Pythoneer

I am so glad that Guido van Rossum is asking:
Please Teach me Web Frameworks for Python! So I only need to follow the discussions and get all the insight I need, I hope. Ok, one question might still be open: Which JavaScript Framework shall I use?
Some of the web frameworks integrate basic AJAX libraries, but not really everything that is needed if you really want to dive in. And then the question will come up if the JS libs are compatible or if they can be made compatible. I had heard that prototype does override some standard prototypes, which bothers other libs. I will keep you updated once I have decided and why!

Just a minute ago Alice was at my door. Really, she wanted to take over all my communication channels and suck my money out of me. I thought she was pretty, but I think she is really ugly. Don’t let the images trick you!

I am still baffled by the rudeness that guy was putting on.

The bell rang, I opened and there were two guys standing there. The one closest to me was the one talking. He was holding a block of paper and looked like some official guy that came to read the gas counter or alike. But when he said “I am coming to inform you that we are lowering the prices.” I knew there was something wrong with this guy. He was looking at me the first 10 seconds just to have eye contact (Oh, God. I made eye contact. - Wayne’s World). Then he looked down on his paper while talking to me, which - I have to admit - was smart and made me feel like I had to give answers and have to act now. Clever but quite rude!
I asked him what company he is from and what he wants. He was talking really quick, almost as if he intended me not to understand him and said “Alice whatever”. In Germany Alice is quite known I guess, they had some clever advertising everywhere. And until today Alice was kind of sympathetic to me - not anymore!
I still had the feeling as if I was in charge of telling this guy something and that I owed him. It took me a while to realize that I just had to tell him to go home and that I could also let my lips form the words. I told him that I do already have a phone company that I am happy with. He said that he could also offer DSL, which I replied again that I have that too and I am happy with it. It was kind of friendly but actually each one of us just had one goal. He wanted me to sign a contract and I just wanted to close my door as soon as possible.
Finally, I guess it was not even a minute, I told him that I will not become his customer and closed the door. Oh man, that somehow left me quite surprised but actually just because of his cold-blooded way of talking me into a contract. Shivery …

Picture from www.alice-dsl.de

I was not really waiting for it, but that is something everybody should know by heart: Wayne’s World quotes!
Other people love Dilbert, Donald Duck, Batman, etc …

It’s really cool. No it’s freezing cold! This morning on the radio they said that the warmest city in Bavaria was Würzburg with -10°C (10 degrees Celcius below zero!).

A happy new year and all the best for you reading here.
Welcome back this year, the few who stay tuned. After spending christmas and new years eve in Berlin and Valencia I am back in Munich, finally. Family matters settled :-).
I have just come back from having a beer with Stefan from Frischlink (quite a cool name I think). We had planned to generate ideas and to come up with something cool. We refreshed one of my older ideas and polished it up a bit, so this year there will be something coming at you, just be careful and watch!
Currently my time horizont is pretty relaxed. In February we will go and have a look at Dubai and after that I want to know for sure what this year shall bring for me. Currently the idea we just have woke up will probably take up most of my time and hopefully within three months see the light of earth. Besides that I am happy to take on jobs as a freelancer, as I have been doing about the last five years. So if there is someone interested in my skills don’t hesitate to contact me and order my help. Lately I got to dive deeply into Python, before that I have been spending all of my time consulting and implementing solutions all around PHP, MySQL, JavaScript and all that goes with it.
Again a happy new year and stay tuned…