ICFP Contest 2009
The ICFP 2009 programming contest started a couple weeks earlier than last year, and unfortunately I only found out about it as it was ending. The challenge is to solve as best as possible in 72 hours...
View ArticleDominoes
Playing dominoes is hard. Like playing card games there are many games you can play with dominoes and last night I was exposed to Muggins/Fives. Muggins has a points system and unlike the kiddie...
View ArticleLooking For a New Gig
I'm a Boston based python developer looking for a new gig, full time or consulting. Here are my resume highlights:Co-founded a web analytics & marketing company (Psynchronous Communications), and...
View ArticleYour Talk Proposal Here
As it turns out one of the marginal items that gets trimmed in a down economy is conference jaunts [Q: who would have guessed? A: everybody]. PyCon 2010 needs talks, so if you have something...
View ArticleMy PyCon 2010 Talk
My talk is tentatively titled "Python's Dusty Corners."* It will be a brief overview of all the features in python that you don't need to know about right up until the moment you do. The list includes...
View ArticleCthulhu and Python
Andrew Kuchling broached the topic on twitter so I think that makes it fair game.For those of you who don't know H.P. Lovecraft wrote the short fiction horror story The Call of Cthulhu in 1926. The...
View ArticleA Glimpse of PyCon in Your Hometown
As in past years local Python user groups are hosting PyCon speakers to give their talks in a dress rehearsal before PyCon. It is good for the speakers, good for the local user groups, and good for...
View ArticlePyCon Plans
My flight is booked, I'm registered, and I have otherwise been pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed and numbered*. I'll be there for the Language Summit through two and a half days of...
View ArticlePyCon on the Charles
The first three Boston PyCon speakers spoke last night at PyCon on the Charles, Night I. NB: If you are near Boston do show up on Feb 3rd for PyCon on the Charles, Night II with Glyph Lefkowitz, Peter...
View ArticlePyCon on the Charles, Night 2
50+ members of the Boston Python Local turned out for PyCon on the Charles, Night 2; a dress rehearsal for PyCon speakers from the Boston area. Ned did an informal survey of the audience and 1/3rd will...
View ArticlePyCon Prep
If you are giving a talk take the time to watch AMK's How to Give a Python Talk. I posted some thoughts on speaking last year too. For anyone attending: go listen to the Pre-PyCon podcast where several...
View ArticlePyCon Wrapup
Here are my assorted thoughts on PyCon this year. Long story short: Marvelous.The Atlanta location was actually in downtown Atlanta and not like the Chicago or Dallas PyCons where it was hosted nearer...
View ArticleHigh Trust, High Responsibility Communities
[This is a blog version of a lightning talk I didn't give at PyCon]People Hacking is as old as time, and every long lasting organization engages in it. One example of hacking people (and the title of...
View ArticlePyCon Wrapup II: Python Stuff
[People stuff is trees-and-forest, so here is a post on what was done about Python at PyCon]The talks were good and the 5x (as opposed to 4x) tracks didn't seem to hurt. Worst case: any talk you missed...
View ArticleSome Odd Observations as a PyCon Speaker
1) Your answer to the first question after your talk will be simple, neat, and wrong.2) That question will have been asked by Larry Hastings.Extrapolation from my experience might fail in your...
View ArticleComparing the Ruby/PHP/Python C Interpreters
The other day I went poking around the Ruby and PHP interpreters (the current stable versions). I hadn't looked inside PHP since the 4.x series and Ruby I had never checked out. Like CPython the...
View ArticleEncouraging Arbitrage in Virtual Economies
I'm always surprised by how different companies conduct interviews - I shouldn't be after being surprised so many times; so my surprise at being surprised is surprising (to be all meta). Today I had to...
View ArticleOn Deployment Policy
Q: Don't we have a policy about drinking during deployments?A: Yes, we always drink during deployments.Q: I thought the policy was "Friends don't let friends deploy drunk?"A: If you can still type how...
View ArticleHappy PyCon to Everyone
I'm in the happy majority of Python commiters that mostly idle except for the scheduled holidays like bug weekends and release alphas, and only awake for the high holidays like PyCon. I'll be speaking...
View ArticlePyCon Detritus
PyCon proper is over and sprints have begun.Language SummitThe Summit was boring again this year, and this is good. The language moratorium is over so PEP 380 ("yield from") is moving forward. The...
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