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It’s been lit­tle while since I ‘logged — after PyCon I’ve essen­tially been in a head-down crunch mode at work. That — com­bined with the fact I moved and I’m expect­ing a baby (and I’ve been prep­ping for that) it’s been pure madness.

That being said — I ended up decid­ing that mov­ing off of blogspot and onto my own hosted appli­ca­tion would be good. True — I copped out and ended up set­ting up Word­Press — but that’s a stop-gap until I can deploy Django and BSB (build some­thing better).

The nice thing about Word­Press is the same thing I love about open-source in gen­eral. If you have an itch — some­one prob­a­bly have already scratched it. For exam­ple, there’s a wealth of plu­g­ins that allow me to do pretty inline past­ing of python code (hoorah!):

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import pickle
 
data1 = {'a': [1, 2.0, 3, 4+6j],
         'b': ('string', u'Unicode string'),
         'c': None}
 
selfref_list = [1, 2, 3]
selfref_list.append(selfref_list)
 
output = open('data.pkl', 'wb')
 
# Pickle dictionary using protocol 0.
pickle.dump(data1, output)
 
# Pickle the list using the highest protocol available.
pickle.dump(selfref_list, output, -1)
 
output.close()

The nice thing is that my host gives me com­mand line access and Python 2.4 — that’s all a guy really needs, right? Oh, and I can serve sub­ver­sion and do all sorts of inter­est­ing things.

I’ve had maybe 15 or so blog posts started in the past few months — I never got to finishing/cleaning them up. That being said — hope­fully I’ll be a bit bet­ter. Wife and baby doing well, job going well, fast and so much going on in the tech community.

For all the faults we see in every­thing day to day — it still is a good — and inter­est­ing (and excit­ing) time to be alive, don’t you think? Maybe hav­ing a kid inbound has induced some sort of mad­ness in me.

It's been little while since I 'logged - after PyCon I've essentially been in a head-down crunch mode at work. That - combined with the fact I moved and I'm expecting a baby (and I've been prepping for that) it's been pure madness. That being said - I ended up deciding that moving off of ...