I’ll update this as the day progresses at PyCon 2010. 1743: Lightning talks. Some sophomoric obscene humor is on display in one of the talks. 1655: Scaling your Python Application on EC2. Reddit’s move to EC2. They run 16 Python…

I’ll update this as the day progresses at PyCon 2010. 1727: Debating whether to attend the lightning talks, or have dinner now and hack Django tonight. Django coding wins. 1655: Testing and Testability. “Testability is as important as all the…

I should have a preamble here, but my mind’s blank. I’ll jump right in. I’ve been ruminating over this since returning from Open Source Bridge. I felt odd the day after returning, and I quickly realized that my mood was……

> Uncategorized > PyCon Tutorials, day 2, Liveblog I’ll update this as the day progresses at PyCon 2010. 1634: It’s just dawned on me that Jacob has as much energy at 4:30 pm as he does at 9:00 am. Yeow.…

> Uncategorized > Re-imagining News & Community in the Pacific Northwest: Day 2 Re-imagining News & Community in the Pacific Northwest: Day 2 1532: Packing it in. The remaining sessions aren’t sufficiently interesting to me to stay. Got some things…

> Uncategorized > Northwest Python Day 2010 Today, I’ll liveblog and tweet from Northwest Python Day 2010. I’ll update this article as the day progresses. 1717: More lightning talks. (I’m fading. Lots of great info and discussion today, it takes…

Clearing the mental attic of some odds and ends… A little bird told me that Fisher Communications is up for sale. I have no idea if this is true. But interestingly, Fisher filed an 8-K on August 24, notifying the…

It’s over. It was great. I learned a lot. I didn’t give back as much as I wanted to. Well, that’s a little dishonest – I don’t think I gave back at all. I intended to (I had a crackin’…

I already have Beginning Django E-Commerce. When Django 1.2 e-commerce came out, I thought, sure, why not. I’m a pushover for a good technical book. It has positive buzz, modulo some rumblings about glaring errors in the code samples. Chapter…

In Becoming a Craftsman, Rock Hymas writes about Mercurial vs. Subversion. It’s an excellent exposition of the tools and their underlying philosophies, and how his own development style changed from working on a Mercurial-based project. It’s slightly marred by his…