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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 ...

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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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