Not much time for interesting posts of my own these days, busy
studying history for my final oral exam on Wednesday. Meanwhile,
here’s what interested me in the blogosphere today.
- Interesting
blog entry from Frederik Lundh on the role of Trackers in the
Widget Construction Set
for Python. I might need to write some GUI code soon, maybe this would
be the way to go. -
Aaron Wormus worries
about the embedded database SQLite and bad security practises (Hint:
Keep the SQLite database file OUT of the web root) - Brad Adams posts slides
and demos from his BorCon presentation. I
think Borland might have a winner on its hand with the next version of
Delphi, since it seems it will allow both classic Win32 programming
and .Net programming, filling the niche that VB left with
VB.Net. There’s a lot of people that wants to write code that runs on
machines without the .Net runtime, and currently the only Microsoft
option for that is C++. At the same time, people want to have the
opportunity to do .Net development as well. Delphi’s might be the best
option for these people. - Sam Ruby notices some character set mismatch in a blog post from
Cory
Doctorow, and dissects it in great detail. Almost as required a
reading as Joel Spolsky’s much linked developers
guide to Unicode. - David Warnock suggests
that python is a good language for teaching kids how to code. I’m
wondering how good Squeak
works for this, seemingly as it’s designed for this and similar
purposes? - Edward W. Felten suggests,
like Lessig
did a few weeks ago, that online porn shold be labeled with an
”adultsonly” or ”porn” tag. I said
it then, and I’ll say it again: Take a look at PICS, the w3c standard that’s
designed precisely for this and similar problems. Maybe the problem is
that there is no ”standard” rating vocabulary with
definitions for ”porn” or ”adultsonly”. Or maybe it’s the fact that
only XML standard geeks can understand that last document. I think
PICS need an evangelist quick, or others will reimplement it,
badly.
