so, I installed Python26 with an eye to writing and formatting some docs with Sphinx.

The python documentation used to be maintained with LaTex, but no one prints anything anymore.

Just use the easyinstaller!

It is not possible to install the easy installer (so easy it is) for 2.6, using the easy installer installer. However, there are easy installer executables for 2.3 2.4 and 2.5. If you catch my drift. Maybe the easy guys are going to skip this and go straight to being easy with 3.xx. Certainly that's what I'd do, in their position.

Fortunately there is a program called ez_setup.py. If you run THAT, it installs the easy installer, and the easy installer will install modules from .egg files. Whatever they are. I admit downloading one, though, so I must have an inkling.

Running ez_setup is done like this:

python tools\scripts\ez_setup.py


After that (with the .egg file in my \python26\eggs folder, a folder I created just to keep life organized), life is as easy as typing


easy_install eggs\Sphinx-0.6.3-py2.6.egg


and waiting.

You can easily find the sphinx web page by searching for "Python Sphinx", which is a good thing, because no one is going to remember "sphinx.pocoo.org," are they?

After all this, I notice that easy_installer puts sphinx in a scripts folder, so I make sure to add c:\python26 and c:\python26\scripts to my windows environment, and all is well with the command line world.

Did I mention that Sphinx has templates?

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Big Spaceship have 4 co-located cross-disciplinary teams (replacing a form in which developers sat together, artists sat together, etc.), each team in one row of this open-space office. It works unbelievably well.

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Actually, the presenter said under these settings his particular clip "still looked like ass", and he upped the bitrate to 4Mbps with much better results

Good examples were given of how they failed to do this in an Adobe Media Player ("may it rest in peace" -- exact quote) project.

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Ode to Joy.  1000 ukeleles.  'Nuff said.

Inviato da iPod

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Last year at SD West, Neil Ford gave a talk "Improve your code", in which he advocated test-driven design. The acronym (il acronimo) "TDD" gets a new meaning!

10. Change your perspective and consider "antiobjects." An antiobject is a kind of object that appears to do the opposite of what we think it should do, Ford explained. The object metaphor sometimes impedes the solution "by making us try to create objects that are too inspired by the real world."®

Disclaimer: The registered trademark symbol (above) does not indicate an actual registered trademark.

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Actually, the "Kindle" books you can read on your iPhone or iPod touch are amazing! Leonardo, Jane Austen, the Great One (Sir Plum), and even free recipes. All for .... no money down, no dollars a month!

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Above is a clip from USA Today's iPhone app. Traditional media may not be ahead of the curve, but they certainly are aware of the today's media trends. A more-cynical view sees Facebook, Texting, and Twitter as big-media driven. The innocent button "share article" might legitimately be re-labelled "increase THIS app's share of collective attention"

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