Google Go

By way of Slashdot, I came across the Go Programming Language. I also came across a rumor that Google is discouraging the use of Python for new projects. I had considered Python to have an advantage over Ruby because of Google's sponsorship. Now, when I see an announcement for support of Go in Google App Engine, I'll have to start learning it. Too bad the acronym YAPL is already taken up a few ways, since this is yet another programming language.

OCR on PDF

Today I needed to take a PDF doc that consisted of a scanned book and convert it to text, to make it searchable. I used Craig Taverner's ruby script and it worked like a charm, once I changed the script to use the right tesseract path.