Historically, I post fairly regularly on this blog, but I haven’t been lately. It’s not for lack of anything to write about, but rather a lack of time to devote to blogging. I want to post at greater length about some of the stuff I’ve been doing, and I have several draft posts, but I…
Author: bkjones
PyCon Talk Proposals: All You Need to Know And More
Writing a talk proposal needn’t be a stressful undertaking. There are two huge factors that seem to stress people out the most about submitting a proposal, and we’re going to obliterate those right now, so here they are: It’s not always obvious how a particular section of a proposal is evaluated, so it’s not always…
Sending Alerts With Graphite Graphs From Nagios
Disclaimer The way I’m doing this relies on a feature I wrote for Graphite that was only recently merged to trunk, so at time of writing that feature isn’t in a stable release. Hopefully it’ll be in 0.9.10. Until then, you can at least test this setup using Graphite’s trunk version. Oh yeah, the new…
The Python User Group in Princeton (PUG-IP): 6 months in
In May, 2011, I started putting out feelers on Twitter and elsewhere to see if there might be some interest in having a Python user group that was not in Philadelphia or New York City. A single tweet resulted in 5 positive responses, which I took as a success, given the time-sensitivity of Twitter, my…
The Happy Idiot
Today is November 1st, and there’s an event that takes place every November called National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I don’t believe I have the ability to really write a novel, and have no reason to think anyone would read it if I did. But I would like to make an attempt to write a…
pyrabbit Makes Testing and Managing RabbitMQ Easy
I have a lot of hobby projects, and as a result getting any one of them to a state where I wouldn’t be completely embarrassed to share it takes forever. I started working on pyrabbit around May or June of this year, and I’m happy to say that, while it’ll never be totally ‘done’ (it…
Shhh… I’m Hunting Talks
Well, it’s that time of year again. The PyCon 2012 Call for Proposals has ended. This means it’s time for the Program Committee to spring into action, evaluating all of the proposals, preparing to champion their favorites, and participating in the interactive meetings that eventually decide the fate of PyCon 2012’s slate of talks, tutorials,…
Thoughts on Python and Python Cookbook Recipes to Whet Your Appetite
Dave Beazley and myself are, at this point, waist deep into producing Python Cookbook 3rd Edition. We haven’t really taken the approach of going chapter by chapter, in order. Rather, we’ve hopped around to tackle chapters one or the other finds interesting or in-line with what either of us happens to be working with a…
Slides, an App, a Meetup, and More On the Way
I’ve been busy. Seriously. Here’s a short dump of what I’ve been up to with links and stuff. Hopefully it’ll do until I can get back to my regular blogging routine. PICC ’11 Slides Posted I gave a Python talk at PICC ’11. If you were there, then you have a suboptimal version of the…
Book Review: Python Standard Library by Example
Quick Facts: Author: Doug Hellmann Pages: 1344 Publisher: Addison-Wesley (Developer’s Library) ETA: June 5, 2011 Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Python-Standard-Library-Example-Developers/dp/0321767349/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1307109464&sr=1-1-spell What this book says it does: From the book’s description: This book is a collection of essays and example programs demonstrating how to use more than 100 modules from Python standard library. It goes beyond the documentation…