2008 in review
Wow, time flies, it's 2009 already. Here is 2008:
- Changed jobs because Humanware essentially shut down their New Zealand operations last January.
- Had six weeks off last summer between jobs, did some cycling and photography.
- Wrecked my bike and sprained my wrist when I was knocked off my bike in a roundabout on the way home from work.
- Started using Git, which changed everything I thought I knew about source control.
- Lost both my paternal grandparents (one in April, one in December).
- My other grandmother reached 100 years old, pity we couldn't be there.
- Bought a house (in Christchurch). It's got four bedrooms, was built in the 1930s, and is in great shape for its age.
- New projects: pydkim, Sunrise and Sunset, Sudoku solver
- Works in progress: psil, shaback, Wikipedia blame
Eble interesus vin la matematika libro "The Hidden Logic of Sudoku" http://www-lor.int-evry.fr/~berthier/HLS/index.html
...ni efektive ekkonis la aŭtoron Denis Berthier en Barato dum nia vojaĝo tie! Afabla ulo, kaj li faris multan esploradon pri la matematiko kaj aŭtomata solvado de Sudoku-enigmoj.
...ni efektive ekkonis la aŭtoron Denis Berthier en Barato dum nia vojaĝo tie! Afabla ulo, kaj li faris multan esploradon pri la matematiko kaj aŭtomata solvado de Sudoku-enigmoj.
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bryant
2009-01-06T17:12:17Z
Hiya! You don't know me, but I wrote a short guide to using ljdump for non-technical Mac users on my LJ, here. I'm getting some error reports which I'm not sure how to handle, because I'm not a Python hacker (I know, it's shameful, I mostly speak perl). I do not expect you to want to do ljdump support for non-technical users, but if any of the reports there are useful as bug reports for you, there's that.
Thanks for an awesome tool.
Thanks for an awesome tool.
ghewgill
2009-01-06T18:13:58Z
Cool, thanks!
I created anljdump
community a while back but never did anything with it. I'd be happy to see user support things there, I just updated my ljdump web page to point people there.
I also put ljdump on github for easy collaboration.
I created an
ljdump
community a while back but never did anything with it. I'd be happy to see user support things there, I just updated my ljdump web page to point people there.
I also put ljdump on github for easy collaboration.
alcarilinque
2009-01-15T17:34:59Z
Good to hear some excitement about Git from another pythonist. I'm unaware of how mercurial does with SVN, but I know Mozilla at least converted their whole repo into mercurial at one point; which they chose over Git for various reasons. On the other hand, I think their conversion probably included some sort of manual-work insanity.
I will take your recommendation though and give Git a shot soon. :)
I will take your recommendation though and give Git a shot soon. :)
ghewgill
2009-01-15T18:22:33Z
I had been using Mercurial for several weeks before looking at Git, mostly because it was the "natural" choice for a Python aficionado. When it came time to integrate with Subversion though, Git was a better fit. I spent the time to really learn it, and it has definitely been worth it. The article Repository Formats Matter was a big influence on me (some bits of that article are out of date compared to recent Git versions, but the fundamentals are still true).
2009-01-05T12:54:05Z