you’ve got 30 minutes… to write a python script
It’s hard to write code when you’re hungry, and even harder to concentrate when you’ve just ordered pizza from dominos and you know that they will be buzzing any minute. I bet you wished that you had a sweet script that could tell you the status of your pizza in real time. Well today is your lucky day.
Hook into the Dominos status page for info on where your pizza pie is.
ZSFA — My Bear Stearns Employees Need A Job
My Bear Stearns Employees Need A JobWell it looks like things are going very badly at Bear Stearns. As usual, other idiots running the company fucked it up for everyone else, and I really hope someone goes to jail for this shit.
Meanwhile, I have a few employees who work for me that will potentially need new jobs. I’m probably going to need one too, but I’ve gotta look out for my people first.
Right now I’m looking for Ruby on Rails jobs for other people who need to find work. Do not contact me about a job unless it is CTO of a shit kicking company.
Zed Shaw is looking for jobs for his people. Most of whom will soon be ex-Bear Stearns employees. If you know of any positions, click through for his contact info.
Tags: bear stearns, jobs, ruby
Robot Magazine: VEXplorer Contest
Revell, Innovation First, Inc., Robot magazine and SolidWorks Corporation, with Grant Imahara, are pleased to announce the Grant Imahara VEXplorer Robot Challenge. Grant Imahara is one of the hosts of Discovery Channel’s hit television show Mythbusters. He is a special effects expert who has worked on some of the most famous robots in history, such as R2-D2 and The Energizer Bunny, and is the author of Kickin’ Bot, a book that explains how to build your own combat robot. This contest will give 25 robot enthusiasts a chance to compete for a $5,000 scholarship grand prize and various other prizes.
Comanche Hill » The Fallacy of Software Design Documentation
Mark has an excellent post about our recent experiences with documentation and some people who place way too much trust in software design and not enough in testing.
Software design is like herding cats. You’re a lot better off if you just dive in and do what needs to be done now. Planning an attack on a moving and unpredictable target just wastes your time and pisses off the cat.
Extending Vim with Python – Program – Python – Builder AU
If you’re a user of the text editor Vim, chances are you are already impressed with the number and power of its inbuilt features. If you’ve ever tried to add your own functionality to the editor but been turned off by its arcane Vimscript language, then you’ll be pleased to know that Vim now supports internal Python scripting.
You’ll need the python-vim package on ubuntu to get this to work.