I primed the pump on the flight to PyCon by catching up on my reading. “Expert Python Programming” (Tarek Ziade) reminded me that I wanted to play with ipython shell and virtualenv (just learned today about the handy extension “virtualenvwrapper”), and reinforced and offered many great Best Practices.
Optimization Tutorial
I then got on my geek at [...]
12. Feb 2009 
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Congratulations to Jon Ramer from The Interra Project, and Mark Okazaki from Neighborhood House for winning this year’s Bill Grace Leadership Legacy Award awards from the Center for Ethical Leadership.
Both the Interra Project and Center for Ethical Leadership are clients (and friends) of ours at Web Collective and we’re impressed with the great work they [...]
01. Feb 2009 0 comments
I enjoyed hanging with the local Python crowd yesterday in Seattle for Northwest Python Day 2009.
As usual, Python is popular in many realms.
Who attended?
We started with quick introductions - a nice mix of folks with some traveling from Portland OR, Vancouver BC and even one from Chicago and DC. Many folks using Python — several [...]
09. Jan 2009 1 comment
Santa brought me an Arduino this year - an open-hardware and open-software platform for connecting computers to the physical world — used by artists, designers, geeks, entrepreneurs who often find interesting things to create.
Now I’m finding renewal in a mix of art, physical computing, and the new concepts and ideas that come along with that.
What [...]
08. Jan 2009 5 comments
As I gleam more information through blogs and microblogs there comes a time when the fun wears off and overload sets in.
In 2009, I’ve decided to tame overload and reinstate fun with some simple rules:
For Twitter (and other microblogging services):
Follow only folks that have a reasonable number of posts per day. Chronic Twitters (some individuals, [...]
25. Oct 2008 0 comments
If you’re using Gmail, and want to manage it using GTD, I found a great solution.
I’m now using Remember the Milk as my primary GTD tool with the Firefox extension for Gmail. The extension lets you see all your action items on the right side of the Gmail page (grouped by day) and lets you [...]
18. Oct 2008 1 comment
A recurring conference theme for me centered around agility. Plone has benefited by moving from Zope2 to the more flexible Zope3 Component Architecture. Zope technologies are being made available as middleware for use on other platforms (via Repoze and WSGI). Grok is a Zope3 framework for projects needing something more lightweight. There were several very [...]
20. Sep 2008 1 comment
Scale and Performance - Being Awesome
After Web Collective just finished a Django website that needed to scale to 12,000 simultaneous peak users, Flickr architect Cal Henderson’s keynote was timely and very entertaining - particularly his commentary on “serious” frameworks and essentially a comic roasting of all of the major ones.
Since most of us are building [...]
19. Aug 2008 0 comments
This is a Plone product that implements an Open Source version of the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology.
New in this release:
This version fixes all known unicode issues, so that non-ascii characters can now be used throughout interface for editing, viewing, and KSS inline editing.
For download, please visit http://plone.org/products/collectivegtd-thoughts/releases/1.0b2
Change log:
NEW: Fixed all known unicode issues which [...]
16. Aug 2008 0 comments
Cooperative Businesses are relatively new in the consulting and services field, as compared with more well known producer coops.
We’ve spent the last two years forming and running a Cooperative Business, and hope others consider doing the same.
The combination of organizing as a Cooperative, being part of Plone and other Open Source software communities, and partnering [...]
