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I’m sick of typing this, too… 2 Aug 2012 | 02:31 am
So, I’m also sick of Chik-Fil-A. American free speech, quite simply, means the government won’t silence you. You know, like they did in the USSR (or CCCP, for my Russian friends) back when you called ...
Because I’m Sick of Typing This… 25 Jul 2012 | 10:55 am
I got into Yet Another Social Network Argument© recently regarding gay marriage. Quite honestly, I’m sick of it. No, I’m not sick of gay marriage. I’m sick of the opposition to it here in the United ...
Debugging Your Python With GDB (FTW!) 20 Apr 2012 | 11:39 am
In this post we’ll take a look at how to debug your Python code using GDB. It is a handy thing to understand, especially if you’re confronted with an unexpected SEGV or other less than helpful error. ...
How do those nesty-scopy things work for ya? 2 Apr 2012 | 06:22 pm
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been asked about closures. What are they? How do they work? How do I create one? Like any good nerd, I’ve decided that that makes it worthy of a blog post. So, here we...
Post-PyCon Depression 13 Mar 2012 | 08:35 am
I was able to attend my third PyCon this weekend in Santa Clara, CA. Usually, I step through each talk that I’ve attended and document my thoughts. A large review post, really. High points and low p...
Learning Go (and reflect-ing on what’s possible, too) 24 Feb 2011 | 06:53 pm
It’s been a few days since my last Go post; my apologies. I know everyone out there was feverishly clicking refresh. Relax my babies, there’s more content on the way. This time, we’re going to look in...
Learning Go (and serializing objects with it, too) 18 Feb 2011 | 09:59 am
I had intended to make my next target the Go RPC services, simply because RPC is cool. Nothing makes me happier than pressing a button on machine A while watching the LED on machine B flash. Nothing. ...
Learning Go (and integrating with inotify, too) 17 Feb 2011 | 05:58 pm
Go provides a native interface into the Linux inotify system. What’s inotify? According to the man page, the inotify API provides a mechanism for monitoring file system events. It can be used to mon...
Learning Go (and hitting C libraries with it, too) 16 Feb 2011 | 08:50 am
Update: This is already underway in a real fashion. Check out go-python for more information. Looks like a solid project! Being the type of guy that doesn’t like to learn anything at the surface leve...
Learning Go (and reading Tar files with it, too) 15 Feb 2011 | 05:52 pm
Over the past couple of days, I’ve taken an interest in Go. I’ve gone through the bulk of the documentation. I’ve read the tutorial, the Effective Go documentation, and a collection of other works ava...
