1. Identi.ca and XMPP

    I've been trying out micro-blogging through Identi.ca recently. (I'm jpichon, if you're curious.) I find their integration with XMPP both awesome and handy, so here's a quick guide to setting it up and using it, if you haven't given it a try yet.

    Activating it

    Start by adding update …

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  2. 'Intro to programming', session #3

    I suspect I must have sounded particularly freaked out when people were late last week, because this time (last Monday) several people added a variant of "but I love the course!" at the end of their message letting me know they couldn't attend, haha! I once again left full of …

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  3. 'Intro to programming' class

    Last Monday was session #2 for the Introduction to programming class (with Python!) that I'm teaching in Tog.

    The class was starting at 7pm and I freaked out a little when by 7.15 only 2 people from the week before had showed up, plus one brand new student (was …

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