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PyCon on The Charles: Night 2 1 Mar 2012 | 06:29 pm
We had the 2nd night of PyCon rehearsals tonight at the Boston Python Meetup and it was my turn to practice. My PyCon talk is Stop Writing Classes. The talk presents some examples of code that were ov...
PyCooooooonnnnn! 24 Dec 2011 | 06:05 am
The Talk schedule has been published and I'm on it. For which I'm very greatful - I saw the full list of ~400 submissions and there were many I'd like to see which didn't make the cut. [To all those p...
Analog Analogies 12 Jul 2011 | 03:54 pm
At work there has been a recent interest in explaining tech things in terms non-tech people can understand. Not just because it helps explain tech things to non-tech people but because it also clarifi...
MUD Nostalgia 6 Jun 2011 | 01:27 pm
For programmers of a certain age - those who saw their first internet connection in the 90s - MUDs [Multi User Dungeons - basically D&D online] were de rigueur. Open Source was in its infancy and this...
PyCon Speaking 17 Mar 2011 | 12:33 pm
Do read Moshe's How to give an OK talk, esp the Narrative part. It feels quite silly to repeat yourself on every slide but you are preforming live and not writing on paper - so tell the audience why s...
PyCon Detritus 13 Mar 2011 | 10:47 am
PyCon proper is over and sprints have begun. Language Summit The Summit was boring again this year, and this is good. The language moratorium is over so PEP 380 ("yield from") is moving forward. The...
Happy PyCon to Everyone 27 Feb 2011 | 12:08 pm
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...
On Deployment Policy 25 Sep 2010 | 08:48 am
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 ...
Encouraging Arbitrage in Virtual Economies 9 Apr 2010 | 04:48 am
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 t...
Comparing the Ruby/PHP/Python C Interpreters 14 Mar 2010 | 03:26 am
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 inter...
