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You’re on Windows, so the standard way to do things is to hack until you get the behaviour you want… ;-)

Eric Brunel, Quote of the Week on the DDJ Python-URL

mainframe n. An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete companies serving billions of obsolete customers and making huge obsolete profits for their obsolete shareholders. And this year’s run twice as fast as last year’s.

from The Devil’s IT Dictionary

Why PC:s crash and mainframes don’t From Byte back in 1998. I googled for it and found it via my own link to it two years ago.


If you’ve done any Web or UI design, or even thought about it much, you should say, “Oh, right, I know what that is” to most of these patterns. But a few of them might be new to you, and some of the familiar ones may not be part of your usual design repertoire.

UI Patterns and Techniques


Jörg notes that Mark Pilgrim has written a Python library for XFML. Don’t worry - Mark explains what XFML is, too.

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