Gordaen’s Blog

Continuing my adventure in learning Python, I’ve frequently done searches for Python equivalents to various bits of PHP code and come across a lot of Python programmers bashing PHP. One of the most common Python arguments is that PHP, as a language, is ugly. Personally, I disagree. I think that a dollar [...]

Where I work, the decision has been made to use Python for all new projects. Up until this point, the vast majority of my coding experience has been in PHP. I had been reluctant to take the time to learn Python, because it did not give me anything that I needed, but I [...]

Like anyone who uses computers, I have to deal with a ridiculous amount of spam. My email is double-filtered with Spam Assassin and Gmail, so very little email spam actually makes it to my inbox anymore. Unfortunately, I still have to deal with comment spam on my blog and websites. I decided [...]

The Internet has changed quite a bit in the last 10-15 years. Nowadays, a computer without Internet access is practically useless. My cellphone has more RAM and a faster Internet connection than the computer I used 13 years ago, but I use my cellphone less than that computer. Computers themselves have gone [...]

Sometimes you read a headline and know that the story is going to be perfect blog material; it can be so good that you don’t even have to read the article. The advantage to actually reading it, or at least skimming it, is that you can pick out huge chunks of text to quote [...]