CSS allows you to specify so many bizarre graphical properties, that I couldn't believe it doesn't support drawing simple lines. Well, it doesn't. And googling for how to draw a diagonal line was not effective. The closest result I got was how to draw a... View Article
Open-source acts like it's got good programmers to spare, and it doesn't
Continuing that post. Before I go on, I wish to make 2 corrections to the code provided in the last post: I think that the grammar for COMMENT is incorrect (in the original too). It requires comments to always end with a new-line. I changed... View Article
For a while now, I've been writing a code editor for Python. I know there are quite enough of these, but I wanted something a bit different. I decided to write it in C#, and I'm glad I did - C#'s GUI is really easy... View Article
The main advantage of having no readership is that I have very few restrictions on what to write about. (the main disadvantage is obvious) So in this post, I would like to tell a short zen story - Art On my first drawing lesson (sketching,... View Article
Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those! -- The Zen of Python (PEP 20) by Tim Peters In the quest for order and heirarchy in our code, namespaces are our chief weapon (along with fear and surprise). Namespaces come in... View Article
Hello readers, and welcome to my new blog. Inheritance (of OO) is a tricky business. When creating a sub-class, nothing clear is said about the purpose of this new sub-class, or the relation between it and its parent. One is forced to guess, based on... View Article