Interesting turn of events on gentoo-dev

How many times does this happen? You come back as a developer to a project you founded? That's gotta take some humility. It's my please to introduce to you Daniel "drobbins" Robbins. Daniel is going to work with the amd64 arch team but will probably venture to other areas too …

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Pycon2007 observations and thoughts

They say you know a foreign language pretty well when you start dreaming in it. It's a pretty surreal experience at first. Well, what about when you dream that you are sitting listening to conference talks and the conference is over? (Which happened to me last night) Probably means you …

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Web Framework Panel notes [pycon]

Here's some notes from the web framework panel at Pycon, discussing various attributes of the frameworks and why python tends to have so many frameworks.

Discussion led by Titus Brown featuring:

  • Zope - Jim Fulton
  • CherryPy - Robert Brewer
  • Django - Adrian Holovarty
  • TurboGears - Kevin Dangoor
  • Pylons - Ben Bangert
  • Nevow - Duncan McGregor
  • Spyce …
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resume scp after interrupted downloads (use rsync)

If your download got cut off using scp , stop and read this before using scp again!

Telecommuting has it's perks. But one of the downsides can be the network issues. Especially if you have to download large amounts of data often. Having been bit by the interrupted downloads one too …

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Apps to watch (Beryl)

So, I've had a little column called Apps to Watch, on the right hand side of my blog for a while. Those are open source apps that are very useful, disruptors or apps necessary for desktop linux and that many people haven't heard of these. Since I've been a slacker …

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Firefox extension weirdness with Firebug

The good and the bad of firefox.

Firefox is cool (though many times I prefer konqueror which can be snappier and take less memory). What makes firefox cooler are the vast extensions (not plugins) available for it. This gives users the chance to have the web how they want it …

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