Catherine: pyOraGeek

I spoke last Thursday at the Indiana Oracle Users Group on "The Command Line Lives: SQL*Plus and Alternatives". I still need to ...

I promise not to make a habit of posting about xkcd . But only because I'm counting on you to read it daily yourself. I printed this tod...

When I first posted about using Oracle XE on Ubuntu , I thought that getting cx_Oracle working with XE was pretty easy. I was wrong! Last ...

Thanks to everyone for your attendance and feedback at my OLF talk! I had a great time! A tarball with everything you need to duplicate my ...

What's this? You haven't registered for LinuxFest yet? But I'm (absurdly honored to be) one of the speakers! Introduction to...

Drop everything and register for It's free - but the registration deadline is Sep. 14 - this Friday! Move, move, move! Ohio LinuxFe...

Have I mentioned that the Dayton Web Standards Meetup is a great group? It's brimming over with good ideas for every sort of web writer...

The Dayton-Oracle mailing list I set up a couple years ago is bearing fruit. The Dayton Oracle User Group is real! We live! We had an or...

I fear I'm about to sound both boastful and ungrateful... but my boss refreshed my work laptop with this monster I have dubbed "De...

Pardon my long absence from the blogosphere. One cause has been that my workplace blocked access to Blogger, all Blogger-hosted blogs, all ...

If you're reading this and you're interested in switching jobs, let me know... ... because I'm constantly being asked these days...

For Feisty, just to learn something new, I thought I'd try Kubuntu (KDE Ubuntu) instead of Ubuntu this time around. And... and... I th...

Introducing a brand-new widget for TurboGears: Extensible CheckBox List! To use it: easy_install xcbl In your controller.py, from xcbl.widge...

What kind of joker thought "BASE POC'S" would make a good column name? Sheesh, MS Access. (Not to mention apostrophe abuse. ...

Part of what got me thinking about my last post is that I'm suffering a little crisis over Larry Wall. I'm really admiring his spir...

Have you had the experience of struggling with a problem for hours, going to ask for help with it, and then realizing the answer to the prob...

As I work more on the Geek Event Aggregator and similar projects, I'm getting really fascinated by movements like microformats and POS...

Thanks to kap_ravi 's comment, I tracked down a surprisingly big and poorly-documented stumbling block for folks using TG with Oracle. I...

One of the things I love most about PostgreSQL is its beautiful error messages. For instance, let's say I've inexplicably forgotten...

I'm having a fantastic time at Penguicon so far... except, of course, for being unable to connect my laptop to the projector for my talk...