simplicity

24 Nov 2009

Last week, my friend Mike Downey (who now works at Microsoft) tweeted:

Wow - can't believe we are giving away free laptops to all paid PDC attendees! Very cool! #pdc09

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Microsoft may suck at life but they understand developers

Yes, giving away free laptops to developers is desperation. But it's the same desperation every platform vendor should be feeling.

6 Aug 2008

One of the things that I love about Python is that it has all the documentation you ever need (all right, almost) in the code itself. Many moons ago, the very first framework I wrote in ActionScript (Flash 5) used the same technique by placing documentation on the activation objects of functions (and it would be cool to see that practice make a comeback in AS3.)

In Python, to find out what properties an object has, you just ask for a listing. The following, for example, shows you all properties and methods on the os module.

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Python, the learn-at-home language