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Welcome to the home page of McMillan Enterprises, Inc.. Most of the Java stuff is gone from my site. It was out of date, the book (Teach Yourself Database Programming with Visual J++ in 21 Days) has gone out of print; and I no longer try to stay on top of the language and it's plethora of class libraries, tools and products. I do stay fairly current on native code interfaces. The samples are still here. There's a lot about Python here, since that's what I enjoy doing most. One set of pages in the Python section is an introduction to sockets. The way Python handles sockets is enough like the C interface that you may find this a good intro even if you don't know anything about Python. My major project is a package for Distributing Python applications as standalone executables. Like macPython's BuildApplication, no compiler is required (except for initial setup on Linux). The package can be downloaded here. I'm a big fan of Christian Tismer's Stackless version of Python. A set of pages on the subject is here. If you are a Windows user willing to live with Python 1.5.2 or 2.0, (no Stackless for 2.1 yet), there's a fully functional FTP server on the last page of the set. I'm also involved with Jean-Claude Wippler's MetaKit embedded database library. I'm co-author of Mk4py (the Python binding to MetaKit), and recently released MkSQL - a SQL front end to Mk4py. Another topic that might show up on these pages some day is an essay on Python's import mechanism and how package authors screw up. From my experience with the Installer project (and as chairman of the Import-SIG), I have some rather strong opinions on the issue. Of course, the usual sales and marketing stuff is here, (only slightly - heh - out of date) on the About page. If you (or more likely, your employer <wink>) wants to fund further development of one of these projects, or some related project, please drop me a line. Enjoy your visit! |
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