archive.tylerdave.com All the stuff from when Dave was actually called Tylerdave.

I’m trying to get a stripped-down version of Python 2.2 installed in my home directory on my web host.

Megan is asleep on the couch.

How are you spending your New Year’s Eve?

For some reason that I can’t recall, I was looking for a definition of a Turing tar-pit.

That’s when I found The Turing Tarpit, a collection of links to programming languages that exemplify the ‘far too painful to use’ portion of the definition.

That led me to the even more in-depth Esoteric Topics in Computer Programming.

You have to be a geek to appreciate.

I finally broke down and signed up for a Safari account today. Safari gives you online access to tons of computer books by O’Reilly and other publishers. For $10/month you get access to up to five different books.

I started doing some development with Zope this week so I wanted a good book on the subject, but I couldn’t justify spending $35-$50 on a book that I may not use that much. Safari seems like the perfect solution.

If you want to try it for yourself, you can get a 14-day free trial and cancel before it ends.

For a while I’ve wanted to put together a list of all of the books that I own, to make a sort of catalog for myself. I really didn’t want to write down all the info for each book and I also thought that having cover images would be cool. I couldn’t think of any nice and easy way to do this until I stumbled upon Amazon Web Services. The interface w/ Amazon is really simple (they allow SOAP or XML over HTTP) and I’ve been looking for some practical use for my beginner’s knowledge of XML. So far, I have a form to search Amazon for books and display the result. I will be refining it more in the coming days.