One of the newer features of Java as of 1.4 is non-blocking IO, yet it’s very hard to find decent documentation about it or even a simple tutorial. NIO is a very powerful feature but easy to get wrong given it’s complexity. However, James Greenfield, an engineer for Amazon, recently announced that he’d [...]

I came across a blog entry which shows you how to create an IRC bot from scratch in only a few lines of Python, which honestly kind of amazed me even being somewhat fluent with Python. I’ve seen a number of other Python IRC bot packages but have yet to try them out [...]

From del.icio.us, it looks like Yahoo! just created a Python Developer Center which looks to be a good resource on Python as well as tutorials on how to interact with various Yahoo! services using Python.
I’m glad to see that Python is also getting a bit more attention lately despite all of the hype behind Ruby [...]