Comments for Ian Bicking: a blog

Comment on Choosing a License by Denise Sasser

Denise Sasser — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:07:16 +0000

I think the Ogre 3D Rending Engine is a LGPL success story. Many people contribute back, and no one is screwing the author in the engines usage.

Comment on What PHP Deployment Gets Right by Yosifov Pavel

Yosifov Pavel — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:57:32 +0000

Ian, what you think: can Lua (build on C libraries like PHP, but more flexible) man PHP, fill it’s place in Web? Potentially it’s possible. (But Lua, I suppose, aims to accomplish the Web in other way…)

Comment on “Something Must Be Done” by dehande

dehande — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:23:17 +0000

Please adjust your RSS or tags so that this doesn’t show up on planetpython.org.

Comment on Choosing a License by dehande

dehande — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:21:39 +0000

You mentioned that the GPL may become irrelevant because of software-as-a-service. Be sure to check out the Affero GPL (AGPL), a copyleft license specifically designed to address that issue.

Comment on Which way? by dehande

dehande — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:19:23 +0000

The world is getting better in despite of local-anomalies, time-constrained and pipe-narrowed visions. The world is learning beyond human kind misleadings

Comment on Thoughts About the Erlang Runtime by dehande

dehande — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:17:01 +0000

the VM can keep two versions of any module in memory (so that you can finish out processes running code written for an old version)

Comment on My Experience Writing a Build System by dehande

dehande — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:06:28 +0000

So you detect changes and remake things only as necessary. For compilation this might make sense, because you edit code and recompile a lot and it’s tedious to wait.

The pure dependency based is the reason why make is much better tool than say ant, nant, etc…

It’s great when properly written makefile completes in

Comment on Python HTML Parser Performance by Ian Bicking

Ian Bicking — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:08:49 +0000

Well, hopefully you aren’t considering scraping email addresses…? You could look at python-spidermonkey, but the task isn’t all that easy, especially getting document.write to work.

Comment on Python HTML Parser Performance by Jerzy Orlowski

Jerzy Orlowski — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:31:04 +0000

Sorry, but the website formatted example input into html. It was a code in javascript that concatenates some variables to generate an email address.

Comment on Python HTML Parser Performance by Jerzy Orlowski

Jerzy Orlowski — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:27:57 +0000

Is there any way to interpret javascript in Python?

example input:

document.write(’biuro’); document.write(’@inprofi.pl’);