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Why I don't feel so bad 20 Feb 2013 | 02:45 pm
Yesterday I came across a post titled The Python documentation is bad, and you should feel bad. It made me feel a little bad, but not too much. Here's why. Weighing in at over 2,000 words, it makes a...
Growth in Diversity 16 Jan 2013 | 02:00 pm
Tarek Ziadé recently announced the schedule for the Python track at FOSDEM 2013, where he’s one of the organizers. They have some interesting talks lined up by some excellent speakers, so if you’re go...
The Year of the Snake 2 Jan 2013 | 02:00 pm
If you know your Chinese Zodiac calendar like I do, you know that 2013 is the year of the snake. While they don't specify the type of snake, I think they mean Python. 2012 was a pretty good year arou...
A How-To on Setting Back Diversity, or, “we hired women to bring you beer” 21 Mar 2012 | 12:18 pm
What a horrible month it has been for diversity in technology. March started off with an awful article on “Brogrammers”, and today the Boston API Jam, hosted by Sqoot of New York, took their turn at r...
A How-To on Setting Back Diversity, or, “we hired women to bring you beer” 21 Mar 2012 | 04:18 am
What a horrible month it has been for diversity in technology. March started off with an awful article on Brogrammers, and today the Boston API Jam, hosted by Sqoot of New York, took their turn at rui...
minidumper – Python crash dumps on Windows 29 Sep 2011 | 08:04 pm
If you’re writing software on Windows, you’ve likely come across “minidumps“. They’re a great help when your project encounters a crashing scenario, as they record varying levels of information to hel...
minidumper - Python crash dumps on Windows 29 Sep 2011 | 01:04 pm
If you're writing software on Windows, you've likely come across minidumps. They're a great help when your project encounters a crashing scenario, as they record varying levels of information to help ...
PyCon 2011 CPython Sprint Newcomers 17 Mar 2011 | 02:35 am
Following up two tutorial and summit days, then three days of the conference, the sprints got off to a great start on Sunday evening. I’m back at home now but wanted to put together a summary of the f...
PyCon 2011 CPython Sprint Newcomers 16 Mar 2011 | 07:35 pm
Following up two tutorial and summit days, then three days of the conference, the sprints got off to a great start on Sunday evening. I'm back at home now but wanted to put together a summary of the f...
FileSystemWatcher on Python 2 26 Feb 2011 | 08:11 am
Alright, alright, you guys win. Enough people emailed me to say they would use a 2.x version of watcher from my previous post, so here it is: version 0.2 now supports Python 2. The changes are pretty...
