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Information Software and the Graphical Interface

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Magic Ink. Information Software and the Graphical Interface by Bret Victor. Long, but highly recommended reading. Software design consists of graphic design (drawing pictures) and industrial design (allowing for mechanical manipulation). Information software is for learning an internal model. Manipulation software is for creating an external model. Communication software is for communicating a shared ...

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Couple feedparser bugs fixed

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

If you massively use python feedparser, sooner or later you'll encounter a feed with non-ascii symbols that tracebacks with somethings like UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 10: ordinal not in range(128) or even IndexError: pop from empty list Using latest version from svn helps, but even it has some bugs ...

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