Catherine: pyOraGeek

At Dayton Dynamic Languages last night, we watched a great video, "Git for Ages 4 and Up" . ("WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD - Sma...

Getting used to MySQL has been a real challenge for me. Most everything I know about databases is backward in this MySQL world. In the REAL...

HTSQL slides Thanks to the great audiences at my HTSQL talks at Ohio Linuxfest and Dayton IEEE! (And to the folks who will come see me at C...

I'll be speaking on HTSQL this Saturday at Columbus Code Camp . It was a great event last year, and I'm expecting even better this ...

As I mentioned in my OLF talk, setting up HTSQL is crazy-easy. HTRAF, however - the library that lets you do the gorgeous graphics - takes a...

Thanks to my Ohio Linuxfest audience for your attention and interest! My slides from yesterday are posted: Your Database, Exposed: HTSQL S...

I feel bad for not blogging after PyOhio. I just have trouble finding words. Along with PyCon, it's a sort of family reunion for me. B...

Searching for ways to dump CSV from a MS SQL Server brings up recommendations to buy various third-party tools. Excuse me? Buy tools for...

A life history of unforgettable moments of clarity: 1983: Jesus 1994: Special relativity 2011: Analytic functions I've known for a long ...

We interrupt this blog with a message from my sponsor. One of the cool things about working at KACE is helping make a product that people ...

Tom Kyte of asktom.oracle.com is coming to Dayton on July 14! This is crazy-big for Dayton. Tom is one of the most amazing Oracle experts o...

Thanks and congratulations to Lord Drachenblut and the rest of the volunteer crew for putting on Indiana LinuxFest ! They did a great job. ...

First off, thanks to everybody who was at my Python intro at Millenicon. You can find the talk materials at http://catherinedevlin.pythonee...

It's true: I missed PyCon 2011. Unbelievable. We have a sick horse who can't be left alone even for six hours, and our last-ditch ...

No, I don't mean the MySQL server, about which my feelings are still very mixed. I'm still very keenly looking forward to moving t...

In case you're wondering, my upcoming work for KACE doesn't imply that I'm leaving Dayton. Like most of my coworkers, I'll ...

sqlpython 1.7.2 has been released! Install it, pretend that your Oracle/PostgreSQL/MySQL database is a UNIX filesystem, and have a blast. ...

For almost ten years, I've worked for IntelliTech on contract at Wright-Patterson Air Force base. IntelliTech has been a very supportiv...

This Saturday was the Columbus Code Camp , and I have to say I was really impressed. The quality of the talks - and the audiences - was ex...

As I mentioned in my last post , the big barrier to debugging a Sikuli script with pdb is that, when you enter a debugging command like ...