Learn with me as I experiment with pyvnc2swf. Hopefully I'll have a short series of howtos on creating a screencast (including mixing sound and that sort of fun stuff). Also, this isn't really linux specific per se, but one of the only ways to do it on linux (on mac …

Like Duncan, I've also been messing around with JSON-RPC lately. I'm got most of a WSGI implementation done and a python client library done. I have an article describing the client code here.

For pythoneers, I've got a question: This code is largely based on xmlrpclib. It could easily be …

I read an interesting article by Gurdy Leet, an art professor, who migrated from closed source tools to open source tools (and operating systems). They moved from MacOSX with AdobeCS to Ubuntu (ppc) with Gimp, inkscape, scribus.

Perhaps just as interesting is the dichotomy found within the comments. People shouting …

My wife or I have recently had the experience of interacting with the customer service folks of 3 different companies. I'd like to share my experiences here for a few reasons:

• To draw attention (both good and bad) to the companies treatment of their customer
• To allow others to make …

I attended the tutorials the first day of Pycon. The first one I attended was Python 102. I guess I figured it would be more like 302, so there wasn't much new. Since I'm still basically programming in the 1.6-2.2 era I thought it would be good to …

This screencast should've been a presentation at Pycon. It does a relatively decent job comparing and constrasting J2EE, ROR, Zope, TG, and Django.

I talked to a handful of people at Pycon who said they would've enjoyed a panel discussion with the web framework creators discussing pros/cons and future …

Here's my recap of Mashupcamp. My definition of a mashup hasn't really changed since the camp has ended (for some reason I thought that it would). I would define a mashup as a webpage consuming non- native webservices (sprinkle liberally with googlemaps) which may be screenscraped or proxied.

One notable …

I recently bought a Thinkpad R52. The first thing I did was install gentoo. So far I'm pretty impressed. The R52 doesn't have fancy features, but it has all the basics. I was deliberating whether to wait for the core duo laptops to come out and just getting a laptop …

One of the session's I've attended was by Adrian Holovarty on Screen Scraping. Adrian (of Django fame) made chicago crime to help the citizens of Chicago. Citizen ICAM, police department site that has a database of crimes but is not user friendly for browsing. Has a pretty bad interface only …

I was at OSBC last week, manning the SpikeSource booth and was able to slip into Nick Carr's keynote. Nick Carr basically compared IT today to the state of electicity in factories in the early 1900s. During that time factories had their internal power plants that weren't added value to …