My company’s hiring: Operations lead, individual contributor


IP Street is looking for more Operations talent. We're building a very cool data mining product for intellectual property. The technology stack is almost all open-source, built on top of Python and Django. We're hosted in a managed hosting/cloud provider at the moment, running on Ubuntu 10.10. We are looking for Operations talent at the … Continue reading My company’s hiring: Operations lead, individual contributor →

Seattle – Atlanta bus trip podcast


Rick Harding of Lococast.net and Mike Pirnat from the From Python Import Podcast interviewed me about my PyCon 2011 bus trip. Listen to it here.

PyCon 2011, Day 3


A live blog of the day.. 1611: That's all, folks! Will now figure out what to do before leaving to return home tomorrow. And I have some ideas for how to spend my time on the bus; I need to flesh those out. 1430: Lightning talks and closing remarks. 1340: Hidden Treasures in the Standard … Continue reading PyCon 2011, Day 3 →

PyCon 2011, Day 2


A live blog of the day. 1745: Lightning talks. 1645: How to kill a patent with Python. A talk directly relevant to my IP Street work. He claims that a patent's abstract and background are the most relevant for domain searches. He developed display graphs very similar to a couple of IP Street's lenses. 1545: … Continue reading PyCon 2011, Day 2 →

PyCon 2011, Day 1


A live blog of the day. 1750: Back in my hotel room. Going to get dinner in the hotel, then decide what to do. Might chill early — must pace myself... 1722: End of the formal sessions. Now there are lightning talks, BOF sessions, and I'm wondering how long keep going before calling it a … Continue reading PyCon 2011, Day 1 →

Django Cloud Browser


Ryan's released a new version of his Cloud Browser application to PyPi. It supports S3 and Rackspace Cloud Files. Read his blog for the details.

PyCon 2011 Tutorial Day 2


A liveblog of the day. 1316: Documenting Your Project with Sphinx. I could read the docs, but I like being spoon fed. This tutorial's a little more basic than what I was looking for. Still useful, though. 0828: Warming up the matter/anti-matter warp cores. Settled in for Python/Django Deployment Workshop. JKM is presenting, and he's … Continue reading PyCon 2011 Tutorial Day 2 →

AT&T tethering cross-country


I tried AT&T tethering during my bus trip to PyCon 2011. My bus stayed on the highways, for the most part. The results: It was trivial to set up When it worked, it worked well Through most of Washington State, all of Idaho, 95% of Montana — in fact, through most of all the way … Continue reading AT&T tethering cross-country →

PyCon 2011 Tutorial Day 1


A liveblog of the day... 13:12: Getting set for Advanced Python II. Unicode, the broccoli of my world. 0845: Settled in for Advanced Python I. Minor network glitch when I forgot to disable my static IP address, which our home network backups need. Wow this talk was excellent. This year I'm monitoring only the Twitter … Continue reading PyCon 2011 Tutorial Day 1 →