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…
‘Grokking Python’ Going to PICC Conference!
In conjunction with my involvement as co-author of the upcoming Python Cookbook, 3rd Ed. (not yet released), a tutorial at this year’s PyCon in Atlanta, an internal (and ongoing) lunchtime seminar series entitled ‘Snakes On a Plate’, and other recent Python-related projects, I’ve also been refining and revising what I can now call a completely…
Lessons Learned Porting Dateutil to Python 3
The dateutil module is a very popular third-party (pure) Python module that makes it easier (and in some cases, possible) to perform more advanced manipulations on dates and date ranges than simply using some combination of Python’s ‘included batteries’ like the datetime, time and calendar modules. Dateutil does fuzzy date matching, Easter calculations in the…
PyCon 2011 Predictions
PyCon 2011 is right around the corner. Are you going? You should. The talks are sick. You can still register — it’s too late to be an early bird, but registration is still open! Well, I am, and I’m here to get the rumor mill started by sharing some predictions for this year’s PyCon. Packaging…
Python 3: Informal String Formatting Performance Comparison
If you haven’t heard the news, Dave Beazley and I have officially begun work on the next edition of the Python Cookbook, which will be completely overhauled using absolutely nothing but Python 3. Yay! Right now, I’m going through some string formatting recipes from the 2nd edition to see if they still work, and if…