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“Did you mean FOOBAR?” in PostgreSQL text indexing
This is a reminder-to-self kind of post. Chris Rossi and I were talking about some of the “improved search” features we have planned for KARL thanks to pgtextindex and the use of PostgreSQL’s...
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Kinda liking PyCharm
I’ve been tinkering around with IDEs for a while. It’s hard to justify it…every time I try, I spend a tremendous amount of time using the hoped-for new tool, using it for real, only to eventually find...
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Giving a keynote at PyCon DE
Filed under “they must REALLY be scraping the bottom of the barrel to dig up ME“, I’ve been asked to give a keynote at the PyCon DE conference in Leipzig. I’m 15:30 to 16:30 on Thursday, October 6....
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Giving a “Pyramid for Humans” tutorial at Plone Conf, Nov 1-2
Yep, me. Paulie. Giving a tutorial on Pyramid at the conference. Stop snickering! Ok, sure, Dad (Chris McDonough) will be there supervising. But I’m hoping to give a whirlwind tutorial of Pyramid stuff...
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Pyramid tutorial at Plone Conf
Let’s all pretend that this post went out 2 months ago, which would have been a grown-up and mature time to have promoted it. In a couple of weeks I’m giving a Pyramid tutorial at the Plone Conference...
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Humans, Python, web development, tutorial next week
(Aimed at Python folks.) If you’re interested in learning Python web development using Pyramid, and you’re not a framework guru, I’m giving a “Pyramid for Humans” tutorial next week in San Francisco....
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Hackberry, Linux, Python, Minecraft
My son wanted to run a Minecraft Server. I had a old, wheezing, 2006 Macbook, so I set up a Minecraft server for him and his friends. Then I decided to do a little adventure. The Macbook wasn’t going...
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Pyramid Training: Gun for Hire
tl;dr I’d love to go do some Pyramid training in the coming months. Particularly if there’s a chance to speechify. For the San Fran Plone Conf, I put together a “Pyramid for Humans” training course. I...
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Caring about the customer’s project more than about the customer
About 10 years ago my stock-in-trade changed. I started managing projects. Specifically, large projects with distributed subcontractor developer teams. Along the way I developed a mantra that I used to...
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Pyramid 1.4 released with some interesting goodness
Chris McDonough stayed up late last night and got Pyramid 1.4 out the door with interesting new features and, of course, up-to-date documentation. I’ve gotten really interested in the custom view...
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Emphasize Python 3 in Pyramid docs?
Recently I saw that Django 1.5 will have experimental (non-production) support for Python 3, and just saw today about Twisted supporting some Python 3. Someone recently asserted that 2013 might be the...
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I’m doing a Pyramid-Python3 talk at DC Python Feb 5
We’re getting out-and-about more in 2013, talking up Pyramid and whatnot. Starting with, a Pyramid presentation at the DC Python meetup on Tuesday, February 5th in DC, 7PM at Browsermedia/NClud, 19th...
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Python 3 for my PyCon Pyramid tutorial
Going to PyCon? Looking for a good tutorial to sign up for? Interested in Python 3? I’m giving a Pyramid for Humans tutorial at PyCon, Wednesday morning. It’s going to be a lot of fun. As extra spice,...
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Video and source for my PyCon Pyramid tutorial with a twist of Python 3
(Updated: forgot some links.) PyCon was a whole kettle of fish this year, happy bouncy fish that drive in RVs and stay up really late. I gave a Getting Started with Pyramid tutorial at PyCon. The fun...
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PyCharm 3.0 EAP2 supports Pyramid
Confession: I’m an IDE user. Years of Emacs with occasional flirtations with IDEs (Komodo, PyDev) always led me back to Emacs. PyCharm (with the requisite 4 GB RAM upgrade for the Java tax) is the one...
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New blog posts: Chris, Tres, me
Last week, Tres and I wrapped up a little website for Agendaless, based on Pyramid and Substance D. Not very ambitious site, but still a lot of fun working in Substance D. We put up some blog posts:...
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Me on the web, 20 years ago today
September 2, 1993 is my first recorded post about the web, asking a question answered by Marc Andreesen. As backstory, I was a Navy officer waiting around to start flight school. I was part of the “Top...
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Plone runs Brazil
Plone, baby, you still got the power to amaze. I saw this tweet by André Nogueira (@agnogueira): Five days before #Ploneconf, Brazilian President Dilma Roussef Introduces the new brasil.gov.br...
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Recent work with RelStorage
The KARL project has been focused in the last year on some performance and scalability issues. It’s a reasonably big database, ZODB-atop-RelStorage-atop-PostgreSQL. It’s also heavily security-centric...
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Faster relevance ranking didn’t make it into PostgreSQL 9.4
Alas, the one big feature we really needed, the patch apparently got rejected. PostgreSQL has a nice little full-text search story, especially when you combine it with other parts of our story...
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