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Still no time to dig through the San Francisco/Napa/Alexander Valley/Sonoma/wedding photos to find the good stuff, as work and other extra-curriculars continue to absorb all available free time. Hopefully I’ll be able to get to some of that this weekend.
Today’s victory: got the green light from The Powers That Be for the topic […]

Last night’s Clepy meeting was a bit shorter than average, but still chock full of Python goodness. Extra special props to Matt Zipay and Brulant for their hosting hospitality, complete with, for the first time in Clepy’s history, live, reliable internet access!
Brian Beck gave a nice introductory presentation on “Releasing Your Python Package” that […]

Tonight was the March installment of Clepy, the little Cleveland Python group that could. We hit what I think is a new attendance record–19 in all! Each meeting gets a little bit bigger, and according to our defacto fearless leader David Stanek, we’re quickly becoming one of the larger Python groups. Nifty!
This […]

PyCon is drawing to a close; our fellow sprinters trickle away to the airport or the highways in little groups of one and two. So it’s time to reflect briefly on the experience (or something). So, what have I learned this year? Let’s break it down, unordered-list style:

Speaking in front of a […]

Having (finally) had some success with Twisted and Jabber, I am taking a moment to celebrate with a bottle of Harp. The NerdBooks.com party was pretty cool, though mellow. They have an insane selection of books — everything from animation to signal processing. As it turns out, they have insanely great prices […]

My head is full of drippy goo, and the wireless network keeps flaking out on me; this combination makes it really hard to focus on getting anything done. In Twisted terms, getting dog-ass sick was a Deferred, and I’m now living through the callback.
Joy.
Small victories today…

Got ahold of Paul McGuire during brief periods when […]

Thanks to the magic of wireless, I can announce (now quite belatedly, as I’ve been trying to pay attention to people’s presentations today) that we survived the Big Scary Presentation. Well, more than survived; it actually went really well, and folks were generous with their compliments. Warm fuzzies all around.

I […]

I’ll update this entry with some pictures once I manage to get something Bluetoothy going that can pull photos off of my phone…
We stopped in tonight to have a look at the ballroom where we’ll be presenting in the morning… and holy cow, are there a lot more chairs than I’d expected, which implies that […]

David and I did a dry run of our PyCon presentation for our tech folks here at AG a little bit ago. The response was solidly positive, and our timing is starting to gel really well, so I am upgrading myself to a level of optimistic anxiety from my earlier complete and abject terror. […]

It’s been a busy, busy week: one symphony, two wine dinners, the year’s massive traffic spike (thank you, Valentine’s Day), two celebratory drinking adventures with co-workers, and I survived a two-hour meeting with our CEO and the SVP that I fall under. Whew!
I got high praise from multiple levels of the chain of […]