... If you are satisfied with this outcome, more power to you ;-) If want ammunition in favor of Perl: 1. Python bytecode is really easy to decompile, waaay...
... I see. Well, you can tell what a reference is by how it is used. ->[], ->{}, - ... one can pass non-scalar variables (@array, %hash, etc.) to functions by ...
I don't understand you Shlomi. By now you should know that any comparison between Perl and Python just leads to some Python fan pulling out the "Perl is not...
In accordance with its annual tradition, the Israeli Free and Open Source Software will hold the August Penguin conference ( http://august.penguin.org.il/ )...
Hi all! Today I wrote and published a feature in my homepage blog about the termination of my AdSense account, after my April's Fools Day feature got featured...
... I would be interested in a separate presentation about SCons. Don't know about the other club attendees, but if you have the will and the time, then I say ...
Hi all! The "Programming Red Flags" meeting had a high attendance, and was generally very successful. Thanks to all the people who came and special thanks to...
Hi all! The Tel Aviv Open Source Club invites everyone to a talk by Yaron Meiry (Sawyer) about "Programming Red Flags" - on Sunday, 28-June-2009. (Notice the ...
The following paper is a nice summary of opinions about this classical computer science problem: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/papers/poll.pdf And as I was...
Hi all! I recently created a thread-enabled version of Freecell Solver, that uses several solver instances in separate threads. I'd like to get some indication...
Spotted on LWN.net: http://code.google.com/p/psutil/ Reading from it: {{{{{{{{{ psutil is a module providing an interface for retrieving information on running...
Hi all! Tomorrow (6-May) Herzelinux (the Herzeliya Open-source club) will meet to hear Gilad Ben-Yossef's talk about "The Google Android Phone Stack". It will...
I recently spotted this on Freshmeat.net: http://www.valentina-db.com/ It's a database server that claims to be very fast. It's object-relational. Here's what...
Hi all! Today I had to some work on one of my open-source projects on Windows. After using the default console window for a while, I thought I wanted to die....
Today I was debugging a development branch of Freecell Solver (I see Muli is preparing the graggers) and had to deal with a problem that the scanning dump ...
A bit late, but better late than never: http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/optimizing-code-for-speed/ This is an essay I wrote about optimising...
Hi all! (for linux-elitists : I'm sorry about my last post about the KDE 4 rant. I thought it was acceptable, but it turned out to violate this list's...
See the forwarded message below for the question. You can find my response here: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/sanfrancisco-pm/2009-February/002161.html ...
See: http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=1845 http://www.fsf.org/news/reoppose-tls-authz-standard for a call-for-action...
Hi all! I started to coordinate the Israeli participation in the Google Summer of Code program for this year. For this end, I created a page on the wiki: ...
Hi all! I ran out of books to read, and while I can buy some more, there's always the more cost-effective way of borrowing them with fellow mongers. Here is an...
As I was working on a new Greasemonkey script today, I needed a way to parse the date from a string, and format it into DD-MM-YYYY. Parsing the date turned out...
Hello all I have this domain, hackers.org.il, and I'm not doing anything special with it. If any of you want to define anything under it, feel free to write me...
