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WinPython doesn't start?

I ran across PyBrain [pybrain.org], a “modular machine learning library for Python.” It needs the whole Scientific Python stack and since setting it up manually seemed like a pain, I decided to

How to create a WCF web service from a WSDL

This wasn’t the first time I was tasked with creating a mock web service based on a WSDL file. I’ve tried multiple approaches, but most of them weren’t exactly what

Elemental words

> “When I heard oxygen and magnesium hooked up, I was like OMg.” This joke more or less started it. We started exchanging similar ones with a friend and soon after I found

Behind every interesting blog

… is an interesting person. This, I think, is a quote from one of the blogs below, though I can’t figure out which. Sorry. Fabulous Adventures in Coding [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/

Scripted text processing

When working on the last project at work, my tasks were often defined poorly. I had to make web services that would accept complicated data structures, but I only had one example file