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    <description>Blog for Davy Mitchell with topics from Python, Internet, Energy, Politics and more.</description>
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      <title>Review : IronPython In Action</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Being one the first books on any topic out there is a double edged sword. On the one hand you can corner the market for a while and on the other you have a wide range of expectations to deal with. ... [862 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:47:05 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>XAML and IronPython - Part 4 Online</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2008_08_16.html#e205</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[After a delay of 3 months (sorry - new job, house fun etc !), Part 4 is now online - oddly the article was written and it was just a little coding required to complete. Part Four now online. ... [96 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:30:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Mood News SilverLight</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2008_05_10.html#e204</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[So much to blog about... so little time... one thing... Ever since I put together Mood News, I wanted (and people suggested) having a slider to 'mix' the level of the news. ... [72 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 21:55:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>XAML and IronPython - Part 3 Online</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2008_04_26.html#e203</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Part Three now online. A bit more to digest this time. Don't forget Part One and Part Two. Articles are aimed at programmers new to GUI work - anyone experienced in GUI programming should zoom right through them. ... [38 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:54:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>XAML and IronPython Introductory Articles</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2008_04_19.html#e201</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Recently I had the idea of writing a bit more on the XAML example I put together. Initially it was going to be on the wiki, then a blog post and now it looks like it will be 5 short articles . ... [178 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:05:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Links for April 17th</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2008_04_12.html#e200</link>
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<category>Google</category>
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      <description><![CDATA[Some changes for this link dump - more description of the link from the feed. Is is too long? 'World peace' hitcher is murdered A female Italian artist hitch-hiking to the Middle East in a wedding dress to promote world peace is murdered in Turkey.... ... [1014 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:52:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Twitter - Far Far More Than Social Networking</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2008_04_05.html#e199</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[There's been a fair bit of blogging about Twitter and people 'getting it' or not. Sure, it is a great networking site and far more fun than the likes of Bebo but that's not Twitters strength which lies in its API which makes a great platform. ... [211 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 9 Apr 2008 20:38:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>XAML Fun, Editors and Psycho-Fooled!</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2008_03_29.html#e198</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Been playing around with IronPython and XAML lately. It is pretty cool to work with and the end results look really good. ... [99 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 3 Apr 2008 21:30:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Links from Google Reader</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2008_03_22.html#e197</link>
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<category>IronPython</category>
<category>Christian</category>
<category>Ubuntu</category>
<category>Israel</category>


      <description><![CDATA[BBC apologizes for erroneous reporting on Israel Solution sought over embryo vote views.py for wikinear.com SkySails Test Results In! 20% Fuel Savings! ... [108 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:36:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Pythonnews, IronPython and finally upgrading to Python 2.5</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2008_03_01.html#e195</link>
<category>Python</category>
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      <description><![CDATA[Right going to burn through a few topics fast tonight since I was up at 5am... pythonnews now has 24 followers. ... [186 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 2 Mar 2008 07:34:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>pythonnews on twitter - Follow Follow me!</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2008_02_23.html#e193</link>
<category>IronPython</category>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sheesh... I have been busy but I want to do a Python news project (newsletter and podcast plans shelved sadly) this year and I needed a small project that would suit sporadic yet regular short updates. ... [73 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:21:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The BBC and Web Sliders and Mood News</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2008_01_05.html#e188</link>
<category>Internet</category>
<category>IronPython</category>
<category>Python</category>
<category>MoodNews</category>
<category>BBC</category>
<category>Mashup</category>
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      <description><![CDATA[The BBC have been working on some cool RSS projects and they are going to open source a web slider controls soon too. There's a pretty cool demo to play with. ... [100 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 9 Jan 2008 22:07:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Mood News - Now IronPython Powered!</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2007_12_29.html#e183</link>
<category>Python</category>
<category>Internet</category>
<category>IronPython</category>
<category>MoodNews</category>
<category>Mashup</category>
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      <description><![CDATA[It has been a while coming, Mood News is now IronPython powered. It is running on 2.0A6 due to a bug in A7 which stops QueryPy working. ... [85 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:56:46 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Mashing Up A Podcast and Google Calendar</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2007_12_15.html#e182</link>
<category>Internet</category>
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<category>Christian</category>


      <description><![CDATA[2 months later... back blogging and even a bit of Python! This weekend I had an idea to mashup Google calendar, IronPython, Python, the Bible and a podcast. ... [76 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:04:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>IronPython 2.0 Alpha 5</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2007_10_06.html#e181</link>
<category>Python</category>
<category>IronPython</category>
<category>Microsoft</category>


      <description><![CDATA[IronPython hits another milestone &quot;We have just released IronPython 2.0 Alpha 5. Over the past month our team has been busy fixing bugs which were typically chosen by the number of votes on CodePlex. ... [97 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:07:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>IronPython 2.0 Alpha 4 Released</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2007_09_01.html#e177</link>
<category>IronPython</category>
<category>Python</category>
<category>Microsoft</category>
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      <description><![CDATA[IronPython 2.0 Alpha 4 Released!! While it might not be quite as notable at Python 3000 it is a steady step forward. ... [22 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 7 Sep 2007 22:50:25 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Make Twitter Talk With IronPython</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2007_09_01.html#e176</link>
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<category>Python</category>
<category>Twitter</category>
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      <description><![CDATA[I have been having fun with my unusual commutes this week thanks to Twitter so I decided to revisit one of my talking Python scripts. Check the Twitter API page for a list of XML's - the sample script reads the public timeline. ... [91 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 7 Sep 2007 22:31:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Minimise A WinForm To The System Tray</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2007_09_01.html#e175</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[You will need a test.ico in the same directory to run this code. import clr clr.AddReference("System.Windows.Forms") clr.AddReference("System.Drawing") from System.Drawing import Icon from System.Windows.Forms import (Application, Form, NotifyIcon, FormWindowState, MouseButtons) class Main(Form): &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;def __init__(self): &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;self.initNotifyIcon() &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;self.Resize += self.ResizeForm &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;def initNotifyIcon(self): &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;self.notifyIcon = NotifyIcon() &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;self.notifyIcon.Icon = Icon("test.ico") &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;self.notifyIcon.Visible = False &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;self.notifyIcon.MouseDoubleClick += self.DoubleClickOnTrayIcon &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;def ResizeForm(self, s, e): &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;if self.WindowState == FormWindowState.Minimized: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;self.notifyIcon.Visible = True &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;self.Visible = False &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;def DoubleClickOnTrayIcon(self, s, e): &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;if e.Button == MouseButtons.Left: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;self.Visible = True &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;if self.WindowState == FormWindowState.Minimized: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;self.WindowState = FormWindowState.Normal &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;self.notifyIcon.Visible = False if __name__ == "__main__": &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;main = Main() &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Application.EnableVisualStyles() &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Application.Run(main) ... [95 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 3 Sep 2007 22:16:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>IronPython - Transparent Label 2</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2007_08_04.html#e173</link>
<category>Python</category>
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      <description><![CDATA[A little while ago I blogged a little bit of code to create a transparent label control for IronPython. I reused it recently and realised that it did not work too well if the text was changed. ... [113 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:26:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Dangerous Online Python</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2007_07_07.html#e170</link>
<category>Fun</category>
<category>Python</category>
<category>Scotland</category>
<category>IronPython</category>
<category>Snake</category>


      <description><![CDATA[Careful where you buy your pets ... ... [7 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:13:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>New Style or Old Style or ?</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2007_07_07.html#e169</link>
<category>IronPython</category>
<category>Python</category>
<category>Classes</category>


      <description><![CDATA[There are some (okay many) areas of Python discussion I just blur over. One being old style classes. There was an issue on the IronPython mailing list which caught my eye. ... [73 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:09:10 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Hot July, Clouds, Tags, Dogs and Databases</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2007_06_30.html#e168</link>
<category>Python</category>
<category>IronPython</category>
<category>LDBackup</category>
<category>CSharp</category>
<category>Database</category>


      <description><![CDATA[...and I have a cold! Hmm nearly a month since the last post. The web server that powers this site was out for a couple of days - sorry about that. ... [283 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 3 Jul 2007 22:40:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Getting To Grips With Lambda</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2007_06_09.html#e167</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Today I had the chance to use Lambda for the first time. I was after a list of functions but also wanted properties and variables in the list. ... [62 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 9 Jun 2007 13:57:25 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Comp.Lang.Python River 2</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2007_04_28.html#e164</link>
<category>Python</category>
<category>Podcast</category>
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      <description><![CDATA[First code post in while! Just published an update to Comp.Lang.Python River - hopefully the threading is much better Please suggest changes. ... [293 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:58:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>IronPython Benchmarks</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2007_04_21.html#e163</link>
<category>Python</category>
<category>IronPython</category>
<category>benchmarks</category>
<category>mono</category>


      <description><![CDATA[Jim Hugunin has written an interesting post comparing benchmarks for IronPython 1.1 from .Net and Mono. Unsurprisingly .Net is faster than Mono but as with most figures/statistics it is the more subtle stuff that is interesting. ... [36 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 13:18:25 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>CatchUp</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2007_04_07.html#e161</link>
<category>Python</category>
<category>IronPython</category>
<category>Angus</category>
<category>River</category>
<category>cloud</category>


      <description><![CDATA[Wow - big break from computing in my spare time. This is alot to do with the good weather and running off to enjoy Carnoustie beach with a spaniel. ... [106 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 8 Apr 2007 21:25:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Podcast Code</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2007_03_24.html#e157</link>
<category>Podcast</category>
<category>Python</category>
<category>IronPython</category>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ever since I started the Python Podcasts I meant to share the code. I am revisiting it to create a 'river' page so thought I would publish the audio only version first. ... [73 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:10:44 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>IronPython 1.1 RC1</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2007_03_17.html#e156</link>
<category>IronPython</category>
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      <description><![CDATA[IronPython v1.1 is a minor update to IronPython including both new functionality as well as a number of targeted bug fixes. The new functionality in v1.1 includes several new modules (array, SHA, MD5, and select), support for XML Doc comments within the help system and doc tags, as well as support for loading cached pre-compiled modules. ... [56 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:35:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Breaking The API</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2007_03_10.html#e154</link>
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<category>IronPython</category>
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<category>DotNet</category>
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<category>Layout</category>
<category>TayLayout</category>


      <description><![CDATA[Well, at least changing it.... TayLayout is still Alpha so perhaps I shouldn't worry so much. The first change would be to shorten methods so that for example: self.colpick2 = self.ALayout.addColorPicker("Background 2", Color.LightBlue, True, 300) self.ALayout.addSpace(False) self.borderoption = self.ALayout.addCheckBox("Draw Border around picture", True, 250)Would become: self.colpick2 = self.ALayout.ColorPicker("Background 2", Color.LightBlue, True, 300) self.ALayout.Space(False) self.borderoption = self.ALayout.CheckBox("Draw Border around picture", True, 250)The second disruptive change would be to make the default when adding a control NOT to start a new row. ... [114 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:29:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>wxTayLayout 00.00.12</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2007_02_24.html#e148</link>
<category>Python</category>
<category>IronPython</category>
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      <description><![CDATA[wxTayLayout 00.00.12 is now available for download! This brings the wxPython version of TayLayout very close to feature parity with the IronPython version. ... [33 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:06:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Twitter, IronPython Beta 1.1 and TayLayout</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2007_02_17.html#e142</link>
<category>Python</category>
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      <description><![CDATA[I am now on Twitter - didn't like the sound of it at first but now I am having fun now. There's a simple API too which I have played with a little. ... [88 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:23:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Review Of Movable Python Megapack 2.0.0</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2007_02_17.html#e140</link>
<category>Python</category>
<category>IronPython</category>
<category>Software</category>


      <description><![CDATA[Read my review here. This is the longest document I have written yet with Google's word processor. A fairly pleasent experience ... [21 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:13:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Hello World - TayLayout Tutorial</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2007_02_10.html#e137</link>
<category>Python</category>
<category>IronPython</category>


      <description><![CDATA[This tutorial shows how to use TayLayout, starting with Hello World. Tutorial1-1.py import clr &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;clr.AddReference('System.Windows.Forms') &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;clr.AddReference('System.Drawing') &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;from taylayout import * &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;class MainForm(Form): &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;def __init__(self): &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Form.__init__(self) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;# STEP 1 - Create Layout. ... [334 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:50:13 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>TayLayout 00.00.16</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2007_02_10.html#e136</link>
<category>IronPython</category>
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      <description><![CDATA[This is a small release of TayLayout with a few new handy classes. LDForm, LDPrompt and LDDialog provide a few more helpers and the main layout code has an important tweak. ... [162 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:30:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Return of The Davy Blog</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2007_02_03.html#e135</link>
<category>Internet</category>
<category>IronPython</category>
<category>Podcast</category>
<category>Python</category>
<category>MoodNews</category>
<category>Software</category>


      <description><![CDATA[Varous boring reasons have kept me not blogging of late. The only one worth mentioning is that the domain is no longer latedecember.com but latedecember**.co.uk**. ... [168 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 5 Feb 2007 13:25:40 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Fast WinForms with TayLayout</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2006_12_16.html#e134</link>
<category>Python</category>
<category>IronPython</category>


      <description><![CDATA[Spend 2 minutes on this blog and you will realise I have been having fun mucking around with WinForms and IronPython. It is nice writing GUI's in pure code and no resource files or form editor to play with but you often have to write a fair few lines of code. ... [328 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:24:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Creating An EXE with IronPython</title>
      <link>http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/arch_d7_2006_12_16.html#e133</link>
<category>Python</category>
<category>IronPython</category>
<category>CodePlex</category>
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      <description><![CDATA[IronPython has a few useful samples up on the Codeplex site - today I got the chance to look at them. The most interesting one is PYC which shows how to create DLL's, Console and Windows applications with a single call to the script. ... [122 words]]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:42:19 GMT</pubDate>
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