linux.conf.au 2005 - 3 weeks to go

Only 3 weeks to go until the coolest-of-all-conferences happens - linux.conf.au - this year in the nation's capital, Canberra.

According to their webpage, there's only 22 places left. You'd better hurry if you were leaving your registration to the last minute! :-) Hope to see you there...

Personally I'm looking forward to the miniconfs, which I've missed out on seeing the last 2 years for differing reasons. Having some less formal chat and hack sessions will be great. Also catching up with people and talking about all the cool stuff that's happening, especially in the free software desktop arena. Oh, and I'm looking forward to getting this over and done with :-) Please, only ripe fruit.

tech/linux-australia/lca2005 | 25 Mar 2005 | #

IronPython makes a release, but Boo is fun

So Jim Hugunin made a new IronPython release here after a rather long break, and despite repeated calls to kick start developemnt again over the past 6 months.

In the mean time, I moved to Boo instead.

I was hoping that I'd still have time to track and play with IronPython, but now that I have some investment in Boo, that might just not happen. IronPython is *real* python, which is a major bonus, but Boo is *almost* python and gives me static typing, my biggest complaint against python. It's a bit of a toss up which one is better technically. But, IronPython has just moved to a Microsoft Shared Source licence, so the final answer is now clear - it's one of right and wrong. Boo, licenced under BSD/MIT, wins hands down. Sorry IronPython, you are destined to be history now.

Both projects have sparse documentation, so DumpAssembly has been quite valuable.

tech/code | 25 Mar 2005 | #