Sidebar

A most convenient way for browsing docs is using the sidebar (assuming you're using a modern browser). Documentation for several programming languages and xml applications is available as a sidebar.

• Ruby
• Python peps and bugs
• Python documentation
• Html, css, php

Sidebars are available in two forms. Both of which are easily created. You can use XUL to create a sidebar application, this is the most flexible option. You can also create a html page, bookmark it and check the option load it into the sidebar

Who's up for a challenge?

If didn't have anything to do on May 23 you could have spent a day on the google code jam. You can win honour, a few 100 Euro's and a job. Switch to retro mode because we're using old school languages:

The competition is available in three programming languages - Java, C++, and C#.

I also wonder if they have ordinary chairs. (source)

CTP Hell

Are you so smart or am I so dumb. That's the thought I was left with after trying to use Xaml today. The whole afternoon was lost installing, uninstalling and stalled installs waiting for dos popup messages. Being used to central installers like portage, synaptic and Yast, having to install things by hand was like being thrown back a century. I felt better when even the MS bloggers refered to the install procedure as CTP Madness. As it turns out, my task was relatively easy, early adopters have solved the real challenges:

The July CTP of VS.NET does not work with the June CTP of SQL, nor does the June CTP of VS.NET.