I'm more than a little bit OCD when it comes to managing my music collection. It's huge, and I like to keep the files named with a certain pattern so that when I look at the archive I can see, at a g ... Read more
This past week, I had to assign lat/long values to a large batch of addresses we had sitting around in our database. To get those values, I posted to the Google Geocoding API and parsed the resulti ... Read more
Note: This is the second part of a two-part series. The first post is: Contributing to Django Documentation, Part 1: Generating and Editing Documentation Locally Whether or not you have a speci ... Read more
I just returned from this year's DjangoCon, where there was a lot of buzz around two big topics: managing community and improving documentation. To that end, I've decided that it's time to start co ... Read more
I'm not even going to try and do a full overview - maybe if I'd been taking notes nonstop, but otherwise there were too many smart people, too many great discussions, and too many exciting times to ... Read more
Here's an interesting tidbit: Postgres evolved from UC Berkeley's Ingres database, hence the name - "Post Ingres", or Postgres If you've recently picked up a Mac with the Lion operating system alre ... Read more
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 trajector ... Read more
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" ... Read more
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 ti ... Read more
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 p ... Read more