Blog: 2011

These are the 51 blog posts for 2011. Older is 2010. Newer is 2012. There is also a complete archive.

December 2011

Sat 31:

Keep data out of your variable names   #python

Tue 20:

Happy Hanukkah

Thu 15:

Stop SOPA   #business #hp #politics

Mon 12:

Deleting files, keeping a few   #how-to #unix

Tue 6:

Duplicitous Django settings   #django

Sat 3:

Maintenance hatches   #django

November 2011

Tue 15:

Advanced Mercurial branches   #source-control

Sun 6:

Caveman   #browsers #my-code #tools

October 2011

Tue 18:

For/else   #python

September 2011

Fri 30:

What’s in which Python 2.x?   #python

Mon 26:

The latest HP circus   #business #hp

Fri 23:

Coverage.py v3.5.1   #coverage #my-code

Fri 9:

Online Python exercises   #education #java #python

Wed 7:

Software’s prime directive   #development #tools

August 2011

Wed 31:

Coverage.py v3.5.1 beta 1   #coverage #my-code

Sat 27:

Max is off to NYU   #cakes #friends-&-family

Wed 24:

Stack ninjas   #debugging #hacks #python

Mon 15:

Fog-free goggles   #swimming

Sun 7:

How we do it in Boston   #gatherings #presentations #python

July 2011

Tue 19:

Time travel   #online

Sun 17:

Getting started testing   #presentations #python #testing

Sun 10:

Caged Python   #presentations #python

June 2011

Thu 30:

Photographs and time   #art #photos

Wed 29:

Coverage.py v3.5   #coverage #my-code

Mon 27:

Vi Hart etc   #art #math

Thu 16:

Developer getting older   #me

Wed 15:

Running coverage on your tests   #coverage #testing

Mon 13:

Long-running restartable worker   #python

Thu 9:

Books for Ben?   #books #friends-&-family

Sun 5:

Coverage.py v3.5 beta 1   #coverage #my-code

Wed 1:

Filenames with accents   #characters #python

May 2011

Mon 30:

Grandma O, world traveller   #cakes #friends-&-family

Sun 29:

Teaching (and learning) Python   #places #python

Thu 12:

Running a database from a ramdisk   #databases

Tue 10:

The Walk   #autism #comics #walking

Thu 5:

Microbe cake   #cakes

Wed 4:

How settrace really works, or doesn’t   #coverage #python

April 2011

Wed 13:

Pilkington, LBP, and Inferno cakes   #cakes

Tue 12:

Cog in Matlab   #cog

Sun 10:

A Javascript lexer in Python, and the saga behind it   #django #javascript #python

March 2011

Thu 31:

Obscene cuts   #politics

Sat 19:

Pi Day puzzle solutions   #math

Mon 14:

Two Pi Day puzzles from PyCon   #math #puzzles #pycon

Wed 9:

Quick and dirty multi-threaded Django dev server   #django #how-to

Mon 7:

Hobbit cake   #cakes

Wed 2:

Boston printing office auction   #boston #history #printing

February 2011

Sat 26:

PyCon presentations, Hollywood style   #communication #presentations #pycon

Thu 17:

How to not get reputation points on Stack Overflow   #how-to #online

January 2011

Tue 25:

Cathode   #hacks #history

Tue 4:

The Aporetic’s living history   #blogs #history #politics

Sat 1:

Happy 2011   #friends-&-family #photos