Monthly Archives: July 2006

python, python…

Posted on July 27, 2006 by Joe

Just attended a great little talk on Python in Mozilla that really has me intrigued. It’ll be a while before it is fully available, but it makes it possible to plug in python components into Mozilla based apps – including … Continue reading →

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A little new code search

Posted on July 27, 2006 by Joe

Yesterday afternoon, I was lurking about the exhibition hall and stood in a bit for the code search demonstration that OReilly was giving. I immediately asked why they didn’t just use krugle, and they had a pretty good answer – … Continue reading →

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r0ml

Posted on July 27, 2006 by Joe

r0ml, on the other hand, has a great keynote. Very entertaining, with little stabs into all sorts of rediculous little stabs into the absurdity of technology issues. Update: r0ml was definitely the most entertaining speaker, with his interesting little slams … Continue reading →

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oscon 2006 keynotes, day 2

Posted on July 27, 2006 by Joe

So far the keynotes today have really tweaked me out. Simon Phipps was the first. He seemed to be talking about open data to some extent (a common theme around here), but he kept saying things that made me think … Continue reading →

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the temp finally broke

Posted on July 25, 2006 by Joe

For the record, the Red Lion Inn’s air conditioning sucks. At least when they’re sold out and having record temperature’s in Portland. After two days of 100 degrees, the temp finally broke last night. It was far, far cooler to … Continue reading →

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Pyrex

Posted on July 24, 2006 by Joe

I slipped into the end of the afternoon tutorial session Optimizing pthon, and I caught a tidbit about pyrex. Wow – that’s cool! I’d already been somewhat aware of pysco, which does runtime machine code compilation (x86 only). Pyrex takes … Continue reading →

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Oscon Tutorials… django

Posted on July 24, 2006 by Joe

I spent the morning in the Django tutorial, and get a decent bit from it. I’ve been using Django for the past 6 months, but I hadn’t ever moved from the 0.91 release – so it was a nice overview … Continue reading →

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caught!

Posted on July 24, 2006 by Joe

I followed Duncan in to a little backstage tour, and they needed a subject up on stage to check light levels…. The result was a few pics that make me look like I’m speaking at OSCON. I rather do like … Continue reading →

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OmniPlan

Posted on July 22, 2006 by Joe

There was some recent theorizing that the next Omni-Thingy would be a project tracking tool of some sort. I guess it was on, because they let the cat out of the bag today: OmniPlan. One of the guys in our … Continue reading →

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95 and no A/C

Posted on July 22, 2006 by Joe

Today has a very high percentage of being a difficult day. The forecast is for a high between 85 and 95 and the difficult part – it didn’t get much below 75 last night. We rely on the cool-down at … Continue reading →

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