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A lot of user questions for the Google Code project are along the lines of "how do I hide code until it's ready", "how can I wipe the history and start from scratch" and so on: they are about people's insecurities.
When you have elitism …
read moreI've been having a great time perusing through the PyCon 2011 video archives and watching some of the talks. Turns out most of them are 30 minutes long, which is a lovely amount of time -- a bus journey, a late afternoon break, etc, and exactly the length of my attention …
read moreEek! Looking through my old drafts I can't believe I forgot to post this. I was waiting for the LWN link to become available to all -- but I guess it's never too late to share the awesome.
Article: GUADEC: Banshee project reaches out for contributors (LWN)
This is the summary …
read moreI just got home back from Berlin, where I participated in my first HackFest.
I was about 6 hours late for the first day, mostly due to weather related delays at Dublin Airport. I would have been a little late anyway (not enough days off left …
It's proven difficult to write up a summary of my experience as someone-who's-not-a-hardcore-open-source-contributor-yet-but-certainly-plans-on-becoming-one. There's an easy dialogue-killing answer to any anecdote I relate: "suck it up." I'm still trying to find a way to express all this though, because I'm sure there's something to learn from any newcomer's attempt to …
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