Today marks the day that I shipped off my office equipment to my former employer. Next week, I'll be starting a new job; one where I'll be working web development in my favorite new language, Python. Looking forward to the new challenges, as it's been a while since I've done …

Rick and I spent last weekend at the 1DevDay Detroit conference, held at the beautiful Compuware building in Downtown Detroit. Unlike conferences like PyOhio, Pycon, or Ohio Linuxfest, the conference wasn't centered around one particular piece of technology, but was instead focused on the craft of developing software.

On Friday …

JoDee and I rode down with Rick to PyOhio 2011 (which was near the end of July this year). I always have a great time during PyOhio, and look forward to meeting up with everyone down there in Columbus. Yes, we vacation in Ohio.

PyOhio has been growing by leaps …

I recently had an epiphany, which may seem painfully obvious to most programmers, but it took me a little while longer to realize.

Under Python there is a module called doctest, which allows you to script an interactive session and look at the results. A sample would be:

>>> print 2 …

I reinstalled the blog after unsuccessfully dealing with the latest Pharma Hack. Basically, this piece of shitcode detects if your site is being browsed by a search engine, and replaces all of your links with pharma spam. Splendid, no? More info is available at Chris Pearson's blog.

Here's a little …