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class Baby(object):
	self.name = 'Abigail Lorraine'
	self.length_inches = 20.5
	self.weight_lbs = 7

Yes. Abi­gail Lor­raine was born today at 7:50am. Both Mother and small one are doing great and resting.

I can hon­estly say two things:

1> I cried.
2> This is one of the hap­pi­est, and simul­ta­ne­ously more sur­real days of my life.

She’s a squirmer, no prob­lems, noth­ing. I have a pic­ture set on flickr here.

?View Code PYTHON1 2 3 4 class Baby(object): self.name = 'Abigail Lorraine' self.length_inches = 20.5 self.weight_lbs = 7 Yes. Abi­gail Lor­raine was born today at 7:50am. Both Mother and small...

Read­ing this arti­cle:Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails | Her­ald Sun made me want to stand up and cheer — here’s a man (whose music I love) that gets it. I would love to have a “rela­tion­ship” with the artists I care about rather than hav­ing the icy hands of the RIAA and the Records labels pat­ting me down for loose change and cig­a­rettes every time I want to buy/listen to music from those artists.

(Via digg.)

Read­ing this arti­cle:Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails | Her­ald Sun made me want to stand up and cheer — here’s a man (whose music I love) that gets it....

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...

Well that was easy.

I’ve obvi­ously not posted in a ter­ri­bly long time by inter­net stan­dards. Obvi­ously — I have my reasons.

The pri­mary one being: I’m going to be a dad. I found out in Novem­ber. Since then, I’ve had to keep my mouth shut until Christ­mas rolled around (you’re not sup­posed to say any­thing until you’re in the “safe” zone). We’re some­where around 15/16 weeks at this point and every­thing looks a-ok and I have been cleared for pre-announcing the sometime-in-July GA of Jesse 2.0. I’ve already been look­ing up tools and pro­grams to help teach chil­dren pro­gram­ming. (Python, of Course)

It’s been sort of crazy. Between try­ing to plan finances, sched­ules, time off, etc — I’ve also been heads-down-coding-as-fast-as-I-can for the next big ver­sion of the prod­uct at work which means I’ve not had much of a life out­side of code/unit tests.

Know­ing that in a few months I’m going to have a small ver­sion of myself gur­gling and gen­er­ally being a cute-but-pooping-module (my wife might argue the dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion between myself and said baby in a few regards) has been a bit of a trip. Some­times I find myself hack­ing on some low level thing and sud­denly star­ing off into space think­ing about what’s com­ing. To say I am appre­hen­sive would be a dras­tic understatement.

Suf­fice it to say: It’s been crazy.

Luck­ily I’m tak­ing a breath and ship­ping myself off to PyCon in Feb. Look­ing at the sched­ule of talks, I’m a lot more psy­ched about the top­ics than last years — while the over abun­dance of webby-stuff is there (and hell — I signed up for a part of the Django Tuto­r­ial) there seems to be a wider range of “not web” talks going on.

That’s a quick update at least — Not really a minor one at that!

Well that was easy. I’ve obvi­ously not posted in a ter­ri­bly long time by inter­net stan­dards. Obvi­ously — I have my reasons. The pri­mary one being: I’m going to be a...

Another crazy week. I’ve actu­ally been fairly Python-Active, but instead of (again) work­ing on those things I can make public-domain, I’ve con­cen­trated on cer­tain inter­nal project.

Hope­fully, in the upcom­ing months, I can get a release to let me talk about some of the ideas and con­cepts I’m hack­ing on and I can them really start talk­ing about them.

In any case — Based off this entry: Agile Test­ing: Drucker on agility and testing

I picked up a cou­ple of Peter Drucker books from Ama­zon and I’ve started read­ing them. I pre­vi­ously had no knowl­edge of this man, but in start­ing to read this stuff, I see why peo­ple like him (and his thoughts) so much. A lot of it is amaz­ingly applic­a­ble to the space I am in at the moment.

Also — you should check out the Python411 Web­cast — I’ve started lis­ten­ing to the series on my drive, and it has a lot of good infor­ma­tion. Between this and the QA Labs pod­cast, I’m get­ting a lot of “Good Ideas” about Python/QA projects and improvements.

I man­aged to sit down and watch the vid cast for the Tur­bo­gears 20 Minute Wiki — and where I was sim­ply con­fused before (I’m not a web-programmer by any means) now I am com­pletely daunted. Tur­bo­gears looks damned nice — I just don’t know how easy it is going to be for a non-web pro­gram­mer to really get “into” it.

Another crazy week. I’ve actu­ally been fairly Python-Active, but instead of (again) work­ing on those things I can make public-domain, I’ve con­cen­trated on cer­tain inter­nal project. Hope­fully, in the upcom­ing...

“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is
pre­pos­ter­ous. He or she is like a per­son who has put on full armor
and attacked a hot fudge sun­dae.“
– Kurt Vonnegut

“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is pre­pos­ter­ous. He or she is like a per­son who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge...