Archive 24. December 2004

Charming Python: Implementing "weightless threads" with Python generators - Very interesting concept on how to build extremely resource-efficient threads in Python using generators - cooperative multitasking in 100% Python

Contracts for Python - Programming by Contract in Python based on descriptive metaclasses

Photos confirm abuse in the Bundeswehr

Digital cameras and camera phones will probably now be banned at the German armed forces.

At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.

Microsoft attempts to patent object persistence

Toll - simple and banal object serialization. That sort of thing has existed for years, nonsense for decades. And Microsoft wants to patent it...

At kasia in a nutshell there's the original article.