Response to June 2012 article: http://warp.byu.edu/site/content/1100
The article is coming up on its first birthday, but it’s on the web, and I found it by mistake while searching for an unrelated topic.
The argument
The argument of the author, a teacher of Java, was that the Django urlconf system is too verbose and [...]
If Java and a language like Python got in a fight, Python would eat the eyeballs of Java, and then spit them out at jobless teenie-bopper Java coders.
Blinded by the magical cross-platform abilities Java presents to its audience, Java coders are hard at work being hard at work. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Python [...]
Here is a line in python that should be recorded for posterity…
Some background. I have a multilingual database where several tables exist. Each table is named after a particular “vocabulary” for my website. For instance, there’s a “forums” table for all the terms that are used for pages related to the forums. The purpose [...]
First off, let me start by saying that I don’t really like Java. We’re working from that assumption, understand?
That being said, I have to work in it every day at ekiwi while we develope web “scrapes” for clients. Our screen-scraper software can utilize Interpreted Java (via Beanshell), Python, JavaScript, VBscript, [...]
So, I’m currently working for eKiwi, which does web data extraction for clients, and also sells software called “screen-scraper” to allow you to extract data from the web yourself.
I recently redesigned their logo, since the old logo was done by an old employee (old as in no longer present, not as in age [...]
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Tim Valenta
Amateur at everything, coder, UI designer, musician, and writer. I break things apart and re-program them from scratch to learn exactly which problems people have solved in the past. I write for NaNoWriMo, and I'm nearing the self publication of a short story called Highway.
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