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For Some Value of "Magic": Brian Curtin: A Solid Record of Community Involvement

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur C Clarke. Musings from the technological frontier. February 14, 2015. Brian Curtin: A Solid Record of Community Involvement. As a personal #LABHR. Contribution (having already thanked recipients of PSF awards) I should like to bring to your attention a person by the name of Brian Curtin. Blog, and more recently in Mike Driscoll's Pydev of the Week. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). It might have executed a shell escape .

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For Some Value of "Magic": May 2013

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur C Clarke. Musings from the technological frontier. May 7, 2013. A Statement from Adria Richards. Having remained silent since PyCon, Adria Richards has now published a statement. Reflecting on those events, though sensibly without going into specifics. I think it's important that her retrospective view gets some air, so I am reproducing it here with my own comments. This is a good idea. PyCon was started to try and provide...

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For Some Value of "Magic": Building a Hat Rack

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur C Clarke. Musings from the technological frontier. February 13, 2015. Building a Hat Rack. Leslie Hawthorn, Elastic Search’s enthusiastic communities manager, has been involved with open source for quite a while, and has come up with what seems to be a good idea. She's trying to get public acknowledgment for services to open source that often go unsung, and I recommend that you read her blog post. Past answers to random questi...

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For Some Value of "Magic": February 2015

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur C Clarke. Musings from the technological frontier. February 14, 2015. Carl Trachte: Mining Engineer Turned Geek. He has been a PyCon volunteer for a while now, helping others to find what they need and demonstrating by example the helping spirit of Python and open source generally. Carl has done all this with no thought of return, and in doing them has helped uncountable numbers of Python users. Well done, Carl, and thanks!

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For Some Value of "Magic": July 2013

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur C Clarke. Musings from the technological frontier. July 22, 2013. OSCON Community Leadership Summit. I've just come back enthused from having spent my entire weekend working. Secondly, and perhaps largely as a result of the first, the open source crowd began to realize that as the community continues to become more diverse (yay, diversity! We have to stop talking in jargon about things like "cloning git repositories" if we don...

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For Some Value of "Magic": April 2014

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur C Clarke. Musings from the technological frontier. April 21, 2014. I'm still trying to digest the little I saw of PyCon. Sadly I was pretty wiped out by the three-day recording session for Intermediate Python. In California and then the intensive editing work that followed to help the amazing O'Reilly team get the whole thing ready a day before PyCon officially opened. Notebooks are already available on Github. Into the Notebo...

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For Some Value of "Magic": November 2013

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur C Clarke. Musings from the technological frontier. November 19, 2013. MacOS Migration: If I Have to Shave One More Yak . So I decided it was time to update my laptop, the current Macbook Air being three years old and having a tendency to forget that the screen is present. The triggering event was a minor spillage which stopped several crucial keys from working as the beer dried out (yes, I know .). It ran. I then ran the M...

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For Some Value of "Magic": November 2014

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur C Clarke. Musings from the technological frontier. November 30, 2014. 8220;Rock Star” Programmers. In which he concluded that over-identification with the code one produced could, in interesting ways, be counter-productive. Forty years later Weinberg's “egoless” approach, in which mistakes are accepted as inevitable and reviews are performed in a collegial way, remains the sanest way to produce code. Given that...When I think ...

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For Some Value of "Magic": December 2014

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur C Clarke. Musings from the technological frontier. December 9, 2014. Python Training Day Feedback. After a day at The Church House. I am happy to say that the Intermediate Python repository. Is in much better shape to move forwards. Work on the Repository. Which has existed for quite a long time. We eventually worked around it by adding import simplejson as json. With three of us hacking away that work didn't take very long, b...