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Pythonistas in Portlandia – PyCon US 2017
Apologies for being silent these past few months. I tried to concentrate on launching a product earlier in the year, and I was hopeful that I would get it out soon. Unfortunately it didn’t work out and I will have to shelf development. That said, I am looking forward to going to Portland and PyCon…
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So much Writing and Coding… so Little Time
I must apologize to regular readers of my blog, that I have been slacking. I plan on writing a blog entry once a week, and even though this one is late, I am trying to keep my promises. At least one should keep promises to one self. And I apologize if this entry is a…
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PyCon CA 2016 – The Art of Writing Wargames in Python with Kivy
Intro Last year in November, I presented a talk about Kivy at PyCon Canada 2016. I talked about my experiences working with Kivy in the context of writing a strategy game. I discussed the various UI frameworks available to a Python developer, and why Kivy is currently the best choices for UIs in Python. Especially…
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Encrypt All the Things!
This week has been a rough one for me, so I’ll keep this blog entry short. However I am pleased to announce that after a bit of struggle, I have setup HTTPS on all my sites, including this one. Thanks to Let’s Encrypt and specifically the acme-nginx project to making that possible. Getting everything setup,…
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Resolving WordPress Login Issues after Domain Name Move
This week’s entry will be a short one, since I am in the middle of getting things organized, and preparing for launching my first ever product. (More about that on a later post.) One of the things that bite my recently, is that I was unable to login into one of my WordPress sites. For…
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2017!
Hey Readers, Sorry for the delay between posts. I went on an unannounced hiatus, just because of the busyness of last year. However I am back, and I will return to my regular posting schedule of once a week, most likely either Wednesday or Thursday morning. Also I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas (or…
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Avoiding Blank PHP Responses after upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04, and php7.0-fpm
Earlier this week I finally made the plunge to upgrade my VPS to Ubuntu 16.04. With a minor hiccup surrounding supervisord (which I probably can avoid if I go the systemd route) not being enabled at boot, the upgrade was simple for both my WSGI and Node webapps. I can not say the same thing…
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Selling Off Some Domains
I was going to write about why needing an app isn’t a good way to try get into business. (Hint: It is very expensive, if you can’t code it yourself.) However something else popped up, namely I am trying to sell off two domains: justcheckers.org and justcheckers.net that I own. These were for the justCheckers…
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See you at PyCon Canada 2016!
I’m looking forward to PyCon Canada 2016 that will be happening November 12-13 in Toronto. I submitted two talk proposals and I’m hoping that one of them gets accepted. But regardless I am looking forward to the conference. If you are at the conference, and you want to meet up just message me via Twitter…
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Rust, a New Toy Opening New Possibilities
I have not had a chance to blog in a while. Aside from the usual busyness of life, and the occasional bouts of illness, I have been distracted by a few new thing I’ve been learning: Rust, Kivy and Electron. I’ll write about Kivy and Electron in a future post. And a lot of that…