Category Archives: Programming

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Kindle curmudgeoning

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Bob Sutor

I was over at Amazon today looking at technical books and thought “these are really expensive, if they are much cheaper in Kindle form I might be able to justify the price of a device.” As I’ve said before, I … Continue reading →

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links for 2008-02-23

Posted on February 23, 2008 by Bob Sutor

PySoy, a 3D Game Engine for Python “PySoy is a revolutionary cross-platform Python module which enables developers to easily build 3D games.” (tags: python 3d games) A Journey to the Martin Guitar Factory in Nazareth, Pa. – Travel – Escapes … Continue reading →

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links for 2008-02-20

Posted on February 20, 2008 by Bob Sutor

Politics Lessig: I’m considering a run for Congress | Tech news blog – CNET News.com “Confirming weeks of speculation, Larry Lessig, the Stanford University law professor and “free culture” icon, has confessed that yes indeed, he’s considering a run for … Continue reading →

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Building in Second Life, By Example

Posted on January 4, 2008 by Bob Sutor

Over the holidays I started a little project to take some of the building topics that I discussed in my 25 entry blog series on Second Life last year and turn them into an online book. This will allow me … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-09-18

Posted on September 18, 2007 by Bob Sutor

M & A Yahoo buys e-mail software firm Zimbra | Tech news blog – CNET News.com “The Zimbra acquisition, which is expected to be completed by the end of the year, and Yahoo’s $300 million purchase earlier this month of … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-07-17

Posted on July 17, 2007 by Bob Sutor

The Expanding OOXML Embarrassment The Kavi Standard » Blog Archive » Bad Process, Part Deux In the past few weeks, apparently, Microsoft and its allies have been stacking the V1 committee at INCITS. (tags: ooxml microsoft) heise open – Hintergrund … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-05-20

Posted on May 20, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Mark Watson: Why the ODF is better than Microsoft’s document formats “It takes a few lines of Ruby code to process OpenOffice.org document files” (tags: ruby odf)

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links for 2007-05-18

Posted on May 18, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Open Source Latest CrossOver for Linux ups 3D game performance “CrossOver 6.1, released May 15, enables enables Linux PCs and Apple Mactels to run more Windows applications and games, and with higher 3D performance, according to CodeWeavers.” (tags: windows mac … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-05-14

Posted on May 14, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Report: Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents | CNET News.com Again. How tiresome. (tags: microsoft enemiesofopen) CodeGear goes Ruby on Rails route | CNET News.com “CodeGear, the development tool company spun out of Borland Software, has created a product … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-05-12

Posted on May 12, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Smorgasbord At USC, developing game coders | CNET News.com “USC’s video game programs have borne significant fruit, in large part because the school has made it clear to the industry, and to students interested in being part of the industry, … Continue reading →

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Apache, PHP, Mac

Posted on May 11, 2007 by Bob Sutor

The good news is that since the Mac OS X is based on the BSD flavor of Unix, it comes with things like PHP and Apache. The bad news is that both are pathetically backlevel. This is fixable, however, and … Continue reading →

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Java, PHP, AIX

Posted on May 11, 2007 by Bob Sutor

There is a new article up on IBM developerWorks about how to use Java and PHP together on AIX. A quick glance at this indicates that with some tweaking it might even be more broadly applicable to *nix operating systems. … Continue reading →

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Some new things from IBM alphaWorks

Posted on May 3, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Every once in a while I highlight a few of the technologies showing up at the IBM alphaWorks site. I saw this information in the latest alphaWorks newsletter, which you can subscribe to by sending a blank email to alphaworks-subscribe@ibm.email-publisher.com. … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-04-30

Posted on April 30, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Hackety Hack: the Coder’s Starter Kit “One of Hackety Hack’s sincere pledges is to make the most common code very easy and short.” (tags: ruby programming education kids code) Norty Pig » Blog Archive » MS Ultimate 2007 Backward Compatibility … Continue reading →

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Python and ODF

Posted on March 17, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Last year I did several parts of what I called my “Dr. ODF” series on elementary processing of ODF files via the Python programming language. The April 1, 2007, edition of Linux Journal has an article called “Extract and Parse … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-03-10

Posted on March 10, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Open Source Once More unto the Breach: The Best Presentation on Software Business and Open Source I’ve Ever Seen “Brent Williams presented ‘Open Source Business Models: A Wall Street Look at a Wild 2006 and the Prospects for Even More … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-12-15

Posted on December 15, 2006 by Bob Sutor

NewsTrust – Your Guide to Good Journalism – Beta Home (tags: news journalism socialsoftware) Watkins and the Rapiers Eclectic folk rock irreverent music. (tags: music) Scheme (programming language) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “Scheme is a multi-paradigm programming language. It … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-12-11

Posted on December 11, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Open Source Ayende @ Blog – The Problem of Open Source in the Microsoft World “I do not want new products from Microsoft that does the same thing as existing OSS products. They don’t have the same level of maturity … Continue reading →

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How my website was built and how I might do it differently today

Posted on December 9, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Effective January 1, 2010, this site does not use Drupal and instead uses only WordPress. It’s Saturday morning and I thought I would take a bit of time out to discuss how this website is built. It might be instructive … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-11-30

Posted on November 30, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Open Source open…: Closing in on the Tipping Point “The latest of the by-now venerable Evans Data reports on developers shows some pretty amazing trends.” (tags: linux microsoft development software) Novell drops its Hula challenger to Microsoft | The Register … Continue reading →

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Will there be another Java?

Posted on November 19, 2006 by Bob Sutor

This is the second version of this entry. In the first, I think I mentioned Java too often and in ways that opened myself up for criticism as a heretic, even though it wasn’t really my intention to find fault. … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-11-07

Posted on November 7, 2006 by Bob Sutor

open…: Jeff Bezos’ New New Thing – the Old Old Thing The shower mention alone gets this a link. (tags: amazon ibm) Once More unto the Breach: Open Standards, IPR and Innovation Conference, Beijing 2006 Stephe Walli goes to China … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-11-02

Posted on November 2, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Microsoft XML Expert Joins Open-Source Middleware Firm Slightly old news, but always interesting to note where the talent is flowing. (tags: xml webservices career) Zend Moves to Boost PHP Usage “Zend Technologies has announced a series of agreements with major … Continue reading →

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Regarding use of the Python code in my blog entries

Posted on October 12, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Several of my blog entries in the “Dr. ODF” series use Python code to explore how to pull apart ODF files, learn about the contents, and then manipulate the contents. I was asked about the license for this code. This … Continue reading →

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Dr. ODF: Examining OpenDocument Format with Python, Part 7

Posted on October 7, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Last time I looked at a slightly more advanced document that added a bit of formatting to the basic one that only contained the letter ‘x’. In this part I’ll create a more advanced document. We’ll look at the XML … Continue reading →

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Dr. ODF: Examining OpenDocument Format with Python, Part 6

Posted on October 4, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Before we go too much further, I want to show you a little bit of XML processing in Python. As we saw in Part 5, we can open up the content.xml component of our ODF file and retrieve the document. … Continue reading →

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Dr. ODF: Examining OpenDocument Format with Python, Part 5

Posted on October 1, 2006 by Bob Sutor

It’s been several weeks since I last wrote in this series of entries examining what is in an OpenDocument Format file via some Python programming. In that last entry, I examined what was in the manifest file in the ODF … Continue reading →

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Dr. ODF sidebar

Posted on August 31, 2006 by Bob Sutor

While we’re waiting for Part 5 of the Dr. ODF series, I thought I would point out a connection between a recent blog entry by IBM’s Rob Weir and something we examined in Part 4. In his blog entry “A … Continue reading →

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Dr. ODF: Examining OpenDocument Format with Python, Part 4

Posted on August 21, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Last time we got deeper into our OpenDocument Format text file and started using the documentation for the ODF standard to understand what should be in the document. We learned that there can be some variations in the internal structure … Continue reading →

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Dr. ODF: Examining OpenDocument Format with Python, Part 3

Posted on August 19, 2006 by Bob Sutor

In this series of entries, I’m looking at how we can use Python to do some basic examination and processing of the contents of an OpenDocument Format, or ODF, word processing file. The document I’m looking at is almost as … Continue reading →

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