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Google Summer of Code 2009 – Django Testing – Coding Day 1
Among all the excitement of the past few weeks, the start of GSOC appears to have snuck up on me! Started work today on the coverage runner. My progress is easily followed on my GitHub Django fork (until we get real SVN branches). Can’t wait to start posting some real results!
Things About The Chrome Release That Annoy Me
Ok, I don’t want a long rant about this, but 2 things that bother me. We never care about EULA’s. Why care about this one? It’s an open source project so even the most absurd clause ever in the EULA is effectively unenforceable. Stop whining, let the lawyers tell us what it means and stop [...]
Remember The Milk plugin for Mozilla Ubiquity
So I was experimenting with the new Ubiquity extension from Mozilla labs and fell immediatly in love. Needless to say, Twitter integration was great, but I needed Remember The Milk. So, Viola! rtm_ubiquity My Ubiquity Feed Page It’s pretty straightforward, the only command is ‘addtask’ and I think we can all guess its purpose. I’ll [...]
Photoblog Update
A Quick Photoblog Update! Time for real specifics later, but other news includes 2 awesome upcoming events! Utah Open Source Conference (if your in the Utah area, see you there!) Desktop Search Hackfest in Berlin! (I’ll be posing more on my goals for the Hackfest later!)
The Reality of Semantic Desktops: Death To Tags, Labels and Folders
So, I recently saw some more updates on the Gnome Live wiki regarding the evolution of a ‘Semantic Desktop’. I have some bad news people: Its not going to happen. Now before everyone spends 20 minutes explaining all the ways it could, let me clarify my point. It’s a largely unattainable goal, which if it [...]
Bazaar and its Rockage
So, I think most of the open source world has agreed that the DRCS model fits our working style better than the traditional model pushed by SVN and CVS etc. And in this DRCS world we have rallied around 3 main tools: Bzr, hg, and git. And in an even greater display of complacency we [...]
Utah Python Users Group
If your in the greater Salt Lake area and love python swing by the meeting this evening! We’re doing a python editor head-to-head, should be fun!
Mono GSOC Projects: Linq to SQLite
So I noticed that one of the accepted proposals for the Mono project is to create a LINQ provider for SQLite. Major props to this (its something I totally want to see!) and I’m glad to see that LINQ in Mono is going to be its own beast, I love it when the FOSS community [...]
Speaking at UT Code Camp
So, if you live in the greater Salt Lake City area, there’s a pretty cool low key (and free!) conference coming up, the Utah Code Camp. I’ll be doing a little talk on getting data out of HTML with Python (utilizing lxml and twill). If your interested, you can register here.
Sound problems in Ubuntu Hardy
So if your like me, you’ve been suffering through some painful sound problems in Ubuntu Hardy, apparently its a known kernel issue, so just sit tight. However, if your like me (or 90% of nerds) then you need some sort of music to code. A little digging revealed that I did not in fact have [...]