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Jack Diederich's Python Blog: February 2012
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Jack Diederich's Python Blog. What I'm working on in Python, tips, observations, stuff. Wednesday, February 29, 2012. PyCon on The Charles: Night 2. We had the 2nd night of PyCon rehearsals tonight at the Boston Python Meetup. And it was my turn to practice. My PyCon talk is Stop Writing Classes. Things in code reviews I know better why those things are icky. On Ned's laptop which had faithfully delivered his own talk (in HTML! Pragmatic Unicode, or, How do I stop the pain? To say I spent little prep tim...
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Jack Diederich's Python Blog: PyCooooooonnnnn!
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Jack Diederich's Python Blog. What I'm working on in Python, tips, observations, stuff. Friday, December 23, 2011. Normally I'm a Hallway Track. Kind of guy but there are some talks from friends I kinda want to see as it happens as an event: Larry Hastings. Is he old enough to drink yet? Pypy), Armin Ronacher. I'll tell you his real name in trade for a beer), Raymond Hettinger. And that's just the list of speakers I know will be good, there are many more that look good on paper that I want to see. By Dav...
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Jack Diederich's Python Blog: December 2011
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Jack Diederich's Python Blog. What I'm working on in Python, tips, observations, stuff. Friday, December 23, 2011. Normally I'm a Hallway Track. Kind of guy but there are some talks from friends I kinda want to see as it happens as an event: Larry Hastings. Is he old enough to drink yet? Pypy), Armin Ronacher. I'll tell you his real name in trade for a beer), Raymond Hettinger. And that's just the list of speakers I know will be good, there are many more that look good on paper that I want to see. By Dav...
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Jack Diederich's Python Blog: March 2011
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Jack Diederich's Python Blog. What I'm working on in Python, tips, observations, stuff. Wednesday, March 16, 2011. Do read Moshe's How to give an OK talk. Speaking of speaking: I asked a few popular conference warriors (Martelli and Hettinger) how many talks they had given and when they first felt comfy giving talks. They didn't know. I should have asked Beazely and C.T. Brown but they're professors and get more practice in a year than most people get in a lifetime. Links to this post. Every year I say I...
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Jack Diederich's Python Blog: July 2011
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Jack Diederich's Python Blog. What I'm working on in Python, tips, observations, stuff. Monday, July 11, 2011. At work there has been a recent interest in explaining tech things in terms non-tech people can understand. Not just because it helps explain tech things to non-tech people but because it also clarifies to tech people. What the purpose of the thing is. It is a not terrible analogy for technical debt. But the analogy falls down because even in a medium sized project you might have several dif...
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Jack Diederich's Python Blog: Happy PyCon to Everyone
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Jack Diederich's Python Blog. What I'm working on in Python, tips, observations, stuff. Saturday, February 26, 2011. Happy PyCon to Everyone. I'm in the happy majority of Python commiters that mostly idle except for the scheduled holidays like bug weekends and release alphas, and only awake for the high holidays like PyCon. I'll be speaking again this year and I'll be there for the language summit before and two days of sprinting afterward. February 27, 2011 at 3:30 AM. November 5, 2011 at 10:08 AM.
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Jack Diederich's Python Blog: September 2010
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Jack Diederich's Python Blog. What I'm working on in Python, tips, observations, stuff. Friday, September 24, 2010. Q: Don't we have a policy about drinking during deployments? A: Yes, we always drink during deployments. Q: I thought the policy was "Friends don't let friends deploy drunk? A: If you can still type how drunk can you be? Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Python core developer and serial dot-commer. View my complete profile.
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Jack Diederich's Python Blog: February 2011
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Jack Diederich's Python Blog. What I'm working on in Python, tips, observations, stuff. Saturday, February 26, 2011. Happy PyCon to Everyone. I'm in the happy majority of Python commiters that mostly idle except for the scheduled holidays like bug weekends and release alphas, and only awake for the high holidays like PyCon. I'll be speaking again this year and I'll be there for the language summit before and two days of sprinting afterward. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Jack Diederich's Python Blog: PyCon Detritus
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Jack Diederich's Python Blog. What I'm working on in Python, tips, observations, stuff. Saturday, March 12, 2011. PyCon proper is over and sprints have begun. Useful Namespaces: Decorators and Context Managers. Went over well: video available here. And here's the live Convore thread. Another questioner objected to my use of a module named "UnicodeNazi" because it isn't nice to talk about Nazis even (or especially) jokingly. I restated his objection and said he should take it up with the module's main...