For a training class, I needed to address The Windows Problem™. TWP is the my summary of all the non-standard features of Windows in its various inconsistent incarnations.

Any training class that involves "install Python" inevitably involves at least one Windows user who can't get their PATH set correctly. It's …

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...it is amazing how Windows is “special.” Back when ..., special things had to be done for Windows. Python continues the tradition w/ an entire section in its doco titled “3. Using Python on Windows”

I wasn't sure what to make of this.

It appeared that they want …

Or. Why I Hate Windows. For Mac OS X, you download XCode (for free) and you can build anything. For Linux, you use some kind of yum or rpm installer for the developer tools, and you can build anything. For Windows... Pre-built binaries. 😂 And a hope that the version numbers …

The Windows and .NET watch column, February 1, was Python: arbitrarily interesting . For certain classes of "interesting" problems, where interesting is defined arbitrarily, Python is an easy way to tackle those interesting problems.

It picks out a few specific areas of IronPython application, which is good and bad. Good because …

The disruption from Microsoft's failures are only starting to be felt. Check out Frank Hayes' "The Pain Begins " column in the January 26th Computer World.

Corporate IT stubbed Vista. What will it do with Windows 7? And what's the fall-back plan if Windows 7 is bust and Microsoft does an …