The EuroPython 2012 (July 2-8) is halfway through and is looking good! Alas, I’m not there myself since tickets are a bit too expensive for my budget, but they are providing a live streaming-cast which I enjoy very much! Thery’re also uploding these talks on their youtube channel. If you’re intrested check the schedule to see what’s going on.
Opening up
Today I stumbled in the new Octopress and decided to give it a try, it also seemed like a good opprtunity to try Heroku since there’s this handy guide. I know that I should have at least tried the Heroku service alredy, but free time is a rare commodity. Octopress leaves the source code in my own hand and that is a wonderful feeling. I can also post or do whatever I want with my most beloved t...
My first Django deploy adventure
I’ve tried the dotcloud free account for about a month now, and I must say that is very good for staging. Since I’m in Europe I’ve tried the alwaysdata free account too, but on the very first day I tried to show my client my work, they gave me an error (app not found or somthing like that, it was their fault not mine!). So, even though thay seemed a professional service it was a big no for me....
A quick jump into Twisted
I recently had to deal with twisted code, everything was already set up since I was writing a plugin. I never delt with asynchronous programming or twisted before, so my first problem was understanding what all those addCallback where doing. First of all addCallback is a method of defer.Deferred objects that expect as argument a callable (a function). A must to read is the official Deferred Re...
Angry Birds are going into space
How many of you can say to have fired an Angry Bird with a slingshot in a microgravity environment? Well, the astronaut Donald Pettit on the Internationl Space Station has! Don is 56 years old, his ISS Expedition was launched on December 21, 2011. He’s scheduled to be on the ISS until May 2012 and it looks like he knows how to enjoy his time up there :)