Everything I wanted to do with EventQueue is done. Except the UI. As previously mentioned I have all the design skills of a de-oculated swamp donkey and whilst I could hack something up to add and modify events it would look ugly and I'd actually like this to success and I think that's far more likely if it's a slick experience right from the get ( Read more... )

Which sort of leads me onto the next thing. Ages ago Paul Mison and Leon Brocard hacked together Scribot.com which did weird things with SOAP (I think Leon was going through a web services phase then) and some sort of hybride dynamic and updated-via-cron-job website.

It's awful, which is weird because they're both good programmers but damn this ( Read more... )

Someone on channel was muttering about transferring all their mail from where it currently was to Gmail and that they didn't want to use Mark Lyon's GML which is, shock horror, in Python.

Usually I'm against not using something just because it's not in your language of choice unless you've got a damn good reason. However when I realised that GML ( Read more... )