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.
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.
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
Committed code on a plane between Melbourne and Sydney - DVCS rocks! Also TortoiseHG is much more slick on Linux than on Windows.
Watching the Dark Crystal for the first time in 25 years. Creative genius with zero CGI.
PIL’s ImageOps module is amazing. http://bit.ly/8wmz66
First-class and anonymous functions aren’t the same thing. One’s an incredibly powerful language construct, the other is syntactical sugar.
VMware on smartphones - virtualisation is so last year, it’s all in the cloud now. Where is my cloud phone?