Burgers and Beer
A great time was had by all at The Counter this evening. We had an all time high turn out at near 100%! Several new faces joined today as well. Perhaps the time/date change was helpful? Alex was able to make it out from DC. He brought me up to date on Python Packges and the near term plans. pyDanny(original nova Django coordinator) and Audrey made it out from LA. They provided some great insight on Meetups and [...]
NOVA Python January
Today’s meetup went pretty well. Kenneth Reitz gave his Python for Humans talk. The main focus (I felt) was on PEP 20′s “There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it”. The major problem being that new adopters are faced with multiple choices to do everyday things like file system access and web requests. Some of these choices are old (urllib2) and deprecated (easy_install). We discussed Python 3k and its unicode [...]
First Hire
We’ve just recently completed our first full time development hire for Cirrusworks! This increases our stateside My experience was not entirely what I expected so I wanted to share my notes about the process. I used two types of job ads, and posted to three different boards. I’m interested to hear other’s experiences in today’s hiring process as well. I want to know if the hiring process has changed from just a few years ago. [...]
What is Bandwidth
I typically abhor comparing computer items to “real world” items; your computer is not a house and your network isn’t a neighborhood. However bandwidth is amazingly like a highway and I’d like to talk about it here because, frankly, I’m tired of talking about it at 3am with the sales team. Bandwidth is like a highway because the more lanes you have, the more cars can travel through. The more bandwidth you have, the more [...]
