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yacitus: A Family Holiday Tradition
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Saturday, December 11, 2010. A Family Holiday Tradition. My daughter had a school assignment to write a story about a family holiday tradition, and to collect stories from everyone else in her family. This is what I wrote for her:. I don't recall ever having a Christmas without snow. So it was a shock for me when I came to California and saw people put up lights with no snow. I just always assumed the two go together. I had memorized every present under the tree before we left, so I knew they weren't the...
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yacitus: July 2009
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Friday, July 10, 2009. Two pitchers won this week without throwing a pitch. Two MLB pitchers won games this week without throwing a single pitch. Alan Embree won Wednesday for the Rockies. Pirates right-hander Joel Hanrahan won without even being at the game. In fact, he won without even playing for the winning team. He was the pitcher of record. The game finally resumed Thursday with Washington winning, 11-10, in 11 innings. Links to this post. Friday, July 3, 2009. Children of the Mind. The feature in ...
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yacitus: Baseball Trip of a (Half-Century) Lifetime
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014. Baseball Trip of a (Half-Century) Lifetime. If you're a friend on Facebook, you may have seen photos and updates during the trip I just completed with my sons. About a year ago, my wife suggested I take a trip to visit multiple ballparks to celebrate my 50th birthday (this September). I certainly didn't forget her idea, and from August 2 through 17 I made the idea a reality. I'll spare you the suspense. Here is my overall ranking of ballparks, most favorite first:. If Camden Yar...
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yacitus: November 2016
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Monday, November 14, 2016. I have a hypothetical question for you. But Bob never got along with the executive board (who oversee the day-to-day operation of the preschool- the rest of the board just votes at annual meetings). Most of the executive board recommended someone else eight years ago, and for various reasons never accepted Bob. The board seems to be split. Most members agree that Hannah is better with kids, but about half are excited about Dan's plans for the preschool. Several say they...
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PyPap: Python 401: Some Advanced Topics
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Thursday, April 16, 2009. Python 401: Some Advanced Topics. On Thursday, March 26th, I attended Steve Holden. 8217;s Python 401: Some Advanced Topics. Tutorial. This one wasn’t as mind-expanding as the previous tutorial (or the three I took at PyCon 2008. And none of the material was new to me. But I’ve found re-learning material will often fill in the gaps in my knowledge, and that certainly was the case here. You’ll find the slides at http:/ holdenweb.com/files/Python401.pdf. Width, precision, math .
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PyPap: Book Review: Python Web Development with Django
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Thursday, January 8, 2009. Book Review: Python Web Development with Django. Back in April 2008 I eagerly volunteered to review a “rough cut” of Python Web Development with Django. By Jeff Forcier, Paul Bissex, and Wesley Chun when I read of the opportunity on the BayPIGgies. To a “real” blog, and I will update this review as I read other chapters more carefully then. Which I’ll refer to as TheDjangoBook below) and I won’t be able to resist comparing it to Python Web Development with Django (w...The secon...
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PyPap: Django multiple database API proposal
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008. Django multiple database API proposal. I finally wrote up the multiple database API I proposed at the Django sprint at PyCon 2008, in a post to the django-developers mailing list. Hopefully I'll soon be able to finish the coding I began then and finally create a working patch so the community can play with it and test it. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Django multiple database API proposal. Secrets of the Framework Creators. View my complete profile. FEEDJIT Live Traffic Feed.
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PyPap: October 2008
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Saturday, October 18, 2008. Newbie Nugget: Unit Testing with Mock. I presented my second “Newbie Nugget”. At the October BayPIGgies. Meeting. Since I’ve been working with Mock. Except for the last two examples which I pulled out of my own code. I’ve uploaded the Keynote slides exported to PDF. To save some of you some time, the references I had in my final slide are:. Michael Foord’s “Mocking, Patching, Stubbing: all that Stuff” blog post. The Wikipedia article on mock objects. The first question I remem...
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PyPap: March 2009
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009. I started reading Programming Collective Intelligence. Again on my flight to Chicago for PyCon 2009. I read something in the preface I don’t recall noticing last time. (Though I wish I had noticed it earlier.) Toby Segaran (the author) explains why he chose Python for all the example code in the book. He lists six reasons. Python is:. If I recall correctly, I’ve heard Guido. Himself describe Python as “executable pseudocode”. In addition to the “batteries included”. When I fini...
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