Tomorrow I fly to Italy to make my way over to EuroPython 2011 in Florence. I am tremendously looking forward to it! With 5 days of talks and 2 days of sprints (though probably only one for me) this will be the longest conference I've ever attended, we'll see how …

Here's how I got Hibernate working on my Thinkpad X201, currently running Debian Squeeze.

First, make sure you have a swap partition at least as large as your RAM. Following that little incident last year, my swap had a different UUID and I never realised it was never mounted. Manually …

Over the week-end, I thought it was time to see how my Moodle block handled the upgrade to 2.0. I did a brand new install of Moodle 1.9-latest, restored my old SQL dev backup, anxiously proceeded to start the upgrade and... ta-dah! Short answer: it doesn't work. Here …

On July 2nd, I will be facilitating a workshop on Squishy circuits, kindly hosted by Tog and taught by Tríona O’Connell.

Squishy circuits are a great way to demonstrate electrical circuits to kids (and adults!). It consists of a conductive dough and an insulating dough that are used in …

Another interesting PyCon talk to watch was Best practices for impossible deadlines. One of the tools mentioned in the talk is Bees with machine guns, a load testing tool that uses the power of EC2 and with a name like that I was gleeful thinking about the day when I …