It occurs to me that lots of people have no idea that Python Magazine has an IRC channel! Since I know a lot of our authors, and even more of our readers, actually use IRC, we’ve created a channel called #pymag on irc.freenode.net (FreeNode in most clients). The goal of the channel is to be…
Author: bkjones
Dear VirtueDesktops Guy
Note: if you’re a Leopard user wishing Apple’s Spaces was never invented, and you’d pay to have VirtueDesktops back, please leave a ‘me too’ post in the comments! UPDATE: See this link to make Spaces not *completely* useless: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2008021122525348 Please pick development back up for VirtueDesktops. Apple’s spaces not only falls short, it totally sucks….
Sun Acquires MySQL
I’m pretty sure I’m not pleased about this, but I guess only time will tell. Maybe now my boss will let me move to PostgreSQL 😀 See the news release here Blogged with Flock
Do You, Um…. Brew?
A long time ago, a buddy of mine got me into brewing beer. I’m not talking about buying a can o’ syrup and adding water – I’m talking about buying grain, taking it home, milling it, mashing it, hopping it, fermenting it, bottling and kegging it…. *really* brewing beer. Anyway, it turns out that a…
AppLogic Cheat Sheet
I’ve been using AppLogic for exactly one month today, and I’ve learned a whole heckuva lot about what it takes to build an infrastructure using the AppLogic grid operating system. One of the very first things I learned is that there is just a TON of documentation, but a very large portion of it is…
Identifying Database Badness
I started my career on the database end of the technological landscape, as a consulting database reporting specialist, then later as a consulting DBA for Sybase. It was there that I discovered that the real fun was in system administration, but I still have a deep love for data organization, modeling, and management, even though…
Python Magazine’s Article Wish List
Welcome to the second occasional PyMag Article Wish List, where the editors of Python Magazine get together to come up with a list of topics that we’d like to see covered, but which currently have no coverage in our magazine. If you’re familiar with any of the topics listed below, or you’re doing something else…
December issue of Python Magazine Out, and DRM-Free
After the October and November issues of Python Magazine were both out for some time, I was pretty surprised when I joined IRC channels only to find lots of people who still didn’t know about Python Magazine. Well, the December issue has just been released in both print and PDF, and I think it’s a…
The beginnings of a CLI interface to Google Spreadsheets
I’m really re-posting this from an O’Reillynet posting I made a while back in order to test out the code highlighting capabilities of my new wordpress installation. It seems that it’s not really working correctly [UPDATE: Seems to be working now :-D]. Anyway, I hate (HATE!) spreadsheets. Even the Google variant. The interfaces to these…
How to Build Your Own MySQL 5 Server in AppLogic
I’m building an infrastructure on a grid using AppLogic, which is a grid OS that provides both GUI and command line interfaces to build your infrastructure. I use both interfaces, depending on the task I’m trying to perform at the time. One thing I have discovered is that there are a lot of somewhat nebulous…