I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.
The blog here at dsandler.org is mostly historical; you can find more recent posts on Google+.
If you’re still wondering what Python decorators are really good for (beyond tagging classmethods), check out this Memoization recipe using decorators. Slick.
I gave up, a while back, on learning Ruby—the syntax was too weird and inconsistent, and I already had a favorite lightweight interpreted programming language. But when I see things like Instiki (a beautiful Wiki implementation with all the right features) and Rails (a very slick Web app framework, on which Instiki is built), I’m forced to wonder if I shouldn’t revisit the matter.
Excellent news!! (Score:5, Insightful)
by Anonymous Coward on Thu 28 Oct 04:40PM (#10658910)“WTF??” is where great science starts.
Re:Excellent news!! (Score:5, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward on Thu 28 Oct 04:58PM (#10659043)“OMFG!” as a close second, and “Hey, what’s growing on my sandwich?” a distinct third.
Truer words never said (on Slashdot). (Thread about Cassini probe mysteries.)