I've kept a journal since I was 11. That was in the mid 80's. I hadn't heard the word “journaling” until about a year or so ago, and lately it appears that giving advice and howto information about journaling is a bit of a cottage industry. I had no idea so many people were in…
Category: Big Ideas
What Geeks Could Learn From Working In Restaurants
I spent a long time in my teens and early 20’s working in restaurants. To be honest, I loved just about every minute of it. It’s exciting, you’re never idle, and it’s usually not boring: you either get immediate gratification from happy customers leaving a nice tip, or you’re on the defensive, thinking on your…
What I’ve Been Up To
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…
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…
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…
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…
Nose and Coverage.py Reporting in Hudson
I like Hudson. Sure, it’s written in Java, but let’s be honest, it kinda rocks. If you’re a Java developer, it’s admittedly worlds better because it integrates with seemingly every Java development tool out there, but we can do some cool things in Python too, and I thought I’d share a really simple setup to…
Python Packaging, Distribution, and Deployment: Volume 1
This is just Volume 1. I’ll cover as much as I can and just stop when it gets so long most people will stop reading 🙂 I’ve been getting to know the Python packaging and distribution landscape way better than I ever wanted to over the last couple of weeks. After 2 or 3 weeks…