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February 2007



Interesting turn of events on gentoo-dev

2007.02.27 Tue 10:48 A GMT-07
How many times does this happen? You come back as a developer to a project you founded? That's gotta take some humility. It's my please to introduce to you Daniel "drobbins" Robbins. Daniel is going to work with the amd64 arch team but will proba
Category: linux open source

Pycon2007 observations and thoughts

2007.02.27 Tue 9:56 A GMT-07
They say you know a foreign language pretty well when you start dreaming in it. It's a pretty surreal experience at first. Well, what about when you dream that you are sitting listening to conference talks and the conference is over? (Which happen
Category: python linux open source
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Why Apple really doesn't care about DRM

2007.02.26 Mon 11:23 P GMT-07
Slashdot reports on Apple's anti DRM again. Sadly none of the posters seem to understand why Jobs really doesn't care if Apple has DRM'd content or not. My brother explained this to me the other day and it was so obvious I wondered why it isn't mor
Category: open source
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Lessons in Open Source from the Django project [pycon]

2007.02.24 Sat 9:59 P GMT-07
I feel a little bad for just posting these notes. But I think they can be useful for others. These are notes learned about running an open source project from the Django project. Jacob Kaplan Moss - Lessons learned from Django Arguments for
Category: python linux open source
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Testing Tools Panel [pycon]

2007.02.24 Sat 1:12 P GMT-07
Testing Tools Panel I've blogged about bugs and testing in open source previously, so I was quite interested in this panel. I was surprised because there was little discussion of code coverage, because I think it is quite important for dynamic lang
Category: python open source
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Web Framework Panel notes [pycon]

2007.02.23 Fri 2:44 P GMT-07
Here's some notes from the web framework panel at Pycon, discussing various attributes of the frameworks and why python tends to have so many frameworks. Web Framework Panel Discussion led by Titus Brown featuring: * Zope - Jim Fulton * Che
Category: python linux open source ajax
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Ivan Krstic and OLPC, software bloat and python [pycon]

2007.02.23 Fri 10:32 A GMT-07
Matt's takeaways This was a keynote at Pycon2007. Here are my notes. I thought they are somewhat useful in the current form. Perhaps if I get some time, I'll reformat in a more readable form. He mentioned the 2 for 1 program but said that they a
Category: python linux open source
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Off to Pycon 2007

2007.02.21 Wed 12:07 A GMT-07
I'm off to Pycon tomorrow. Should be lots of geeky fun.
Category: python open source

Arches in the winter

2007.02.20 Tue 11:51 P GMT-07
We were able to sneak away for the weekend and took the kids to Moab. Home to wonderful mountain biking, rock climbing and scenery. We didn't have time for too much, but we were able to get into Arches National Park I'm always amazed at the dive
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In Russia Open Source rescues you

2007.02.08 Thu 10:00 A GMT-07
Given that MS is cracking down on poor Russians (which is weird since rampant piracy of their products only serves to promote their monopoly), I would've thought that some open source vendor would jump in to rescue Mr. Ponosov (head of school mas
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Professional use of iPods

2007.02.01 Thu 9:37 A GMT-07
Just read an article about using iPods the help pitchers in the Majors. The main idea is that a pitcher can watch a video of every at bat with the opposing team members and see where they should throw the ball. And they can do this in between innin
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