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| 2010 Jun 10. | Grok has book. Book good! |
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| I little suspected the great chasm that lies between the simple act of agreeing to review a book, and the actual exercise of sitting down later to write the review. It feels quite pleasant, really, to jot off a positive reply to the publisher's polite question. One feels magnanimous for… | |
| 2009 Aug 15. | The July 2009 issue of Python Magazine |
| I am home from a relaxing vacation to the Midwest, and while I was gone last week my excellent publishing team released the July issue Python Magazine to the world. I am particularly pleased that two of the feature articles in this issue come from important segments of the Python… | |
| 2008 Dec 09. | Porting a C extension module to Python 3.0 |
| With several packages already advertising Python 3.0 compatibility, it seemed high time to look into releasing my PyEphem astronomy package in an edition compatible with the new language. But I hesitated: how difficult is it really, and how many hours of work will it consume, to port a C-language extension… | |
| 2008 Jun 05. | My NOLA Plone Symposium talk, “the Zope 3 Component Architecture” |
| I have delivered my “Zope 3 Component Architecture” talk to the 2008 North American Plone Symposium meeting here in New Orleans. I want to thank the folks at Enfold Systems both for hosting the Symposium, inviting me to speak, and for generously making it possible for me to attend! Here… | |
| 2008 Feb 23. | Presentations on Buildout and KSS |
| After several frustrating weeks learning how to create, edit, and publish a screencast under Linux (about which I will write a separate post), I have now published screencasts of both presentations that I gave at the PyAtl meetup in January. I opened with a talk about the import statement, and… | |
| 2007 Nov 09. | My November Grok Presentation |
| In this post, I provide the slides and examples from a recent talk that I gave to some fellow software developers at Georgia Tech. Many of them were not familiar with web frameworks, and I wanted to introduce them to two common concepts: the idea of “convention over configuration,” and… |
