This morning I had a few hours to myself in a jetlagged induced stupor. It was refreshing to sit and watch the sunrise, yet disappointing to realize I had driven to work only to be locked out for an hour. So I had some time to ponder.

Being the visual …

Is the ease of developing in python a drawback? Is too much choice just confusing?

I'm in the middle of trying to get TurboGears working with Python 2.3 (the latest subversion head supposedly supports it...) to see if I can use it as a framework for SAM. (Though like …

UPDATE (Jan 2007)Duncan McGrego has taken these scripts and run with them. There is an updated version on the cheeseshop! Thanks Duncan. (Behold open source!) end update

While attending FOSS.IN, one of the sessions was a website security session. I only caught the tail end, but it felt …

Today started off with a bang with a keynote Andrew Cowie. He did an excellent job speaking and wasn't afraid to ruffle feathers. One of the best parts was his proposal to change Linux to "Open Office/Mozilla/Apache/Perl/Gnu/Linux" (talking RMS's GNU/Linux fixation one step further …

Today was the second day of FOSS. I'll jot down my observations from today.

The first talk I attended was from LWN's Jonathon Corbet. He discussed recent happenings in the Linux kernel. He noted that the development cycle of the kernel was becoming more "professional", with two week cycles for …

I made it to India intact. I haven't really slept much in the past 48 hours, so forgive the typos. The FOSS conference is being held outside of the palace of Bangalore. The schedule got kind of messed up and many of the talks were delayed by varying amounts. This …

I've updated SAM to now include a webserver. This brings along with it a new AJAXy interface (I guess this is sort of a followup to my AJAX post, Alex (dojo) and Bob (mochikit) were the only open source people who responded to my requests for comments (one commercial company …

A co-worker of mine has created a very useful firefox extension for capturing interactions in Firefox. By itself this is useful for scripting common things you do with the web that are tedious yet you do them often. (I had an old coworker who had carpal tunnels who used a …

Yes that title is a question not an answer. A short amount of scouring the internet turned up nothing. We recently purchased a Canon S1 camera that takes pretty good mjpeg videos. Our DVD player, the Philips 642 will play divx video, yet I can't seem to convert the mjpeg …

So, I've been trying out MochiKit. The stuff I've done so far seems very straightforward and also functional (as in lispy). Hopefully I'll have something to show for it soon. In the meantime, I've created a python script (read hack complete with unit tests) for converting well formed html to …