Speno's Pythonic Avocado

The Blog has moved

Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:24:00 GMT

This blog is now located at http://speno.blogspot.com. That is all.

Hello, I must be going

Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:23:28 GMT

I'm closing up this here blog...for now. The pythonic avocado shall return someday, but I don't know when or how. When it does, I'll post it here.

I will be at Pycon, and this ... read more

USDA to allow Mexican Avocado imports to the U.S.

Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:54:40 GMT

This one is for DeanG. .

And I, for one, welcome our new Mexican Avocado Overlords. Seriously, anything to get ... read more

Domain Transfer: A cautionary tale

Thu, 03 Feb 2005 14:36:48 GMT

My family's domain name was up for renewal, and I wanted to consolidate all the domains I run under one DNS provider for ease of maintenace. I was cautious because I didn't want there to be any time ... read more

A con, a job, and a con job

Thu, 03 Feb 2005 13:54:08 GMT

A con

Yay me! I'll be going to PyCon 2005 though I'll be taking the train to and from home each day, so I won't be hanging around to socialize, nor will attend ... read more

Guido speaks at Amazon DevCon

Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:24:32 GMT

Since I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere else, here are links to notes of Guido van Rossum's presentation at Amazon DevCon.

Guido

Rails, Subways and Pypes

Sat, 22 Jan 2005 03:20:32 GMT

I've been following news of Ruby on Rails ever since it was a blip in the Python world. Ruby makes my eyes bleed too (my poor eyes!), so I'm happy to see at ... read more

Purple Stork - A Python Success Story

Fri, 14 Jan 2005 03:48:16 GMT

I'm delighted to introduce Purple Stork, makers of beautiful custom photo birth announcements. The proprietor is my best friend in the whole world. She "hired" ... read more

BitPim Rocks!

Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:44:32 GMT

I recently got a new LG VX 4600 phone. It's shiny, but I was resigned to another two years without being able to use iSync. Then I read about an application written ... read more

PSF Grants announced

Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:16:00 GMT

The PSF announced the three projects which were awarded grants this year. Ilya Etingof has received a grant to add SNMPv3 support to his PySNMP package. Woohoo!

PSF Grant status?

Thu, 23 Dec 2004 12:16:00 GMT

So when will the PSF get around to announcing the results of this year's grants? I heard word of one project I'm interested in getting approved (yay!), but I'd ... read more

Higher Order Perl

Sat, 04 Dec 2004 12:45:52 GMT

I work with some person who calls himself Mark Dominus and he's written a book that should be out this month. It's ... read more

Python lacks SNMPv3

Sat, 04 Dec 2004 12:37:20 GMT

I really need a Python SNMP module that supports SNMPv3. I've needed that for the past year or so, and I regret not doing something about it myself.

Instead, I spent too much time trying to work ... read more

Let's inventory Python blog software

Fri, 22 Oct 2004 00:53:20 GMT

I searched for a list of python web log software, but didn't find anything. Please help by adding to the newly created PythonBlogSoftware ... read more

Making subversion more like Python

Sun, 17 Oct 2004 15:15:12 GMT

I switched to using subversion for version control at work. So far, so good. However, as a python programmer, there was one obvious missing feature. The --reversion (or -r) argument already takes two ... read more