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PyCon US 2016 Talk – Pythons in a Container
At the end of May, I presented a talk at PyCon 2016, on using Docker with Python microservices. You can imagine the rush I felt getting to present on such a popular topic at such a large and important conference as PyCon! While it took me a while to recuperate after PyCon and Portland both…
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Diving into the Deep End with Python
Where I Stand with Java Most of my professional experience in software development has centered around Java. That should be no surprise as I learnt Java in university, and all the trappings that go with it: Javadoc, the Java Standard API, Eclipse and JUnit. My professional work exposed me to JSP, Servlets, SpringMVC, Struts, JDBC,…
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Hello Again Identi.ca!
It seems that all the cool kids are using Twitter nowadays. Then again what passes as cool now sounds more like either being different for different sakes. Or that you use or do things that are “cool” or trendy or interesting to the mass public at the moment. Rarely the cool, trendy or different thing…
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Ontario GNU Linux Fest 2009
Tomorrow I’ll be going to Ontario GNU Linux Fest 2009. It looks like this year it will be another year for this convention. Not sure why the insistence of adding the “GNU” to the name… Still I’ll be there, checking out as many of the presentations as humanly possible. And doing a thorough raid of…
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New Site for justCheckers
I’m setting up a new site for the justCheckers project. The only real good reason for my working at all on this project, is simply to build a portfolio. As a software developer, I want to show to others that I can code. And that my code is clean, elegant and professional. I also want…
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The Story of the GNU
Last Thursday I received a package from the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Along with a nifty t-shirt, I ordered my stuffed gnu. Now the penguin on my desk has a new friend. The reason for the penguin is obvious, I am big fan of the GNU/Linux operating system. The penguin is the de facto logo…
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justCheckers on Hold – Again – Kinda
I’m putting my involvement with the justCheckers project on hold for a while. Progress ground to a halt when I started to dig into the code. In its current state most of the application’s core functionality needs reworking. Meaning to go forward someone would need to reimplement slides and jumps that allows for multiple jumps…
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RMS Does Toronto
Yesterday I got to finally meet Richard Stallman (RMS) in person. And yes, he is a way cooler dude than many in the “open source” gang say he is. The FSF announced a while back in a press release, that RMS would be speaking at UofT on the topic of copyrights in a networked world.…
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Open Source Gamer Goes to Ontario Linux Fest 2008
Last, last weekend (October 25) I attended my first conference, Ontario Linux Fest 2008. And what an awesome event it was! The event turned out be a somewhat low key event. Not a huge number of exhibitor booths, but the Eclipse, Fedora, FOSSology, FSF, OpenStreetMap and Drupal people had setup shop there. The event featured…