Month: October 2001

Joel on Software – Working on CityDesk, Part Four

We used to write algorithms. Now we call APIs.
Nowadays a good programmer spends a lot of time doing defensive coding, working around other people’s bugs. It’s not uncommon to set up an exception handler to prevent your code from crashing when your crap library crashes.
Times have changed. Welcome to a world where the programmer who knows how to tap into other people’s brains and experience using the Internet has a decisive advantage.

Which is one of the strengths of the whole Linux, GNU, BSD, OpenSource, etc. world. Not only are there rich APIs for use but one has the choice of coding around problems or fixing them yourself.

Joel on Software – Working on CityDesk, Part Four

We used to write algorithms. Now we call APIs.
Nowadays a good programmer spends a lot of time doing defensive coding, working around other people’s bugs. It’s not uncommon to set up an exception handler to prevent your code from crashing when your crap library crashes.
Times have changed. Welcome to a world where the programmer who knows how to tap into other people’s brains and experience using the Internet has a decisive advantage.

Which is one of the strengths of the whole Linux, GNU, BSD, OpenSource, etc. world. Not only are there rich APIs for use but one has the choice of coding around problems or fixing them yourself.

Possiable new look for fozbaca.org. Let me know what y’ll think. Oh, pretty much taken from glish’s blogger template.

Possiable new look for fozbaca.org. Let me know what y’ll think. Oh, pretty much taken from glish’s blogger template.

The MTV Chronicles in the words of Adam Curry.

The MTV Chronicles in the words of Adam Curry.

Anygui: Generic GUI for Python

The purpose of the anygui project is to create an easy-to-use, simple, and generic module for making graphical user interfaces in Python. It’s main feature is that it will work transparently with many different GUI packages on most platforms. (A list of quite a few GUI packages may be found here. The goal would of course be to support all of them…)

Now how about Generic GUI for every language.

Anygui: Generic GUI for Python

The purpose of the anygui project is to create an easy-to-use, simple, and generic module for making graphical user interfaces in Python. It’s main feature is that it will work transparently with many different GUI packages on most platforms. (A list of quite a few GUI packages may be found here. The goal would of course be to support all of them…)

Now how about Generic GUI for every language.