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Fame And Fortune
Well, the Jython Book celebrated it’s fifth anniversary with a royalty statement showing that it had sold the grand total of two copies over the previous quarter.
Posting to Blogger via Ruby
TextMate has what seems to be a very nice blogging bundle for programmatically sending posts to your blogging engine of choice. Except that it doesn’t work for the new Blogger API. Or at least it didn’t the last time I checked. Mostly I just wanted to see if I could...
Rubies in My Coffee
Now two of the big Java IDE’s are promoting Ruby language tools as a big thing. IntelliJ has a plugin in early beta, and NetBeans is also making a big deal of their new early beta support. Eclipse has had a Ruby/Rails plugin for about a year or so.
Wow, There Are Comments
It’s true – the way to get comments on your blog is to mention Apple… I do something like one substantive post in three months, and then two apple posts in 48 hours, and bang! Four comments within a day. I’m surprised, not least because I really wasn’t sure anybody...
Apple Dot Net
What is it about us tech fanboys and Apple… I’ve always found them interesting, even when I wasn’t a regular Mac user. Infuriating, sometimes. But interesting.
Apple Summer of 95
As I may have mentioned here, back in 1995 I spent three months as a summer intern at Apple HQ in Cupertino.
GWT part 3 and 4
Sorry for not mentioning this earlier, but part three of the GWT series is now up on the IBM site at:
Clearing The Decks
A collection of small things, half-finished posts, and pure whatnot that hopefully will lead to more posts in the future:
GWT Article Now Online, Part Two
The second part of my IBM Developerworks series on Google Web Toolkit is now online at http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-ad-gwt2/. This one focuses mostly on the Derby database, and features a really quick and dirty database-to-Java conversion tool.
Playing in the Sandbox
This message showed up in the Manning Sandbox forum for wxPython In Action. After saying some nice things about the book, the poster has some suggestions: