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Not to mention that Singapore is slightly southern where it should be, or that Houston is a bit too close to Monterrey, but I’m too picky there.

Found in one of those companies doing website monitoring 24×7, which shall remain nameless. In terms of maps (and geographical knowledge in general) I’ve seen much worse, if you [...]

A comment at the bottom of his own lengthy but otherwise interesting article:

One more important point: I’m surprised that some people seem to think I’m implying some programming studliness from my little 3-day excursion. Not so: any first-year college student or intern, or heck, self-taught dude in his basement, could have done exactly what I [...]

I’ve just installed the excellent wp-super-cache plugin to accelerate things a bit in this blog; today somebody sent one of my pages to reddit and I’ve had more users than usual! - by the way, thanks for coming! :)
Update: I admit, it also has a bit to do with the reading of today’s entry in [...]

This is the documented path to my discovery of PostgreSQL 8.3, which I’ve never used before. Now that MySQL’s community is getting hammered to death by Sun, and thanks to all the good things I’ve heard about it over the years (including enhanced performance on multicore systems and greater scalability), I really wanted to install [...]

Let’s say that you have a vCard file. You can export it from your Mac OS X AddressBook.app, or from any other similar application. Now you need to extract some information from it, namely the e-mails, for spamming your friends with some boring news. Typical.
Enter vobject. This Python library is part of the Chandler effort [...]

Using Python’s own unittest package, here’s a small script that can iterate over your test suite to output a small, quick, nice list of the tests in your application:

import unittest

loader = unittest.TestLoader()
tests = loader.loadTestsFromName(’path.to.your.tests.package’)
for test in tests._tests:
print test._tests[0].__class__.__name__.replace(”Test”, “”)
for method in test._tests:
[...]

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Le 1er juin 2008, l’initiative UDC “pour des naturalisations démocratiques” sera soumise au vote. Son titre semble anodin et faire appel au bon sens. Y aurait-il quelqu’un pour souhaiter des naturalisations antidémocratiques? Rappelez-vous pourtant: le tribunal fédéral a annulé les “naturalisations démocratiques” qu’avait inventées la commune d’Emmen.
Naturaliser à la tête [...]

If you do not know ohcount, you should; the guys at ohloh.net have GPL’d one of their core components, namely the one that allows you to perform source code line counts in your own projects. Neat and useful!
However, the current ohcount distribution (which you can download from this link) does not build out-of-the-box in Leopard. [...]