September 22, 2008
Photo Meme

If I must.

Photo 340.jpg

Instructions: Take a picture of yourself right now. Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair - just take a picture. Post that picture with NO editing. Post these instructions with the picture.

Via Jeremy and Steve H.

Posted to Apropos of nothing by Simon Brunning at 12:21 PM
September 16, 2008
Trickle Down Economics?

It's trickling down now, all right.

Posted to Rants by Simon Brunning at 12:07 PM
September 12, 2008
Off to PyCon UK

See you there.

I might even see one or two people at my talk, if I'm lucky. Though since I'm clashing with Simon Willison, I don't expect many.

BTW, we still need more session chairs. Don't be shy!

Slides here.

Posted to Python by Simon Brunning at 04:58 PM
September 04, 2008
Django 1.0

Congratulations to everyone involved in getting Django 1.0 out of the door. Great job.

Posted to Django by Simon Brunning at 03:40 PM
Apress eBooks

Buy a book from Apress (such as the superb Definitive Guide to Django) and you can get the PDF version for a fiver, so you can keep a copy on your laptop when you are on the road.

What a great idea. I don't want only the PDF - I much prefer to read the dead tree edition. But you can't carry dozens of chunky tech books around with you, so I want the PDF too. Clearly I shouldn't have to pay full whack twice, but the fiver that Apress is asking seems fair.

I wish O'Reilly did this.

Posted to Books and magazines by Simon Brunning at 03:29 PM
My Work Here is Done

I was just called over by Ken and Grant to help them with a problem that they were having with the unittest/Mox test suite that they were putting together, written ahead of the functional code. I feel so proud.

Posted to Python by Simon Brunning at 03:15 PM