Aftermarket Pipes

Moving Pipes

Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:50:24 GMT

Whew.

Fri, 29 Oct 2004 01:25:20 GMT

Back after near catastrophe.

At my last job, we used Python 2.2. After the change of organization, plus a few weeks of consulting, I decided I no longer ... read more

Back to the salt mines

Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:15:44 GMT

Mmm... writing unit tests today. I like Test Driven Development.

However, after using unit testing frameworks in languages with proper ... read more

Can you fly that thing? Not yet...

Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:50:40 GMT

Every once in a while I notice something that reminds me of a scene from a movie. Generally, if it's a movie that has made me think a bit or consider things in a new light (Fight Club, The Matrix, ... read more

The Contractual Obligation Post

Mon, 16 Aug 2004 17:29:36 GMT

It appears that, as it has "Python" in the tagline, this blog is legally required to comment on the current decorator controversy in the Python community.

I think Hans ... read more

O'Reilly and Trackback permission

Thu, 12 Aug 2004 03:16:16 GMT

As a few people have pointed out, "slimy" is rather a harsh word to describe O'Reilly's requirement that bloggers create a O'Reilly account in order to get a trackback URL.

Don't get me wrong. ... read more

Fixing the Mix: Junior and Senior Developers

Mon, 09 Aug 2004 16:08:32 GMT

William Grosso over at the O'Reilly Weblogs notes that "less than 5% of the available positions are for junior developers", and is ... read more

Editing Python Code: The Quest Continues

Fri, 06 Aug 2004 23:30:08 GMT

Exception exceptions.SystemExit: 1C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\PyDS\Tool.py704renderTextWithTracebackhtml = apply(self.renderText, [tmpl, structured], kw)C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\PyDS\Tool.py744renderTexthomeTool=kw.get('homeTool')C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\PyDS\StructuredText.py199renderTextsettings_overrides={C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\docutils\core.py379publish_stringreturn ... read more

Sigmund's Crypt - Doom 3

Wed, 04 Aug 2004 20:35:12 GMT

One of the nice features of the new company is that there are a couple of gamers there. Haven't worked with gamers since... well, since I worked at a game ... read more

On my first day at Vocollect, my boss gave to me...

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 19:50:24 GMT

A talking brick (62k JPEG).

Actually, it's pretty cool: a one-pound, screenless, voice-controlled, talking belt-carried ... read more

Back from the dead

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 19:48:16 GMT

Been nonblogging for a while... first two weeks at work, and no home net access yet. Time to catch up.

UPDATE: Ugh. Looks like switching PyDS installations ate the first three months of my blog. ... read more