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Foo Camp 2011 19 Jun 2011 | 12:29 pm
This year I was lucky to have been invited to Foo Camp in Sebastopol, CA. I had some idea of what to expect because I have gone to Kiwi Foo a few times. All in all, Foo is a very inspiring and humbli...
Erlang Factory SF Bay Area 2011: RabbitMQ Plugins Talk 29 Mar 2011 | 05:37 pm
I had a great time at the Erlang Factory Conference in San Francisco. A co-worker, Michael Vierling, and I gave a talk in writing Erlang Plugins for RabbitMQ. We were able to cover some interesting to...
PyCon 2011: Exceeded My Expectations 21 Mar 2011 | 11:44 am
It had been a couple of years since I went PyCon, but I was very happy with my experience. Conferences are expensive to me, both in terms of the cost of travel, and in the opportunity cost. Essentiall...
F# for Python Developers Talk at San Francisco Bay Area F# User Group 1 Mar 2011 | 07:10 pm
Hi, If you are in San Francisco, like me, be sure to checkout the F# for Python Developers talk by Darren Platt: http://www.sfsharp.org/events/16691924/. If your coming from a Python background, F# i...
Presentation on Map Reduce in F# at the The San Francisco Bay Area F# User Group 13 Jan 2011 | 04:54 pm
Last night I gave a presentation at the San Francisco F# User Group: http://www.sfsharp.org/calendar/15490484/. I went over a log parsing Map Reduce algorithm in F#, and touched on how it could be imp...
I Use IronPython At My Day Job 19 Aug 2010 | 06:11 am
Hopefully I can start an Internet Meme. Microsoft, I use IronPython at my day job. Please continue development. I like C#, and F#, but IronPython is irreplaceable to me. (Note, this is in reference t...
Professionalism in Python or: How To Not Bankrupt Your Company, Ruin The Python Language, and Make Children Cry 11 Apr 2010 | 08:01 am
Recently, I wrote a blog post about Python Quality, that got some comments and spurred an offline discussion with David Beazley. (As a side note, he has written one of the best Python books ever in "E...
My Midlife "Python Quality" Crisis 3 Apr 2010 | 06:18 pm
It has been a while since I have been motivated to write a blog entry, mainly because I have been working 50-100 hour weeks for the past few years in the film industry, working on films like Avatar an...
Funniest Quote About Python in 2009 8 Feb 2010 | 10:34 am
http://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/geek-of-the-week/interview-with-the-scary-dba-–-grant-fritchey/ "What do you see as the future of automating database administration? Will Powershell come to rule a...
10 Ways To Let People Know You're A Bad Python Programmer 26 Aug 2009 | 04:37 pm
1. Write "God" functions These functions often stretch well over several hundred lines of code, and often have some form of action in the title, like "doMyStuff", or "doComplicatedSequence". Also, ma...
