Archive for the 'Computing' Category
Pimping out your .pythonrc.py
I don’t wanna be hatin’ on IPython, but I don’t use it. I often favor fairly extreme minimalism in computing. Why install something if you can accomplish the same (or good enough) with what you have available? IPython has quite a lot of features and syntactic-sugar, but it is overkill for my needs. Instead I’ve been slowly crafting my ~/.pythonrc.py […]
How to buy a standard in 10 days
If anyone else out there is stunned that yesterday’s ISO approval of Microsoft’s OOXML document format was not an April Fool’s joke, James Hogarth has an excellent recap of the entire saga entitled How to buy a standard in 10 days.
Unfuckingbelievable. Here’s hoping countries raise formal protests; if not, office document formats will remain incompatible […]
Freebase
I’m working on a project that required a database of video games (name, release date, box-art, etc.). Too much information to input manually, so we began looking for commercial offerings. There are two players in the field: Muze and AMG.
It’s quite obvious they realize they have this market cornered, their sales representatives are the most […]
RestructuredText, Markdown, and Textile (and typography)
When I first discovered Dean Allen’s Textile I thought it was god’s gift to light-weight markup languages. For the next two years I used it everywhere possible, even so much as to write a few school papers (in part) using the syntax. It was trying to use textile for non-web purposes that finally removed my blinders to alternatives.
ReST for Markdown and Textile Users
ReStructuredText is freaking huge so users of lighter-weight markup languages can be easily put off. This is an absolute basics quickref to ReST for those kinds of users. Eye-ball the Closing at the bottom for a bit more perspective.
Headers Just use non-alphanumeric characters to underline (or under-and-overline) your heading. It doesn’t matter what you use, just be consistent with the character […]