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Bad Ideas From the Power Company

January 2, 2014 19:44:34.887

My local power company sent me some helpful tips on lowering my power bill:

Yeah, let me replace the bulbs I can see by with useless CFL's that don't last any longer, and provide crappy light. Meanwhile, that last suggestion looks like a real winner right about now:

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PY 4U 32: List Comprehensions 2

January 2, 2014 11:15:34.233

Today's Python 4 You goes back to list comprehensions,a nd goes into more depth on them. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:

List Comprehensions

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ST 4U 513: Prolog in Pharo

January 1, 2014 10:10:29.457

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at a small Prolog interpreter built in Pharo. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:

Prolog in Pharo

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PY 4U 31: Lambda Functions

December 31, 2013 12:53:31.506

Today's Python 4 You looks at lamda functions in Python. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:

Lambda

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ST 4U 512: Refactoring in Pharo

December 30, 2013 11:20:42.576

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at the refactoring support in Pharo. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:

Refactoring

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Holiday Weekend for the Podcast

December 29, 2013 12:54:56.457

No podcast today - due to the holiday weekend and a general "slow down" mindset here at the end of 2013 :)

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ST 4U 511: Positioning Widgets in WB Pro

December 27, 2013 10:14:10.973

Today's Smalltalk 4 You looks at the positioning tools in WindowBuilder Pro. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:

Positioning Widgets

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Google Angry About Being Made to Look Bad

December 26, 2013 12:28:20.558

I don't much care for SEO tactics, but hey - it's a matter of finding holes in an algorithm. Which is why I find smackdowns of this sort even worse:

Google hit back hard today after it learned lyrics site Rap Genius had been using dubious SEO tricks to attain top spots in search results. Now RapGenius.com doesn’t appear on the first page of results for a search of “Rap Genius,” and popular queries like “Jay-Z Holy Grail Lyrics” don’t bring up the startup like they used to.

Gosh forbid they figure out how to plug the hole; better to just pull out the howitzer and let fly....

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PY 4U 30: VarArgs 3

December 26, 2013 10:05:03.884

Today's Python 4 You continues looking at Variable Argument functions in Python. You can watch part 1 and part 2 in the archives. If you have trouble viewing it here in the browser, you can also navigate directly to YouTube. To watch now, click on the image below:

VarArgs

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