December 2009
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Languages this year: Mostly Python and JavaScript, dragged back into some PHP, C# and VBScript, and also dabbled in Haskell and C.
Dec 30th
Flight home from Syd to Melb was cancelled. 4 hours later I’m on a bus from Tullamarine to Avalon. Jetstar you’ve made an enemy for life.
Dec 28th
I can’t believe they’re still finding holes in IIS. It’s like Swiss cheese, please don’t use it. http://bit.ly/4QKG4c
Dec 27th
Committed code on a plane between Melbourne and Sydney - DVCS rocks! Also TortoiseHG is much more slick on Linux than on Windows.
Dec 26th
Watching the Dark Crystal for the first time in 25 years. Creative genius with zero CGI.
Dec 25th
PIL’s ImageOps module is amazing. http://bit.ly/8wmz66
Dec 23rd
First-class and anonymous functions aren’t the same thing. One’s an incredibly powerful language construct, the other is syntactical sugar.
Dec 23rd
VMware on smartphones - virtualisation is so last year, it’s all in the cloud now. Where is my cloud phone?
Dec 7th