My music compositions can be heard at nandoflorestan.bandcamp.com.

What is probably going to happen now that Sun and MySQL belong to Oracle is:

1) They are going to get a world-class boring buzzword-compliant website.

2) All this.

I read some guy talking about Java, "the greatest language in the world", just like an ugly American might say "the greatest country in the world". He has motivated me to become an ugly Pythonista.

3 new persistence options for Python

Tokyo Cabinet is the fastest database available, and it comes in several flavors. Here is how to install it in Ubuntu and use it with Python.

Today I decided to learn Esperanto. Best way to start seems to be Kurso, a gratis program. So...

If you are a Python web developer, here is some stuff you absolutely cannot miss.

How to start the Gnome screen saver immediately

Comparison of tuple, list, dict and object instantiation performance in Python.

I wish Python would have an object database that wouldn't eat up all the RAM.

A Python utility that I have written lets you define backup profiles, filter filenames, compress to zip, tar.gzip or tar.bz2, perform differential, incremental or full backups etc.

Python 2.6.1 is the new stable Python version, but Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex does not come with it. Here is how to install it though.

I vote Pablo Francisco. View these youtubed videos in order:

A quick tip for Hardy users.

Easily switch between applications in Ubuntu Hardy

Maybe it is not quite there yet, but MuseScore is the most promising free-software music score editor I have ever seen. Here is a review. There is a Ubuntu package for it.

A collection of the most interesting things I have been reading about web development.

What are our children being prepared for? "Death Note", seen by millions, is nazi. The story was a huge opportunity for moral thought, but only nazi ethos has a chance to appear.

HTML was a total mess and XHTML fixed that. But now some people want to unfix it.

A transcript from the #sqlalchemy IRC channel

Ben Bangert has decided to remove Buffet from Pylons. Of course it will still support all those templating languages, just not through Buffet.

I made a little experiment and found that using CherryPy 3.1, plus the packages I need, instead of the whole TurboGears stack, can save a lot of RAM.

A recommended way to start developing in Python in Linux

I have published the source code for Webpyte, my new website system, based on the excellent web framework TurboGears. If you are a Python web developer, join us! Here is the project home at Google Code.

In 2007, Python surpassed Perl and C# in popularity, becoming the 6th most popular programming language in the world, according to the Tiobe Index.

The history of the design of Helvetica and the subsequent scourge of Arial is pretty interesting.

Python is a great language for beginners. (It is also a great language for any application: imperative programming, object-oriented programming and functional programming.)

Have you seen this videoclip?

What's wrong with Computer Science research

Same subject: Hackers and painters

http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html

...and since we are in a science fiction mood: Are we living in a computer simulation?

The C2I2 Hypothesis

The Big Rewrite

The Paradox of Choice - Why More Is Less

How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People (And You Can Too)

Practical Common Lisp is a great book by Peter Seibel

Advanced Python

If you install Ubuntu, then Windows in a different partition, the GRUB boot loader vanishes. But don’t panic and reinstall Ubuntu — you can recover it.

Most of them at youtube...

This website contains excerpts from Berlioz's Grand Traité d’Instrumentation et d’Orchestration Modernes.

Grip is a great CD ripper/encoder for GNU/Linux. If you have never tried it, give it a go. It rips to wave using cdparanoia or others. It can simultaneously encode the ripped tracks to the format of your choice. Supports cddb too. Easy to use.

I usually encode to the ogg vorbis format (...)

Autopackage looks very useful for free software developers.

Zero Install is another perspective.

If you ever need to change your Passport / MSN password, you might lose half an hour searching for this function. It is buried here.