not waving but drowning

Looks like drizzle is announced now. I’ve spent a bit of time after work and on lunch breaks helping out here and there, and I’m excited about working on a database project again. Why am I working on the project? Average time from when I write a patch to when it goes into the tree [...]

There is some very big news going around that internet thing today: MySQL has switched from Bitkeeper to Bazaar. I wrote up a quick post on the Canonical blog about the same thing, and Giussepe Maxia has a nice technical post about how to get started working with the new system.
Here’s an excerpt from a [...]

And here we are, my second post in which I mention twitter, and wonder aloud what open source software projects should be doing with twitter. I don’t have any well-formed thoughts to foist on you, but I’ll tell you about an experiment I’ve been doing. Last week I started using summize.com to search for conversations [...]

Just discovered something really fantastic about ipython (well, besides all the cool stuff that was already there). It has some neat support for writing python doctests. If you press%doctest_mode, ipython flips into a different prompt that looks like a doctest, with the leading angle brackets. This mode allows you to paste doctest snippets without needing [...]