An ode to my OS X development workstation setup [1] I am big on setting up my development environment, and enjoying the environment I work in. And I’m very thankful to the folks who make my life easier, including the authors of: Python: Python Core Developers dotfiles: Jon Bernard checkoutmanager: Reinout Van Rees I also […]
Category: SQL
Connecting to a Microsoft SQL Server database from Python under Ubuntu
Free tools are great, but the world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. Sometimes, we may need to connect to a Microsoft SQL Server database from one of our Python applications running under Linux. Fortunately, there are ways to achieve this. I am assuming we got this: A Microsoft SQL Server installation running under Windows. I […]
The GPL vs. The MIT License: Which License To Use
A great many developers, myself included, believe that it is important to spend at least some time contributing to open-source software projects. These projects will hopefully be licensed (if you haven’t got a license on your open-source project, you’re doing it wrong), to ensure that your contributions are used in the way you (or the […]
April 1st Post Mortem
This year I decided to finally do what I planned for quite some time: an April’s fool joke. (I did contribute a bit to PEP 3117, but that does not count). This year I decided to make a little joke about Python microframeworks (micro-web-frameworks?) and wrote a little thing, and created a website and screencast […]