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A How-To on Setting Back Diversity, or, “we hired women to bring you beer”

What a horrible month it has been for diversity in technology. March started off with an awful article on “Brogrammers”, and today the Boston API Jam, hosted by Sqoot of New York, took their turn at ruining things. If you thought the “brogrammer” article and everyone involved with it was beyond stupid, check out what [...]

FileSystemWatcher on Python 2

Alright, alright, you guys win. Enough people emailed me to say they would use a 2.x version of watcher from my previous post, so here it is: version 0.2 now supports Python 2. The changes are pretty simple. The “biggest” part of this happened in changeset 96f3f9e4511c, where I handle a few 2 and 3 [...]

The five year project: .NET FileSystemWatcher clone for Python

In the time I’ve been using Python, no project has started and stopped, and started and stopped again, more than my goal of writing a file system monitor. Sure, it’s a small and simple project in the grand scheme of things that could be accomplished over that time, but I like to finish what I [...]

Why you should go to PyCon

PyCon 2011 in Atlanta, Georgia, like pretty much all things Python, is awesome. If you’ve gone before, you already knew this, and hopefully you’re joining us again this year. If you haven’t gone before, you’re about to find out why you should go. Tutorials Starting Wednesday March 9th, the PyCon festivities kick off with two [...]