http://winpdb.org Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:12:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Pick a good sized CS book and put it in front of your monitor so that is hides the screen unless you sit up straight. http://winpdb.org/2010/03/simple-solution-to-a-classic-problem-in-software-development/ Ever since I discovered Free Software I was haunted by the problem of developing software sustainably. Today I would like to suggest a possible model which may be suitable to individual developers and small business. That is, distributing software using relaxed non Free Software license, combined with releasing each modification ... http://winpdb.org/2010/03/copyright-and-delayed-release/ rfoo is a new Python RPC package which can do 130,000 IPC calls per second on a regular PC. It includes a fast serialization module called rfoo.marsh which extends the Python built in marshal module by eliminating serialization of code objects and protecting against bad input. The result is a ... http://winpdb.org/2010/02/100k-ipc-calls-per-second-in-python/ Someone should slap these guys on the head. Today I visited the Winpdb Google Group and was shocked to see it was swamped with SPAM. I never got notifications for any of that SPAM. So, I thought what the hell, I will clear the mess in a second. I was ... http://winpdb.org/2009/11/google-beta-inc/ jpc is a fast Python JSON RPC package, partially compliant with JSON-RPC version 1 - http://code.google.com/p/python-jpc/ I started jpc trying to figure out why an existing Python RPC package was slow and before long I found myself hacking at a new package. On my 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo laptop it can start/end ... http://winpdb.org/2009/11/enter-jpc/ The world is a giant OS with a mysterious scheduling algorithm. http://winpdb.org/2009/07/scalability/ It is easy to identify a Free Software project. It includes the term "Free Software" in its website. Open Source projects created by corporations, by hackers who reject the ideals of Free Software or by developers who do not know the difference NEVER include the term. Some notable Free Software ... http://winpdb.org/2009/07/the-state-of-free-software/ Programming is like Ice Sculpting. For me programming is an art form. At its best it is driven by muse, involves a technical achievement, and is a form of expression. But as an art form programming is like Ice sculpting. It lasts for 5 to 10 years and then returns ... http://winpdb.org/2009/07/ice-programming/ Where I live the media goes on and on about how The Iranian people is using web technology against its regime - for example Twitter, Youtube, e-mails and also cellular phones, SMS, etc... These technologies are described as giving an upper hand to the people as opposed for example to ... http://winpdb.org/2009/06/revolutionary-technology/ I've got a Core 2 Duo with 3GB of memory running Ubuntu 64 bit and it can barely handle 3 or 4 applications I use for everyday development work. Both memory usage and CPU load are annoyingly high. Firefox has about 5-10 open tabs and needs restarting every day or so ... http://winpdb.org/2009/06/bigfoot-linux/