Sigh. Things aren’t quite right in the computer department. Thunderbird is using 170,394Kb of memory after running for 10 minutes. My hard drive is flaking out while at a conference. VPN doesn’t make it out of the conference LAN. Luckily, people are more reliable, friends are still friends and chefs [...]

First day at PyCon 2005. It’s, as usual, interesting. Random bits:

Crowded! It’s bigger than ever, clocking in over 400. It’s caused some headaches of the good kind (catering more expensive than planned, not enough t-shirts, rooms are packed).
Not too surprisingly given the buzz around Python, there are big names (although we’ve [...]

Sitting here at ETech, just after Erik Smartt, product manager for the Python on Nokia product, gave the first real public demo of the Symbian/Series 60 port of Python. The highlight was a PyOpenGL demo (the code isn’t available yet, and the author is not public either). Click on the picture for the [...]

Cal Henderson, from flickr, at the PHPWest conference:
“Avoid code reuse (just a nice typo)”
and, talking about phpxpath:
“phpxpath is great. It’s on Sourceforge, but it’s still great”
and about UTF8:
“Can’t remember what UTF-8 stands for. Something something something eight!”
a bit that made Rasmus and me feel old:
“I think UUencode stands for unix to unix encode — [...]