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 …
more ...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 …
more ...Slashdot reports on Apple's anti DRM again. Sadly none of the posters seem to understand why Jobs really doesn't care if Apple has DRM'd content or not. My brother explained this to me the other day and it was so obvious I wondered why it isn't more common. (See defective …
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I feel a little bad for just posting these notes. But I think they can be useful for others. These are notes learned about running an open source project from the Django project This talk was by Jacob Kaplan Moss.
I've blogged about bugs and testing in open source previously, I was quite interested in this panel. I was surprised because there was little discussion of code coverage, because I think it is quite important for dynamic languages to have good coverage. (I find that doctest and coverage.py not …
more ...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:
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 …
more ...Last night I attended the "Tech Talk" for the LDS Church (aka the Mormons). A church sponsoring a tech talk seems sortof like having google workshop telling you how to achieve nirvana. For those uninitiated with the LDS faith, obviously there is a huge interest in genealogical research and making …
more ...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 …
more ...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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