Before we begin with programming languages we must talk about our spoken languages (ie: English, French, etc.). Any language is a set of keywords or symbols (words) that mean something understandable by the people who speak the language. For example the following sentence:

I need a cup of Tea.

When I …

Adware is any software application software which makes banners come into sight the whole time it is run. Also, the adware program can install parts that will carry information about the user and its behavior and this work on his PC. Spyware programs are different. The user is asked when …

I maintain/manage some Websites that are developed by outsiders.  Some of them are stuck (for one reason or another) using older tools and software packages … namely Microsoft FrontPage.  In one of the websites, in particular, the previous method of showing a larger/zoomed-in version of an image was to open …

I have an old Linux server that sits, sad and muted, unused in a corner. I decided to blow the dust off of it, and see what I can wrangle out of it.

For the morbidly curious: it’s a Fedora Core 1 install, running on a Dell Poweredge server. …

I’ve seen a lot of these “viral networking” websites that are designed to get traffic to your web site.  I’ve also seen a bunch of websites that help (or at the very least, provide tools) to build your referrals in places like traffic exchanges and other online tools.

Since I’ve run …

I really haven’t spent much time looking around at Python blogs/pages/etc lately.  But, since I’m procrastinating from the whole NaNoWriMo thing, I spent time today doing that.

Easy Python decorators –some examples of creating Python function decorators using the decorator module.
Python 3 Patterns and Idioms –early development of an open source …

I forget where exactly I found this, but the other day I needed a quick Python method to send an HTML email — in my case, it was in response to a Web CGI request, but this example below is usable anywhere.  The bits that need to be changed for …

On Saturday, one of the hard drives in my near ancient Linux server failed. Even though I had back-ups of some of my data, I was lax and hadn’t backed up some of the information for a few of the web sites that reside there.

So, until I can rebuild …

In software engineering, the singleton pattern is a design pattern that is used to restrict instantiation of a class to one object. This is useful when exactly one object is needed to coordinate actions across the system. Sometimes it is generalized to systems that operate more efficiently when only one …

I just saw this article about EVE Online’s Server Model. Very interesting and informative read, and a testament to Stackless’s reliability and usability.