http://winpdb.org Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:57:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Take a look at these two graphs from "Google Insights". They show an ongoing decline of GPL, GNU and Linux in normalized search volume: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=gpl%2Cgnu%2Cebook%2Copen%20source&cmpt=q http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=linux%2Cpc%2Candroid&cmpt=q One possible interpretation is the decline of the desktop and rise of smart phones and digital consumerism, but note the search term PC is stable in the ... http://winpdb.org/2011/07/the-normalized-decline-of-free-software/ rconsole is a new Python console that you can attach to a running script to inspect and modify its namespace. I hacked it up since I did not find a simple to use alternative to inspect a daemon process. rconsole is included with the rfoo package at http://code.google.com/p/rfoo/. To invoke it within ... http://winpdb.org/2010/09/rconsole-remote-python-console/ Winpdb 1.4.8 was released. This is a maintenance release that fixes compatibility issues with Python 2.7 and 3.x. You can download it from winpdb.org/download. Work on this version was sponsored by Investortools Inc. http://winpdb.org/2010/08/winpdb-148-tychod-released/ Pick a good sized CS book and put it in front of your monitor so that it 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 160,000 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/ 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/