Goodbye Tabblo
31 January
A short recap of my history with Tabblo, a photo-sharing, storytelling site: I joined the startup in January 2006, we were acquired by Hewlett-Packard in May 2007, and I left HP in December of 2010. » more..
Slim comparisons
26 January
Hanging out in the #python IRC channel today, I learned something new about Python comparisons. It isn't so much a new detail of the language, as a way to make use of a detail, a clever technique that I hadn't seen before. » more..
Decorated fabric over the edge
10 January
Like many, I use Fabric to write deploy procedures, but I feel like I'm doing it wrong. Fabric is fundamentally based on the ideas of "hosts" and "tasks". » more..
Safari buys Threepress
9 January
For the last year, I've been doing a lot of freelance work for Threepress on Ibis Reader, their HTML5 e-book platform. The good news out this morning is that they have been acquired by Safari Books Online. » more..
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Code
software for your use
- ▫ Aptus ·· a Mandelbrot set explorer
- ▫ coverage.py ·· for measuring Python code coverage
- ▫ hyphenate ·· for hyphenating words with the Liang/Knuth algorithm
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longer writings
- ▫ Stopping spambots with hashes and honeypots ·· no more CAPTCHAs
- ▫ Exceptions in the rainforest ·· where throw and catch fit it
- ▫ A good thing about autism ·· a view from the trenches
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