I came across this project today. It’s a version of C Python that is integrated .NET CLR. It basially lets you use managed .NET classes from within Python. For example: from CLR.System.Collections import ArrayList a = ArrayList() a.Add('jeff') a.Add('was') a.Add('here') print a.Count It does seemless translation of most standard Python types to the CLR counterparts. ...

I came across this really good article as to why Open Source software is a safer thing to build your business on. It seems that the company AppGen which made some pretty popular accounting software is closing its doors. This is bad for the clients of AppGen since now they have unsupported software. However the ...

Release 0.9 of jnews.py (Jeff’s News Aggregator). Basically it’s a tool to pull news from a variety of Internet sources and insert it into an HTML page of your choosing (see here for my news page). It’s a very simply way to build your own custom news page with news and comics from the sites ...

Wow my server has had a bad week. On Friday 17th 0530MST, I received a phone call from VSP saying that the company that provided then with connectivity and space (ZooLink) was going bankrupt and shutting it’s doors at 2030MST that evening. They offered to move my server to their backup facility which as it ...

So for months I’ve been, on and off, trying to get my laptop to authenticate using RSA/DSA to my desktop machine but for some reason it never works. I’ve carefully generated RSA1, RSA and DSA keys and placed all the public components in my desktop machine’s authorized_keys but to no avail. Finally I came across ...