Saturday, July 25, 2009

losing my geek cred

Finding pydev + eclipse a decent IDE for playing around with python. That place in my heart used to be held by Vim.

The very new IronPython integration in pydev is surprisingly functional.

interesting dynamic languages on .net talk from 2008

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

argh

why did it take 10+ years for us to realize our round-to-nearest-100th algorithm is busted (on windows)?

Not sure why the original developer cast to 'long' rather than using some modulo division on the floating point number. Stupid windows 32bit long.

And, we can't do the easy solution of 'long long' because of incompatibility with the HP-UX C-runtime on the old-as-dirt patch levels some of our customers refuse to move from.