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OSCON Day 1: The BoF Board, for your perusal

Posted on July 21, 2008July 21, 2008 by bkjones

I’ve posted a picture of the BoF board for day 1. Click on it to see bigger sizes. The full size image (maybe smaller) is perfectly suitable for reading at your leisure. I’ll update this if/when I see significant changes to it:

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Day 1 of OSCON Begins, and More Tips for Conference-goers

Posted on July 21, 2008 by bkjones

I got an early start. Too early. But I’m from the west coast, so my body thinks I slept in. I wandered around a bit, took a few pics which you can see at my Flickr OSCON set, and I discovered a couple of things that might be of interest: The starbucks in the conference…

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A Few Tips for OSCON Attendees

Posted on July 20, 2008 by bkjones

If you’re attending the 10th Annual Open Source Convention, I’ve compiled just a few tips for you on this, “day 0” of the event: Don’t check bags. Everything is slower if you check bags, and if you’re packing more than three shirts, you’re crazy, because if history is any indicator, you’re going to be bombarded…

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Useful stuff – 2008 – first half

Posted on July 11, 2008 by bkjones

Having a Google account is sometimes useful in ways you hadn’t planned for. For example, at a few different employers I’ve been at, I’ve had to prepare for reviews by providing a list of accomplishments to my supervisor. One decent tool for generating this list is email, though it can take some time. Another useful…

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Cloud computing hype overload

Posted on July 7, 2008 by bkjones

I’ve been working with what I used to call “utility computing” tools for about 6-9 months. However, for about the past 2 months, I’ve been seeing the term “cloud computing” all over the place, and there is so much buzz surrounding it that it’s reaching that magical point best described using Alan Greenspan’s words: “Irrational…

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This is how I want all project web sites to look…

Posted on July 3, 2008 by bkjones

My brain has a set of rules that software project websites get tested against. Each time a project site fails to comply with a rule, I get ever-so-slightly more annoyed, and ever-so-slightly less likely to use the software in question (if there are alternatives, this is even maybe not so “slightly”).  I thought I’d list…

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Plug-ins: isn’t there a better way?

Posted on June 25, 2008 by bkjones

If there’s one thing that bothers me about using a ready-made solution like wordpress for my blog, it’s plug-ins. I hate software plug-ins. The first question every support engineer for any software product that supports plugins asks in response to a trouble report is “are you using any plugins?” And when you say “yep, I’m…

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PyWorks 2008, November 12-14, Call for Papers Open!

Posted on June 25, 2008 by bkjones

Yes, the same folks who bring you Python Magazine and php|architect magazine (and several other things, like online training, a full line of books, and more conferences), are hosting our first ever Python conference! You can see more about it, and the Call for Papers, at the conference site. The hotel which once hosted php|works…

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Why should I pay for this AWS design decision?

Posted on June 23, 2008June 23, 2008 by bkjones

I was writing a utility in Python (using boto) to test/play with Amazon’s SQS service. As boto isn’t particularly well documented where SQS specifically is concerned, I also plan to post some examples (either here or on Linuxlaboratory.org, or both). When I had some trouble getting a message that was sent to a queue, I…

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O’Reilly: Give your authors Safari access!

Posted on June 20, 2008June 23, 2008 by bkjones

UPDATE – 2008-06-23 – A member of O’Reilly’s editing team commented that this privilege has *NOT* been discontinued, and all O’Reilly authors should receive a free Safari account. Thanks a bunch, Mary, for the clarification (see comments for more). I learned from one of the authors of the recently released second (read: first, squared) edition…

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