I've spent the past days starting a MonetDB backend for SQLAlchemy. My code is currently attached to ticket 874.

Here are my thoughts after spending a bit hacking out the backend (which is really slightly usable if you have nightly of Monetdb):

• I was thinking writing the backend would require …

As long as biased people are commenting on Matt's pining for a more innovative Miguel, I thought I'd throw in my two cents. I'm certainly biased* and have my opinions as well.

So yes, Matt made a technical faux paus in pleading with Miguel to develop more applications like Dashboard …

Some interesting thoughts about testing and python found among gnome developers. Joe Shaw was explaining how most new gnome apps these days are written in either python or C#. They choose C# for their app (Beagle) because "[they] wanted a strongly typed language" (I think he meant static typing but …

Just a few (rambling) thoughts on OpenOffice I've been having as of late. My daughter just started Kindergarten and my wife is now caught up in the PTA. So unlike the tech world, which tends to revolve around excel spreadsheets, the PTA revolves around word documents. My wife is relegated …

Using the Plugin

Was watching this video describing how to "slice" web page designs two days ago and it inspired me. After a tiny bit of digging I found that one can easily script inkscape using python.

Here's the process I've used for slicing web layout with Inkscape. Create your …

I arrived in Portland last night for OSCON. From a conference standpoint, it feels very similar to when I attended in 2005. The attendance doesn't appear to have grown much and the exhibition hall is about the same size. Though there appear to be a few more "community" exhibitors than …

I guess this has been around since the dawn of site aggregation (ala slashdot). I'm just sort of frustrated that my previous post's most valuable and relevant comments weren't posted on my blog but on an aggregator of programming links (reddit). I'm not implying that reddit isn't useful for finding …

Today, my laptop disk became full. So, I wanted to get the most bang for my buck and not waste my time erasing small files that weren't taking up a bunch of disk space. How does one do that? One way is the command line utility du, but I knew …

I got a nice 24 inch Dell flat panel monitor for work. Here's the good: * Bright colors (my laptop monitor looks dull now) * Wide (can comfortably browse two websites side by side) * Gentoo made installing drivers painless * xrandr 1.2 is nice * X developers rock

And now the bad: * I …

Given that MS is cracking down on poor Russians (which is weird since rampant piracy of their products only serves to promote their monopoly), I would've thought that some open source vendor would jump in to rescue Mr. Ponosov (head of school master in rural Russia charged with stealing software …