Just ran into an interesting site, Kevin Altis's Weblog. He's working with Python, PythonCard, and apparently Jython, which are all things I want to look into. Especially PythonCard, after Patrick Logan's talk at DevCon, where he advocated building easier frameworks, like Hypercard. I'm very interested in this lately. I hadn't heard of PythonCard before tonight, but now it's on my list.
I attempted to install FreeBSD on an old machine at home today. 3 tries, no luck. The first time I had a bad mouse, got into X configuration and hit a screen I couldn't get out of without a mouse. Next 2 tries, I ended up with an image that wasn't bootable. Now, I can be kinda dumb sometimes, but laying down a boot sector is a pretty basic part of an OS install. Seems to me that that's something that shouldn't be subject to user error. OTOH, when I was a software tester at Tandy, I got a reputation for being able to break anything; maybe it's just my touch.
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Dimitre Novatchev emailed me about his "The Functional Programming Language XSLT", pointing out 2 new articles "Dynamic Functions using FXSL: Composition, Partial Applications and Lambda Expressions" and "Casting the Dice with FXSL: Random Number Generation Functions in XSLT". Haven't had a chance to read them yet, it's on my list now.
I guess Jon Udell took some heat for the comments on the Eating the XML Dogfood article. I know I've worked with some XML schemas that clearly weren't designed by anybody who actually had to use them.