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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.)
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!):
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.
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!
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.
"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
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