Posts filed under “Programming”
Travelling down a stack of dependency woes – How to parse HTML in Windows with Python
I was hoping I could parse HTML in Python in Windows. As it turned out, every step I tried ended up leading to another step. In case you are about to lose an entire day dealing with all these steps, I wrote them here. Problem 1: Beautiful Soup isn’t supported anymore Beautiful Soup is the [...]
Which programming language and which framework should I use?
Frameworks like Ruby on Rails are great because they make it easy to write code – in a way that makes sense for the problem of websites. Programming languages are great because they make it easy to write code – in a way that makes it easier for us to understand. In the end though, [...]
Don’t Work on the Wrong Machine
Fred Brooks: Build one to throw away My version: Build every one to throw away. Fred Brooks’ classic The Mythical Man-Month made this observation developing a new piece of software – inevitably, many of the problems that will need to be solved won’t be known until you try to solve them. The first try will [...]
Mulberry: Tribute to the Greatest E-mail Program of All Time
For years I have used and loved Mulberry, perhaps the best e-mail client in existence. So I was greatly saddened to hear that Cyrusoft, the company behind Mulberry, declared bankruptcy a year ago. [more (full article)] I was just as much shocked as dismayed. Mulberry was hawked by so many colleges that I assumed its [...]