It’s that quiet, reflective time in the morning in between the “run around and get ready for the day” and “wake up the baby and prep for daycare”. It’s a new type of time allotment I’m not quite used to yet – maybe it’s reflection time on how crazy things have been this year. New [...]
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Posted 19 November 2007
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This post is not about programming – so skip it if you want. It’s about this weekend – or more particularly, about one of the – if not the most frightening moments of my adult life. As anyone who reads my stuff knows – I have a beautiful almost four month old baby girl named [...]
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Posted 22 October 2007
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Just crossed Reddit, it’s right here – I don’t think poor Titus will ever live down the quote from the last pycon: “I don’t do test driven development. I do stupidity driven testing… I wait until I do something stupid, and then write tests to avoid doing it again.” – Titus Brown There’s a lot [...]
It doth seem that per the main python.org site, Python 3.0 (aka Python 3000, aka “WHERE IS REDUCE?”, aka “There’s a GIL?”) is out and available! Hoorah! If you want to know what’s going on hit up the newly formatted “What’s New?” docs (they use the new-style docs) and read up. For code conversion – [...]
Before I give the links to the videos, I want to give the typical disclaimer: Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are my personal opinions, views, discussions, etc. Content published here is not read or approved in advance by HDS, my wife or anyone else for that matter and does not – in any way – [...]
Earlier this week I was having a small discussion with Doug Hellmann – I had read his announcement about the PyMotw being picked up by OnLamp guys, and saw the LinkedIn link in his blog, we connected and started chatting. A few months ago, Grig had made a similiar post to this – talking about [...]
I saw over the weekend (in my limited time in front of my lonely MacBook) that Doug Hellmann had done another Python Module of the week – this time on the shelve module, a pretty cool module (that I didn’t know about). To quote: The shelve module can be used as a simple persistent storage [...]
Yay! An RSS feed for PEPs! Hoorah! Go Here:Spyced: PEP rss feed is live I tried writing a BeautifulSoup scraper -> RSS maker, but things (babies, work) got in the way. (Via unofficial planet python.)
Well, this should be an interesting ride. Mommy, baby and Daddy along with all three cats are now under one roof. I think all three of us need some sleep. I updated the flickr set with a bunch of pictures. One of my favorite memories so far? The hilarity of right after the birth, I’m [...]
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Posted 04 July 2007
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?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 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 [...]
