We had the 2nd night of PyCon rehearsals tonight at the Boston Python Meetup and it was my turn to practice. My PyCon talk is Stop Writing Classes . The talk presents some examples of code that ...
http://jackdied.blogspot.com/2012/02/pycon-on-charles-night-2.html
The Talk schedule has been published and I'm on it. For which I'm very greatful - I saw the full list of ~400 submissions and there were many I'd like to see which didn't make the cut. NAME DR...
At work there has been a recent interest in explaining tech things in terms non-tech people can understand. Not just because it helps explain tech things to non-tech people but because it also cl...
For programmers of a certain age - those who saw their first internet connection in the 90s - MUDs were de rigueur. Open Source was in its infancy and this new thing called linux came on a stack...
Do read Moshe's How to give an OK talk , esp the Narrative part. It feels quite silly to repeat yourself on every slide but you are preforming live and not writing on paper - so tell the audience...
PyCon proper is over and sprints have begun. LANGUAGE SUMMIT The Summit was boring again this year, and this is good. The language moratorium is over so PEP 380 ("yield from") is moving forward...
I'm in the happy majority of Python commiters that mostly idle except for the scheduled holidays like bug weekends and release alphas, and only awake for the high holidays like PyCon. I'll be spe...
http://jackdied.blogspot.com/2011/02/happy-pycon-to-everyone.html
Q: Don't we have a policy about drinking during deployments? A: Yes, we always drink during deployments. Q: I thought the policy was "Friends don't let friends deploy drunk?" A: If you can still ...
http://jackdied.blogspot.com/2010/09/on-deployment-policy.html
I'm always surprised by how different companies conduct interviews - I shouldn't be after being surprised so many times; so my surprise at being surprised is surprising (to be all meta). Today I ...
http://jackdied.blogspot.com/2010/04/encouraging-arbitrage-in-virtual.html
The other day I went poking around the Ruby and PHP interpreters (the current stable versions). I hadn't looked inside PHP since the 4.x series and Ruby I had never checked out. Like CPython the ...
http://jackdied.blogspot.com/2010/03/comparing-rubyphppython-c-interpreters.html
1) Your answer to the first question after your talk will be simple, neat, and wrong. 2) That question will have been asked by Larry Hastings. Extrapolation from my experience might fail in your...
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The talks were good and the 5x (as opposed to 4x) tracks didn't seem to hurt. Worst case: any talk you missed you can watch on pycon.blip.tv . Speakers were aware that their talks would be reco...
http://jackdied.blogspot.com/2010/03/pycon-wrapup-ii-python-stuff.html
People Hacking is as old as time, and every long lasting organization engages in it. One example of hacking people (and the title of this post) is to tell people you trust them. This "trust cue...
http://jackdied.blogspot.com/2010/02/high-trust-high-responsibility.html
Here are my assorted thoughts on PyCon this year. Long story short: Marvelous. The Atlanta location was actually in downtown Atlanta and not like the Chicago or Dallas PyCons where it was hosted...
If you are giving a talk take the time to watch AMK's How to Give a Python Talk . I posted some thoughts on speaking last year too. For anyone attending: go listen to the Pre-PyCon podcast wher...
50+ members of the Boston Python Local turned out for PyCon on the Charles, Night 2 ; a dress rehearsal for PyCon speakers from the Boston area. Ned did an informal survey of the audience and 1/3...
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The first three Boston PyCon speakers spoke last night at PyCon on the Charles, Night I . NB: If you are near Boston do show up on Feb 3rd for PyCon on the Charles, Night II with Glyph Lefkowitz...
My flight is booked, I'm registered, and I have otherwise been pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed and numbered*. I'll be there for the Language Summit through two and a half days...
As in past years local Python user groups are hosting PyCon speakers to give their talks in a dress rehearsal before PyCon. It is good for the speakers, good for the local user groups, and good f...
http://jackdied.blogspot.com/2009/12/glimpse-of-pycon-in-your-hometown.html
Andrew Kuchling broached the topic on twitter so I think that makes it fair game. For those of you who don't know H.P. Lovecraft wrote the short fiction horror story The Call of Cthulhu in 1926...
http://jackdied.blogspot.com/2009/10/cthulhu-and-python.html
My talk is tentatively titled "Python's Dusty Corners."* It will be a brief overview of all the features in python that you don't need to know about right up until the moment you do. The list inc...
http://jackdied.blogspot.com/2009/09/my-pycon-2010-talk.html
As it turns out one of the marginal items that gets trimmed in a down economy is conference jaunts . PyCon 2010 needs talks, so if you have something interesting to say to a few hundred people th...
http://jackdied.blogspot.com/2009/09/your-talk-proposal-here.html
I'm a Boston based python developer looking for a new gig, full time or consulting. Here are my resume highlights: Co-founded a web analytics & marketing company (Psynchronous Communications ),...
http://jackdied.blogspot.com/2009/08/looking-for-new-gig.html
Playing dominoes is hard. Like playing card games there are many games you can play with dominoes and last night I was exposed to Muggins/Fives . Muggins has a points system and unlike the kiddie...
The ICFP 2009 programming contest started a couple weeks earlier than last year, and unfortunately I only found out about it as it was ending. The challenge is to solve as best as possible in 72...