Ryan Day

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 [...]

NOVA Python January

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 [...]

First Hire

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 [...]

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 [...]

To Those That Show Up

Just read a blog post about how 95% of all blogs are abandoned within 120 days. It makes me think about how so much of what you see every day isn’t necessarily done by the best and brightest of people in whatever field/industry created whatever it is that you’re looking at. Its that life goes [...]