It's time to revive this blog. It's been too long since I've written about anything pertinent to programming - it's not that there hasn't been a lot happening, but life has been busy and my trajectory has been a little flat (which is to say, nonexistent). As far as work ...

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Women Fed Up With Open Source Community Creeps [Jezebel]

The above article, published back on December 4th, was a follow-up to Valerie Aurora's piece "The dark side of open source conferences" [LWN]. I'm a few weeks late in ...

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Let me start with this proviso: Math is not my strong subject (okay, just stop right there with the Barbie jokes). I'll do just about anything to avoid writing complex equations. And most of the time, I don't have to. Most of the time, I can find alternative solutions, dependent ...

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My mission was simple - to crawl all of our artist databases, extract names and email addresses from a couple of different tables, and spin out some custom XML.

The tables - one for complete user profiles and another for users who have signed up to receive emails only - ...

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A few days too late ...

1. What's the coolest Python application, framework or library you have discovered in 2009?

PIL. Okay, maybe it wasn't exactly a new discovery, but I'd never used it before to the extent that I did in the last quarter of 2009, and ...

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