Floyd Marinescu asked me to organize an open-spaces session at the QCon Conference in San Francisco. I learned interesting things at both open spaces and regular sessions.

We recently moved "Python 3 Patterns & Idioms" from Launchpad to BitBucket. Here's why.

A useful collection of observations about our profession.

Mark March 2-6 on your calendar.

Most build systems start out with dependencies, then realize they need language features and eventually discover they should have started with language design.

Headhunters are like travel agents, except that it's taking the web longer to make them go away.

The decorator mechanism behaves quite differently when you pass arguments to the decorator.

This amazing feature appeared in the language almost apologetically and with concern that it might not be that useful.

I've been thinking more about podcasting lately, but I haven't done it because I'm too lazy to go through all the steps. Someone must have simplified this!

Because the "Python 3 Patterns and Idioms" book project is distributed, I created a blog for everyone to give scrum-like reports. Did I just invent something?

I think the Smalltalk model was way ahead of its time. My vision is to move completely away from the idea of different kinds of storage.

Of course I'm asking the wrong crowd here -- you're watching the weblog. Still, you might have some ideas.

While I was in Brazil, I was interviewed for a Brazillian technical magazine, and the issue was just published.

You know the bad feeling when you start looking at a Java code base that's just wrong. Proving it is something else again. Here's one way to show it.

If Python's what I want to do, I should write that book about it. Herein I muse about how to create a book relying largely on community input and help.