PyCon 2011 Atlanta

Posted on March 31st, 2011 webmaster No comments          Print

We attended the PyCon 2011 in Atlanta, GA early this month, which is the longest conference I’ve ever attended (March 9-17, 9 days total) but it was so worth it!  We’re mainly a Java shop and we’re fairly new to Python so PyCon really showed us what we can do with Python and all these tools available for it that could really help us with our development.  After the conference we’re pretty much convinced that Python is the way to go (unfortunately, it will take a lot of convincing to have all our apps converted to Python in our environment ).

The conference was broken up into 3 parts: first 2 days are tutorial days, followed by 3 days for the main conference, then 4 days of development sprints (our favorite).

For the tutorial days, we took the Python 101 tutorial (we probably should have taken the intermediate one but we still learned quite a bit in the 101 class) and the Python/Django deployment workshop as we’re really interested in Django.  Jacob Kaplan-Moss, one of the core developers of Django, taught the Django deployment class.  He went pretty fast since there were a lot to cover but it was pretty neat to see all these tools you can use for your development and deployment and the best ways to use them.  Such tools include virtualenv, pip, nginx, Fabric, Chef, and gunicorn.

For the main conference, we pretty much focused on Django so most of the talks we attended were related to Django.  There were a bunch of other interesting topics we attended as well, such as network programming, GPU computing with PyCUDA, and continuous deployment.  The keynote presentation by Hilary Mason at http://bit.ly was very good as well.

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Rename multiple files with Metamorphose

Posted on November 28th, 2010 webmaster 1 comment          Print

I’ve taken a lot of pictures lately and I sometimes mistakenly just copied the contents of the memory card directly to my hard drive instead of using the “Import Pictures…” option where you can specify the name of the files and they will be numbered for you automatically.

In Windows, you can select multiple files and right-click and rename the first file and the rest of the files will be named the same way with “(1)…(n)” numbers at the end to differentiate them.

Multiple files renamed in Windows

Some people, like myself, might not like this numbering, because they won’t sort by name properly in other systems.  In my case, I wanted the numbers to be “001…n” and Metamorphose lets me do just that easily.

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Untangle 6.1 Beta Now Available

Posted on February 15th, 2009 webmaster No comments          Print

The biggest change in 6.1 is it’s now based on Debian Lenny (kernel 2.6.26).  Here’s the full changelog.  You can download the beta here.