Jul
21

Tell Me What’s Wrong, Please

Due to the fact that I like Linux and open source software in general, it has been a bit of an adjustment to transition to a place where almost every tool or technology I use is provided by Microsoft [...]

Jun
24

Motivate Me!

Ok, more than a cry for help, I want to know what motivates people in the technology industry. Some of you may say…”Oh, it’s obvious. We’re in [...]

May
17

Getting Started with GoogleCode and Mercurial

I put a few of my Python projects on GoogleCode last week and learned quite a few things that I thought I would share. Setting It Up [...]

May
10

Farewell life blood (caffeine)

Caffeine is a staple in computing and nerdom. ThinkGeek.com for example has tons of caffeine products! Everything from caffeinated soap to mugs with the caffeine molecule on [...]

May
7

Python code metrics

Recently at work I’ve been pushing to start tracking some metrics on our python code base. There are a few tools out there like pygenie, pychecker and [...]

May
4

Python GeoIP (python-geoip) cities tutorial

Using geolocation is something that people are doing a lot lately.  You may have noticed twitter.com in FireFox showing a little bar at the top asking if [...]