Weekly links – 18th March 2006
Sunday, March 19th, 2006Here is the start of a weekly blog post doing what the original weblogs did, which is provide a short overview of ‘the best of the web’ according to the bloggers opinion. Most of these links can be found on sites such as digg, slashdot and the like. But I think I’ll find this a useful list of things to put up and some people may find it useful.
Python.org is the home of the Python programming language, a powerful scripting language aimed at being easy to learn and use as well as suitably powerful and featureful that it isn’t just another training language. The python website has recently undergone a bit of an update and now looks pretty spiffy. Well worth a look.
A man named Steve Yegge recently put up a rather interesting post about the importance of learning maths for programming. A rather good read and very inspiring. Makes me want to go and actually learn maths properly. It was a subject I did very poorly in at school.
Kororaa is a new distro based upon Gentoo that has been getting quite a bit of press for it’s liveCD recently. It is visually quite stunning. Doesn’t have the best range of programs going, but still looks very nice. I’ve been trying out the liveCD over the weekend and I’m very impressed. Nothing quite beats Knoppix for just working on pretty much anything you throw at it and providing a large amount of functionality, but this is nice. I hope to have my desktop looking as good soon.
trac.lampymud.co.uk has now gone live. It is there in all it’s glory to see, but you’ll have to ask very nicely before you get any privileges to modify. I’m putting it up here mainly incase some one is vaguely interested in what Greg and I are doing with it.