Tag Archives: Python

Daily links for 05/18/2011

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Bob Sutor

Richard Dawkins’s science book for kids, illustrated by Dave McKean – Boing Boing “Richard Dawkins has a new kids’ book coming out in October called The Magic of Reality, which explains just how gosh-darned awesome the actual scientifically explained world … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 04/28/2011

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Bob Sutor

Review: The best Linux book available | TechRepublic “A thick, heavy book with the equally weighty title A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming may be the single most important Linux book you ever buy.” tags: linux … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 11/07/2010

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Bob Sutor

Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python | Wisdom and Wonder “Costanza asked Sussman why MIT had switched away from Scheme for their introductory programming course, 6.001. This was a gem. He said that the reason that happened was because … Continue reading →

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ApacheCon keynote presentation

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Bob Sutor

Here are the slides I used today during my ApacheCon 2010 keynote. The presentation was called “Data, Languages, and Problems” with the abstract Much research work over the next decade will be driven by those seeking to solve complex problems … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 08/11/2010

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Bob Sutor

Open source Ruby, Python hit rocky ground at Microsoft – IronPython, IronRuby, Microsoft, .net – Techworld “Microsoft’s open source IronRuby and IronPython projects are shrouded in a dubious future as the last of the full-time IronRuby developers departed the company … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 04/22/2010

Posted on April 22, 2010 by Bob Sutor

WhiteHouse.gov Releases Open Source Code | The White House “As part of our ongoing effort to develop an open platform for WhiteHouse.gov, we’re releasing some of the custom code we’ve developed. This code is available for anyone to review, use, … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 04/01/2010

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Bob Sutor

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 Expands Technology Innovation Spanning Physical, Virtual and Cloud Environments – MarketWatch “Red Hat, Inc. (RHT 29.27, +0.34, +1.18%) , the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the availability of the fifth update … Continue reading →

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On highly customizing that open source code

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Bob Sutor

Several weeks ago at OSBC I posed a serious of “hard questions” about open source software. They weren’t meant to demean it, of course, but were really to say that software for the enterprise needs to be held to very … Continue reading →

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Daily Links for Thursday, January 7, 2010 – Morning Edition

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Bob Sutor

Open Source Munich administration switches to OpenDocument FormatThe H Open Source: News and Features Also see my blog entry “Update on sharing documents”. According to a 2009 development review that the deputy project leader Florian Schießl has posted on his … Continue reading →

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