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While Liz took her exam today, I holed up in the hotel room (for the most part, I dislike NYC) and, freed from the distractions of house and work, busted out my inner geek and started getting traction on a TurboGears project I’d been meaning to start for the past year-and-a-bit.
I’m very pleased to say […]

Since I was unable to attend the sprints, my PyCon experience wrapped up on Sunday. Here are my highlights and thoughts on the third day…
Robert M. Lefkowitz (r0ml), the fourth and final keynote speaker for PyCon 2007, completely and utterly amazed me. As the talk began, I thought we were in for 90 […]

One of the reasons I haven’t been messing much with TurboGears lately (aside from the current heavy development activity and resulting instability and lack of recent docs–plus the week it took me to catch up on the mailing list after a week of jury duty) is that I recently received a review copy of Twisted: […]

Tonight was another fun-filled episode of Clepy, our little Python group that could. I presented “Fun With RSS”, a quickie overview of RSS, feedparser, and PyRSS2Gen, plus a little bit of fun combining the two. David Stanek introduced us to IPython, the Python interactive shell on steroids.
We had some nice discussion of some […]

I should have looked into this stuff a while ago, because it’s entirely too handy and, in a word, pythonic. I will probably rewrite my crufty home-brew LiveJournal RSS parser using Mark Pilgrim’s excellent Universal Feed Parser. Additionally, since I’m not sure if Planet allows easy filtering based on category, and I might […]

Tonight’s ClePy meeting went pretty well; my presentation introducing the TurboGears web framework managed to not bomb and was in fact well received. Some of that I will chalk up to general politeness (thanks to my combination of false modesty and self-esteem issues), but mostly I think it was pretty good. There was […]

I managed to fritter away Friday night and almost all of Saturday with the skill and grace of a consummate slacker, knowing full well that I had Stuff To Do and that by gum, I was going to put it off as long as I could. I had almost forgotten I could procrastinate so […]

Most weeks, I feel like for every N items on my plate, I have enough time to accomplish N-1 or N-2 of them, and I’m generally okay with that. If things slide a little, so what, as long as I get to them eventually. This week, I feel like I can only get […]

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It’s funny how much better life is when you have cats pin you down in bed for several days on end. I’m feeling significantly better, and quite thankful to have shaken off the worst of what by all accounts is the Cold From […]

Ugh. I managed to quite efficiently catch Liz’s cold, so now I am enjoying a day of too-low temp, coughing, sneezing, sore throat, and overall blecchy gunk.
On the plus side, I have had some lovely naps (the cats have even deigned to bless me with their magnificent presence), played a bit of LotR: […]