Archive for July, 2007
British Columbia
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007We got back from BC yesterday --- good trip, though the weather was uncooperative. If you're visiting Victoria, we recommend Helm's Inn wholeheartedly --- it's a five-minute walk from the heart of downtown, but quiet, clean, spacious, and affordable (even in the middle of the summer rush). I would also ...
Open Source Awards 2007
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007O'Reilly has announced this year's Open Source awards: Beautiful Code contributor Karl Fogel, for Best Community Builder Pamela Jones, for Best FUD Fighter Aaron Leventhal, for Best Accessibility Architect Dave Recordon for Best Strategist (a nod to his work on OpenId) Paul Vixie (author of BIND) for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution Congratulations to all!
Schema Changes
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007A while back, I posted a handmade picture of DrProject's database schema. Thanks to DB Visualizer, we now have pictures of the 1.2 database schema, and the new-and-improved schema that works with SQLAlchemy and Elixir. Alex and DW are starting work on a migration tool to translate from the ...
Link Soup
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007Links that accumulated while I was on the road: The Art of Computational Science: lengthy (several hundred pages) PDF book on numerical simulation in astrophysics with examples in Ruby. This would be a great counterpoint to Software Carpentry if it was (re-)written in Python... ;-) The Flexible Configuration Management system: built ...
You Can Never Start Recruiting Too Early
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007The NSA (yes, that NSA) now has a web site for kids. It doesn't get really spooky 'til you start reading the biographies of the cartoon characters...
Beautiful Code Now Has Its Own Web Site
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007http://beautifulcode.oreillynet.com/ --- look forward to seeing you all there.
Jane Goodall Speaking in Toronto
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007Dr. Jane Goodall will be speaking in Toronto on Saturday, September 15, at Convocation Hall. Few people have done as much for conservation science as she has; I expect it will be a great talk.
Number One in Programming
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007Today's Amazon stats: Beautiful Code is #244 in books, #4 in computing, and #1 in both programming and software.