I was checking out Tauber’s Pinax, and came across VirtualEnv for the first time. Those are two cool projects.
However, building PIL on Cygwin Python 2.5 yields the following error message:
unable to remap C:\cygwin\bin\tk84.dll to same address as parent
Thanks to the power of Google, DataHammer has already found a resolution

C:\>cd \cygwin\bin
C:\cygwin\bin>ash
$ ./rebase -b 0×1000000000 tk84.dll

A Japanese publication has a very nice writeup about Lars Bak’s V8 engine (in English) Why is Google’s new V8 Javascript Engine so fast – Nikkei Electronics Asia
I even learned new words like “Premonomorphic”

Note to self. If I see another error involving NOEXPAND check these
1) Make sure server is running SQL 2005
2) Make sure the view has WITH SCHEMABINDING in the DDL (i.e. I need to check my upgrade scripts, … in reverse order)

Tom Gleeson aka Goban Saor has an interesting perspective on how well SQLite acts as a general table store which can then be used in OLAP and Excel. He describes the SQLite as the “MP3 for databases”, and I think he comes pretty close to the mark on this.
What’s there to stop anyone from [...]

Here’s the configuration page if my memory fails me in the future
https://www.mynetfone.com.au/media/support/downloads/sipura-spa2000/config/config.html

I came across Almost Perfect via Hacker News, a candid first-hand account of the rise and fall of WordPerfect.
It is so interesting to see how WordPerfect was blind its impending death. I am not singling out WordPerfect here, rather as a theme how corporations are all blind to their eventual death. The singular theme [...]

I was having a lot of problems getting the simplest test case below to run without throwing an odd exception:

import javafx.stage.Stage;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.layout.*;
import javafx.ext.swing.SwingTextField;
import javafx.ext.swing.SwingButton;

Stage {
title : "MyApp"
scene: Scene {
width: 200
height: [...]