Catherine: pyOraGeek

Wooo, Ohio LinuxFest! My reStructuredText slides are at catherinedevlin.pythoneers.com , down at the bottom of the page. Thanks to everybod...

The Ohio LinuxFest fun starts tomorrow! Here are the Python-related activities there that I know of. Of the Friday hackathon projects, I b...

Since my Windows machine was upgraded from XP to Vista, managing Python packages has become absolutely horrible. Here's what I've p...

Enthought has produced a wonderful tool for getting into reStructuredText: a side-by-side WYSIWYG rST editor. Getting it installed, however,...

In the opinion of most attendees I talked to, PyCon 2009 was the best one yet. If you need an excuse to come to PyCon 2010... well, what be...

Obviously, you can't query BLOBs in a command-line SQL tool. Unless, of course, that tool is sqlpython . Bwa ha ha ha.

It's official - I'm on the schedule! reStructuredText: Plain Text Gets Superpowers September 26, 2009, 5 - 6pm at Ohio LinuxFest ...

Why do we Americans continue to carry around drab $1 bills, struggling to cram mushy, wrinkled paper into vending machine readers, when we c...

My employer-mandated Vista machine has gone almost unused for months because of an infuriating quirk in Vista's command-prompt operation...

It's not official yet - so you can't find it at the Ohio LinuxFest website - but it looks like Oracle will be a sponsor and exhibit...

From "Dr. Kronkheit and His Only Living Patient" : SMITH: Doctor, it hurts when I do this. DALE: Don't do that. Dear Enterpris...

Instrumenting your code - whether with a PL/SQL package like Quest Error Manager as Steven Feuerstein suggests, Python's logging module...

Clearly, it's somebody's responsibility to create a Hall of Fame for database-related comic strips. I may as well start gethering t...

My favorite anecdote from PyOhio 2009: William McVey prepared slides for his Sunday PyOhio presentation using reStructuredText and rst2s5, ...

Todd Trichler from OTN is beginning his half of our presentation while I post... my half's materials are here .

>>> 2009 > (2 * 2008) True PyOhio 2008 had 93 registrants. PyOhio 2009 has more than doubled that number already. Hooray!

Things are really coming together! PyOhio registration is open. 38 people have signed up in just over a day! The talk schedule is up. 25 t...

There's a whole class of programs called "rules engines". The idea is to remove the details of a process from the hard-code o...

As if I need a new ambition, I've got an itch to create and teach a course called "Computer Programming for Secretaries". Sin...

Given a choice between spending an hour doing a task manually, or spending three hours writing a program to do it automatically... a geek wi...