Wednesday 5th May

New: Ryan Gough: A spin-bowler in the making
New: Lightning Pool: Just about the best game of online pool
New: Chickstop: Games for girls who like to play
New: GrokItBot: A Bayesian/AIML instant messaging bot for AIM written in Python

Over and over
I have to acknowledge that what pervades my thinking, what has done for years, is an insistent question.
Do the people who die young, know that they will die young?

Recently I have concluded that they do not know this.
I am now convinced that they were asking the same question as I am. Over and over.

Links
http://samba.org/  rsync PHD thesis
http://www.lerdorf.com/  PHP tips and tricks
http://diveintomark.org/  Software essentials
http://nrg.cs.usm.my/  Essential CLI Tools for MacOS X
http://www.extremetech.com/  The ExtremeTech Guide to Buying HDTV
http://www.gentoo.org/  Learning vi -- the cheatsheet technique
http://simon.incutio.com/  Funky caching explained
http://philringnalda.com/  Half-baked, and a little fried
http://www.kryogenix.org/  Vellum is a server-hosted application to run weblogs for you. It Is like MovableType or b2, in that it is hosted on your web server. And it is written in Python.
http://www.apple.com/  About Holding PatternTurns your idle computer screen into an airplane window, complete with a moving aerial view. Each time the screensaver plays, a unique flight path forms.
http://www.ypsolog.com/  Rsync tutorial
http://www.defamer.com/  Defamer [gossip]
http://www.python.org/  Editor Configuration for Python
http://spe.pycs.net/  Spe is a python IDE with auto-indentation, auto completion, call tips, syntax coloring, syntax highlighting, class explorer, source index, auto todo list, sticky notes, integrated pycrust shell, python file browser, recent file browser, drag&drop, context help, ... Special is its blender support with a blender 3d object browser and its ability to run interactively inside blender. Spe ships with wxGlade (gui designer), PyChecker (source code doctor) and Kiki (regular expression console). Spe is extensible with wxGlade.
http://www.die-offenbachs.de/  eric3 is a full featured Python IDE that is written in PyQt using the QScintilla editor widget. For information on PyQt and QScintilla please see Riverbank Computing. Please note, that eric3 needs Qt 3.1 or newer, PyQt 3.6 or newer (not PyQt 3.9) and QScintilla 1.0 or newer.

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