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Announcing PyTem: Simple Python Templates. PyTem implements a "Python-Server-Pages"-like template engine for Python 3 . The PyTem application is,. Small - a single python file. Simple - you can learn the syntax of templates and/or the PyTem API in just a few minutes. Hackable - readable source code, so feel free to adapt it to your own python project. PyTem's current status is "Alpha", but it is being used for real work on a daily basis. The Boys Book of Electronics. Which had a chapter on Giant E.

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What Would That Character Do? Just Ask.

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What Would That Character Do? You're writing a novel. One of your characters is not right. Let's call her Sara. You can feel it, but you're not sure what's wrong. Sara's dialog doesn't sound like her. She's doing things that don't make sense. Is she who you thought she was? Does any of this sound familiar? Do you have questions like:. What does Sara really care about? It's not that you don't know Sara at all, but as the story developed, she did something unexpected, and now you're disoriented.

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My Computer History

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My apologies to the hard core: I’ve chosen accessibility over strict accuracy in an attempt to address an audience beyond the computer intelligentsia.). When I was at Westdale Junior High School in Baton Rouge in 1960, I came across. The Boys Book of Electronics. Which had a chapter on Giant Electronic Brains . I’ve been hooked on computers ever since. I saw an IBM 650. At LSU when I was in high school, but my first chance to interact with a real computer was programming the IBM 7094 Model 2. That manual...

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The Maple Leaf Rag V

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The Maple Leaf Rag V. The publication party for the Maple Leaf Rag V. Was held at the Maple Leaf Bar in New Orleans on August 10th. The auspiciousness of the evening being a "Super Moon" surprised no one. According the the New Orleans Historical web site. The Maple Leaf Rag V. John has published the last four Maple Leaf Rag anthologies. His work has been a significant addition to the artistic life of New Orleans and, taken together, represents an amazing historical record of the New Orleans poetry sc...

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New Orleans

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All Saints Day at the Maple Leaf Bar. The afternoon before I leave New Orleans, I arrive at the Maple Leaf minutes after three, the start time of Nancy Harris's Sunday readings, but there's no sign of poetry. For the moment the poets have joined the football fans. The Saints are playing the Giants in the Super Dome, it's All Saints Day,. The New Old New Orleans: Los Po-Boy Citos. Katrina was a man-made, not a natural disaster. In New Orleans we love to complain about Katri. Sounds Of New Orleans. Was hel...

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Sounds Of New Orleans

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Sounds Of New Orleans. What you hear in New Orleans is like no other city’s sounds. Thanks to the Internet, you can listen to life in New Orleans wherever you happen to be. According to the latest Census Bureau estimate, the current population of New Orleans is just under 379,000, yet we have three public stations. All three can be heard live over the internet. If you’re thinking of visiting New Orleans or if you know what it means to miss New Orleans. Http:/ www.wwoz.org/. The daily schedule is peppered...

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The New Old New Orleans: Los Po-Boy Citos

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The New Old New Orleans: Los Po-Boy Citos. Katrina was a man-made, not a natural disaster. If that statement doesn’t fit your comfortable idea of the catastrophe , then I direct you to the many articles on the subject, like this one written on the storm’s fifth anniversary by Time. Fortunately the city usually manages to change the attitudes of the clueless among the newcomers rather than allowing the well meaning but misguided to ruin the city with poorly aimed improvements . New Orleans loves being its...

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Elixir, Making the Revolution Fun

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Elixir, Making the Revolution Fun. Most of us write software in environments with ridiculous deadlines. We don't have time to investigate every new thing. My purpose in this article is convince you that Function Programming Immutable Data Massive Parallelism. Which I will henceforth abbreviate as FIMP. Is not just another new thing, but is an important collection of new technologies and a reasonable and obvious response to the fundamentally-changed/changing computing environment. Makes FIMP feel natural.