Archives - April, 2009



21 Apr 09

For this week only, Atlassian is offering a special 5-user “starter” license of JIRA and Confluence for only $5 each. They’re calling it the Atlassian Stimulus Package and it’s a great way of supporting small teams and small businesses in this difficult economic environment. Best of all, they will be donating every penny to charity, so please help them spread the word!

The Atlassian Foundation is donating all proceeds to Room to Read, a charity that helps the world’s future entrepreneurs by building libraries and schools for children in developing nations.

Get all the details at www.atlassian.com/starter. Hurry, offer ends on 24 April 2009.

Please spread the word as much as possible.

I would like to congratulate Atlassian for the great effort.


Filed under: OpenSource,non-techanical

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15 Apr 09

The Python interpreter contains few easter eggs which expresses sentiments of Python developer by and large I will listing them down if you know more kindly let me know

1. If you open a Python interpreter, and type

import this

, it outputs the following:

The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters

Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you’re Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it’s a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea — let’s do more of those!

2. On python interpreter typing from __future__ import braces

it prints the output as follows Traceback (SyntaxError: not a chance (<interactive input>, line 1)

3. On python interpreter type import __hello__

this outputs Hello world…

Those were few easter eggs which were there in Python pre-3000 release

An antigravity module is added to Python 3.0. Importing the module opens a web browser to an xkcd comic that portrays Python having an antigravity module

Kindly let me know if you know any more easter eggs.


Filed under: Humor,Programming

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