The last couple of weeks have been stressful, bittersweet, and exciting. An exciting opportunity fell upon me and the end result is that I resigned from SpikeSource and am now starting up a company.
SpikeSource has been wonderful to me, and I've very much enjoyed my time there. I've worked …
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 …
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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:
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 ...Interesting move by MS to license the rights to create fancy new office 2007 UIs. The one exception is that you can't use the ui in a competing product [ read OpenOffice ].
This just seems silly to me, but hey you gotta protect the cash cow somehow...
So what happens when …
more ...There is an interesting thread in the bazaar-ng mailing list going on right now. Anyway, to make a long story short (and save you from reading ~90 posts in the thread), Linus (of Linux/git fame) said the following concerning BitKeepr which I found quite insightful. (Over a year ago …
more ...I was able to attend Alex's presentation of Python 2.2 through 2.5 last night. Alex can be a passionate speaker at times, and is very knowledgeable. He went over most of the changes in 2.5 in pretty good detail.
Part of the fun of listening to Alex …
more ...I recently made a list of things to do to improve ones python coding abilities for a co-worker. One of the suggestions I gave him (besides writing actual python code) was to read other's code (hopefully it's good code). So my question to you python folk is what code would …
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