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Dear Lazyweb:
I have a number of programming itches that I’d like to scratch that are just slightly large enough that I’d really love to just use something that already exists (if available). I’d spend a while digging around, but, well… I’m lazy, and I’m busy. So hopefully some of you have suggestions. […]

The thing about being a relatively new parent is that life very quickly becomes a complete blur, and after a certain point you’ve no sense of what day it is, let alone how many weeks old your little bundle of joy is. This makes life tricky, since there are certain milestone weeks that are […]

Since everyone else is doing it…

$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}’|sort -rn|head
145 ls
143 cd
136 vim
108 svn
90 jobs
65 %1
50 %2
47 nosetests
47 less
21 grep

%1 and %2 are usually me hopping back into backgrounded vim sessions. jobs is me trying to remember what all I’ve already got open for editing. The […]

Google App Engine seems pretty freaking sweet to me. In short:

write apps in Python
deploy on Google’s infrastructure
access to existing Google goodness like BigTable, email, and authentication
free account can use up to 500MB of storage and serve ~5M page views/month
non-free accounts coming soon
can upload additional modules as long as they fit the sandbox rules

Unfortunately the […]

There’s a lot of excitement on the ClePy mailing list about trying to bring PyCon to Cleveland in 2010. David Stanek is leading the charge, getting folks talking, and planning, and motivated.
Clevelanders who want to help out bringing Python’s premier conference to our fair city should head on over to the bid page on […]

Stairway Originally uploaded by mikepirnat.
The security line at O’Hare was almost non-existent, so now I’ve got a bit of time to kill and (since “free wireless network” doesn’t seem to want to give me any DNS) have the laptop open, it’s probably time to digest and process my PyCon […]

I’ve been looking for a decent chart or graph library lately for a soon-to-be-hatched personal project, and been largely disappointed by the state of what’s available for Python. The freely available choices all felt a bit clunky to me, either in usage or in output (or in some cases, both), and the strongest contender […]

I missed the September ClePy meeting because I was too busy helping my wife fork a child process (there seems to be an awful lot of that going around the Python community lately, based on what I’ve seen on the Planet feeds–something in the water, perhaps?). But I hear that Brian Beck put together […]

Hackers Only Originally uploaded by aaronoliver3000.
Once upon a time, some Python developers here at AG Interactive said, “Gosh, we should totally do one of those fancy Hack Day things.” And they went unto their manager, who said, “What excellent timing, I think we should totally do one […]

For the record (in case anyone was still in suspense about this)… Apparently if you send an email to the USPS’s web tools customer support box saying that nothing you try on their test server is working as documented, you’ll get a lovely form letter about a day later congratulating you on successfully completing all […]