As blogger James Altucher would say, I finally have a stack of business cards. Physical business cards that I can hold in my hand! OK, they aren’t really cards, they are books. Books the I have written over the past 3+ years. I’ll try to always have a …
more ...Here is an update on what I have been up to in the last while.
I have been approached to do some corporate Python training. I would love to do it but real life has just gotten in the way. I really enjoy helping others learn (hence my …
more ...TLDR I have found the perfect keyboard (for me) that has the following features:
(My new keyboard on my standing desk stand (raised by Logitech box to correct ergonomic height). Old unicomp in background)
PyCon is right around the corner, and I am lucky to be able to deliver two tutorials this year. For our Utah Python meeting in January, I will be going over a portion of the Hands-on Intermediate Python Tutorial. People seem to enjoy this tutorial, and since I've been trying …
more ...Every time I see an intern or new junior programmer I fight off the urge to give the the advice I wish someone had given me. So rather than sound preachy, I'm going to pretend that I'm from the movie Frequency and give advice to my younger self. In that …
more ...I continue to prefer Goaltimate for groups of 13 or less. It's a great game, one gets lots of touches and newbies, seasoned folks can play together. I think it improves new ultimate players throws better than ultimate does. It's great for warming up. We usually play until we have …
more ...After a long day of manual labor last weekend, I spent a couple minutes relaxing by converting some PDF's to mobi files so my mom could read them on her Kindle. Her Kindle supports PDF, but reading PDF's on Kindles (especially of the non-DX eink variety) is a pain. You …
more ...I would really like to use the same toolset for publishing POD (Print On Demand) books that I use for ebooks. Yet the pdf generation abilities of both docutils and Sphinx seem more focused on pdf "ebooks"---pdf's that you would read from a computer---not pdf's that are approriate to …
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As a seventh grader I had the choice between learning French and Spanish. I choose Spanish because it was practical (or at least my parents convinced me of that), while it seemed that all the cool kids took French. Excuse my French but I think my parents were right---taking French …
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