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Change the Future - one small slice of PyCon US 2013 22 Mar 2013 | 05:38 am
I'm currently kicking back in Red Hat's Mountain View office (I normally work from the Brisbane office in Australia) after a lovely lunch with some of the local Red Hatters, unwinding a bit and reflec...
Python Language Summit - PyCon US 2013 14 Mar 2013 | 06:28 pm
My notes from the PyCon US 2013 Python Language Summit are up on ReadTheDocs. Courtesy of Vinay Sajip, I've also found out how to integrate DISQUS comments into my Python Notes pages, so feedback can...
A Sliding Scale of Freedom 26 Feb 2013 | 07:45 pm
Spideroak's launch of Crypton prompted an interesting discussion on Twitter between myself and a few others. This mostly involved some fairly common "open source" versus "free software" objections to ...
PyCon India 2012 21 Nov 2012 | 12:29 pm
Inspired by Noufal Ibrahim's recent article on the general state of the Python community in India, I've finally written this belated report on my recent India trip :) At the end of October, I had the...
Python's Future: A Global Perspective 1 Oct 2012 | 11:02 pm
Is Python's future currently at risk? (TLDR: No) Calvin Spealman recently posted his thoughts on various aspects of where he sees computing in general heading, and his concerns about where Python may...
Volunteer developed free-threaded cross platform virtual machines? 11 Jul 2012 | 10:58 am
Since writing my Python 3 Q & A, including some thoughts on why the CPython GIL isn't likely to go away any time soon, I've been pondering the question of free-threaded cross platform virtual machines...
The title of this blog 3 Jul 2012 | 11:41 am
This article in praise of taking the time for idleness does a good job of articulating some of the reasons behind the title of this blog. I'm very jealous of my idle time - I don't like it when I have...
Some thoughts on else clauses in Python's loops 8 Jun 2012 | 08:18 pm
Prompted by a thread on python-ideas, I published some thoughts on understanding the behaviour of else clauses on Python's loop statements. Apologies to RSS users, I still don't have a good setup for...
Django's CBVs are not a mistake (but deprecating FBVs might be) 30 May 2012 | 09:40 am
This interesting piece from Luke Plant went by on Planet Python this morning, and really helped me in understanding many of the complaints I see about Django's Class Based Views. That problem seems to...
An embarrassment of riches 23 May 2012 | 02:55 am
Years ago (but still within the last decade) I was involved in a source control trade study for a large multi-national corporation. Management had let a non-software developer select the original "sou...
