OddThinking

Do we really need to operate?

In which Julian tries to choose a data-structure with a low constant time, in a low constant time.

The first obligation when faced with coding standards and style guidelines is to argue about, moan about and mock the appalling choices made by the so-called developers who came up with a style that is guaranteed to turn your code into an unreadable, unmaintainable mush.

For the modern Windows Python programmer, stuck with old libraries:

PyXML 0.8.4 for Python 2.6, Windows Installer (1,006 KB)

Use Case Name

Death of Computer User

This post describes the internals of my D600 synch application.

I start with a reveal of the how the trick works, for those readers who just want to see how such a miraculous thing could be possible.

This month, after another frustrating synching experience with Samsung PC Studio, I decided to write my own D600 phone interfacing software.

OTTF (short for One Two Three Four) is a simple single-person puzzle game.

I re-use my Game Framework to solve it.

Another puzzle solved with the same architecture as before, but this time, with added code re-use.

I have a Object-Orientation question, related to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. I suspect it will have a simple “here is the idiom everyone uses for this situation” type answer, but I haven’t found it. Here’s a fictional piece of software that demonstrates my problem.