All blog posts tagged with python

Throwing Down the Gauntlet

Posted August 8, 2009

I'm throwing down the gauntlet to other language/app developers. For my place of work, I developed a Java Applet for uploading multiple files to a server. Sure, you can do this with other technologies to a certain degree (selecting multiple files at once in Web 2.0 isn't really possible, is it?) but…

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Understanding by Doing

Posted July 20, 2009

Considering my fondness for language bashing (particularly, when it comes to such little programming gems as Perl, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, Modula-2, Ada, Haskel, CAML to name a few that I think are terrible) I decided that if I'm going to have an opinion of a language, I'd better be able to back …

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Why I Admire PHP

Posted July 13, 2009

I finally decided today that even if I may not like PHP, I certainly admire it. It's etched out a very good business for itself, and continues to flourish, despite calls of it's demise at the hands of Ruby (much like the calls of demise of Java).

One of the things I admire about it is that it doesn'…

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Why Does Everyone Think Java Is Dead?

Posted July 6, 2009

One of my biggest pet peeves is when self-proclaimed geniuses (I'm looking at you Guido van Rossum and Yukihiro Matsumoto) bash Java for what they perceive as shortcomings (whilst boasting about how wonderful their own languages are). As if that wasn't bad enough, this invariably leads to claims of …

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