..bits & bytes teleported

I love the Firefox 3.0 print dialog which allows printing directly to PDF. (a sub-directory 'PDF' will be created in your home directory- like /home/work/PDF) where all the PDFs will be stored.

Here are some links to videos and URLs I randomly bumped into on a Sunday. Yes, I had fun:

• Anatomy of a Debian package
• Learning MOTU - Getting Started
• Learning MOTU - Packaging 101 Part 1
• Learning MOTU - Packaging 101 Part 2
• Mobile and Internet Linux project

There is a new developer center on Sun Developer Network- Python Developer Center.

With sections such as - Start here, Spotlight and Community this sure is an interesting development for Python developers.

Related:

• nbPython: Python development on NetBeans
• Python and Jython: An Interview With Sun's Ted Leung and Frank Wierzbicki
  

The latest issue of the COMMUNICATIONS of the ACM features some great reads.

Look Inside >>  July 2008

My favorite keywords in there- Cloud Computing, ZFS, XML, Good Code.

Magic of http://wordle.net/

As a first timer, I created a simple Yahoo pipe with 2 RSS feeds and a Union operator. I obtained the data from 2 RSS feeds and merged them with a union operator to obtain the pipe output.

The pipe that I created obtains my bookmarks from del.icio.us  and my recent Google Reader shared items and feeds them into a union operator which pipes it out to the final output.

This is how it looks like:

Just claimed my blog on Technorati.

Here is my profile

Google I/O sessions Videos & Slides are now available at http://code.google.com/events/io