I'm very glad I was able to attend Python Ireland's March talks meet-up last night, it's the first time (at last!) that I got to hear the Python chaps presenting, some very interesting stuff. Apparently they're doing a "return to the sources" with more introductory talks, after some time of …

I went through my 2nd Python teaching session today, with the same students than last time. Some improvements and still, so-so-so many things to improve. Teaching is something I really want to get better at so I'm really motivated to debug my process.

Having prepared more exercises to hand out …

Armed with my laptop and some notes, which I had spent the previous evening annotating then annotating the annotations, I stepped into the room where I was to teach my 7 (actually 6) students the basics of programming and Python.

The short version is, I think it went well. There …

On Wednesday, I will be teaching a small group of teenagers how to program, using Python. I'm both extremely enthusiastic about this, and scared out of my mind. As the day actually approaches, my mood tends to oscillate toward the latter more often :)

I have prepared some material... I think …

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 …