About: I'm a programmer/web developer, involved mostly with the Python community. I work at The Open Planning Project (TOPP) where I do open source programming full time, mostly around content management issues. TOPP itself is a non-profit developing web-based tools for community activists.
Blog Posts
My Experience Writing a Build System
--Lately there’s been some interest in build processes among various people — Vellum was announced a while back, Ben has been looking for...
Thoughts About the Erlang Runtime
--I should preface this entire post by noting that I haven’t used Erlang, just read about it, and I handle most concurrency using Python thread...
Which way?
--Do you believe the world is (a) getting better, or (b) getting worse? Please explain. Please, no more "both/neither" answers: choose just one
pdb in the browser
--People have asked me a few times about evalexception and pdb — they’d like to be able to use something like pdb through the browser, st...
The GPL and Principles
--For the most part by the time I finished writing my last article on licensing I had mostly convinced myself that the GPL isn’t a practical li...
Governance
--It occurred to me… Django is something like a dictatorship… or maybe an oligarchy. At first it seems like Pylons is the same… bu...
Choosing a License
--I thought I’d take some time to talk about licensing. Licensing is something that F/OSS programmers talk about a lot. There’s two majo...
“Something Must Be Done”
--Listening to Tavis Smiley’s show tonight, and the segment My America where they talked about gun violence. At one point they quote a man who...
WebOb Do-It-Yourself Framework
--My old do-it-yourself framework tutorial was getting a bit long in the tooth, so I rewrote it to use WebOb. Now: the new do-it-yourself framework.
App Engine and Pylons
--So I promised some more technical discussion of App Engine than my last two posts. Here it is: Google App Engine uses a somewhat CGI-like model. ...
Bookmarks:
YAML Builder | A tool for visual development of YAML based CSS layouts
Yet Another CSS framework, but with a nice builder and seems more reasonable than a couple I've seen
CS-TR-02-9: Notes on Postmodern Programming
An interesting position paper
pyx Spawning 0.1 Released
Yet Another HTTP WSGI server.. Should be fast, but more interestingly is worker processes with code monitoring etc (like paster --reload, but probably more efficient and usable in production).
AboutMinitage – minitage – Trac
Yet Another Python Build Tool. This one based on buildout, but maybe closer in scope to fassembler (and making buildout be of the scope of one fassembler projecct)
Aza’s Thoughts: Vote! How to Detect the Social Sites Your Visitors Use
A very clever hack to detect which social sites you use, to show just the badges a visitor might care about
subversion: Subversion 1.5 Release Notes
Lots of good things, we should try to get updated soon.
Network
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Chris Calloway (mutual) friend |
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Brian Dorsey (mutual) friend |
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Kevin Dangoor (mutual) friend |
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Ted Leung (mutual) friend, want-to-meet |
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Michael Foord (mutual) friend |
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Chris McAvoy (mutual) friend |
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Luke Opperman (mutual) friend |
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Mark Ramm (mutual) friend |
Comments
Ian: looking forward to seeing you again and sharing a pint or two. Also we never got round to that interview - will there be time after the main con?
Hopefully you know of a good place for some classic Chicago style pizza.... and of course an appropriate pub for St Patty's day ;)
after all these years =]
