FOSDEM is over, and all I can say right now is that I bought way too many tee-shirts (awesome :D and still not enough!). Got most of them in girl size which is great, albeit some of the sizings were a bit messed up (I had to buy a FSF …

Hm... Starting to get the feeling this is the catch-all exception for Django, considering the wide range of scenarios in which people slam themselves against this error. (Although it's more frequent when using psycopg2, I hear.)

InternalError: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block

This time …

Today I started looking around for more research on schools using or migrating to open-source solutions and I'm finding quite an overwhelming amount of case studies (it's great! but difficult to review and digest) at all sorts of level (country-wide policies, city-wide, single school, county , district, area, state...)

Trying to …

This article is about a year old, but it doesn't matter: Diaries of a Core Maintainer #6:) A tale of two developers.

Re-reading that story is always a bit scary and cause for self-reflection because my approach is so similar to Pat's, particularly when starting out with a new idea …

In the midst of reports on what happened at Linux.conf.au I saw this link:

NZ school ditches Microsoft and goes totally open source

The story itself is interesting but the background it provides on the deals between the government and Microsoft for education is particularly eye-opening. I was …