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I just got back from PyCon, and as with all conferences where the talks are delivered by engineers instead of professional speakers, we had a mixed bag. Some talks were great; others made me get my laptop out.
The most important important axiom is: a talk is not just an essay without random access. It's a different medium. Respect its strengths instead of wishing it were something it's not....

In the last three years my primary machines have run OS X, Linux, Windows, OS X, and now Windows again, in that order. The observant reader may note, "That's a lot of machines in three years." It is, but I also changed jobs twice in that time frame,...

A friend asks,
If [I see a] job I could do, even though I don't meet the stated requirements, should I apply anyway?
Short answer: yes.

In 2010, Apache Cassandra increased its momentum as the leading scalable database. Here is a summary of the notable activity in three areas: code, community and controversy. As always, comments are welcome.
Code
2010 started with the release of Cassandra 0.5, followed by 0.6 and graduation from the ASF incubator a few months later. Seven more stable releases of 0.6 proceeded, adding many features to improve operations in response to feedback from production...