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Dear VirtueDesktops Guy

Posted on January 23, 2008 by bkjones

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….

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Sun Acquires MySQL

Posted on January 16, 2008 by bkjones

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

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Do You, Um…. Brew?

Posted on January 13, 2008 by bkjones

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…

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AppLogic Cheat Sheet

Posted on January 11, 2008 by bkjones

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…

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The beginnings of a CLI interface to Google Spreadsheets

Posted on December 19, 2007 by bkjones

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…

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Deep Thoughts: Printing

Posted on November 6, 2007 by bkjones

Some day, a language will exist that works as flawlessly across platforms as printing sucks across platforms. That will be a wonderful day (until and unless you have to print something).

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Python Magazine Defies Skeptics

Posted on November 1, 2007 by bkjones

I was informed today by the publisher that Python Magazine has been deemed “viable” using all of the important business metrics that they use to evaluate the magazine. This is fantastic news, and speaks volumes about the viability of the magazine in *non* business terms, as well as the model we’ve been employing at MTA…

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I need a Google Apps Mashup

Posted on October 23, 2007 by bkjones

Google Docs is nice. Calendar is really nice. Gmail is ok, too. The notion that you can more or less use any of the tools without going too far is pretty nice, and they’ve opened things up with the API just enough to get some useful plugin capabilities, *and* there’s a Python client available for…

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“For the Community”

Posted on October 21, 2007 by bkjones

Sometimes people claim they’re doing things for the good of the community, but I guess that doesn’t necessarily mean they intend to involve the community in the effort :-/ A group of open source/free software users in New Jersey (where I currently reside) learned that the hard way when the maintainer of a web site…

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The Technology Behind Python Magazine

Posted on October 10, 2007 by bkjones

Hi all, I mentioned to a buddy (who is also an editor) that we used subversion in our editorial process. He didn’t know what that was, and said that they used either this big nasty home grown system, or email attachments, to coordinate the editorial process.  He was incredibly curious about how we used subversion…

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