A few months ago, I wrote a blog post about contributing to community. A month later, that post was republished by the folks at Red Hat, in their online magazine OpenSource.com. When that article we ... Read more
Austin, Texas, known for its live music scene and hosting of the annual music and technology festival SXSW, is also home to a vibrant startup and programming community. Local Pythonistas are numero ... Read more
I'll be in the newsroom tomorrow night watching as the results come in. You can also see a limited subset of the results here, thanks to the Texas Tribune's embeddable scoreboard: To check it out ... Read more
I learned a few things about homebrew and PostGIS today - things I probably should have learned sooner, but I don't use homebrew that often. I am (or was) in the process of getting my local (virtua ... Read more
Thank you, DC PyLadies, for hosting the first ever PyLadies PyCon Proposal Party! Jacqueline Kazil and Katie Cunningham organized the event, which took place at this year's DjangoCon (September 3rd t ... Read more
The premise I needed to build a reporting tool that reads from multiple databases, but that doesn't write to any of them. There should be only one database that's writable from this report app, and ... Read more
I've recently experienced a personal loss that resulted in my moving from Portland to Los Angeles, but just before I left, I had the privilege of seeing Dr. Jane McGonigal speak at Concordia Universit ... Read more
DjangoCon US 2012 - Washington, DC [YouTube playlist] ... Read more
Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. Okay, that has nothing to do with the subject of this post, but when I tweeted out a request for suggestions for an opening line, that was the most i ... Read more
I was tasked with a fairly simple project: Traverse a directory with several hundred subdirectories, each containing up to half a dozen images of different sizes If a directory already contained a ... Read more