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Apparently, Eve Online is written in Stackless Python.

Which should, in theory, make it easier to port to other platforms.

Perhaps.

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How cool is this.

Disctop

When you insert a CD into your iMac G5/iMac Core Duo, this makes it so the disc appears “in” the desktop.  Not the icon representing the disc, but an image that looks like the disc.  It’s in sync with the disc as it goes in, apparently, and looks just like the disc is actually appearing on the desktop…

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I’ve never been much of a fan of PowerPoint.  I’d used it a little at University, and then this year I actually had cause to have to use it again.  I have been teaching Stage 2 (final year of High School) Information Technology Studies, and this is a content-rich subject.  Rather than what I’ve been teaching in the past, which is more task-based, this actually requires me to act a little more like a teacher than a facilitator.

So, I’ve built a few PPT presentations over the past couple of months.  Mostly it has been okay, but today I started playing with Keynote.  This is a much faster tool for creating presentations than PowerPoint, but I haven’t had cause to actually use it in any way that is different to how I would use PowerPoint.

There is one neato feature: export to SWF.  Which means I can still create the presentation on a Mac, and easily export it to work on either a website or a local machine, of basically any vintage.

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I’ve been playing with (and loving) Komodo Edit for a few days, and I’m about to try Komodo IDE. Basically, for one reason: debugging. Particularly for teaching kids how to code, I think being able to step through a program line by line, and see all of the variables and their effects would be useful. I assume that Komodo IDE can do this (it’s being downloaded as we speak). I’ve managed to get some buttons to help with using Komodo Edit working, however there is one thing I’d love to be able to do, and that’s end the currently running script if it is running before attempting to execute the next one.