By Marc, on March 22nd, 2010
I’ve gone to the SD West conference a few times in the past and enjoyed a lot of the talks which are typically in a wide variety of areas of software development. While cleaning up my blog, I noticed that http://sdexpo.com/ now redirects to http://www.cloudconnectevent.com/.
That sucks, because I generally find “cloud computing” to be over-hyped and not all that interesting.
What happened to the old SD West? Where there were talks about Hadoop, but also about Java, C++, Python, Ruby, Design Patterns, etc…?
By Marc, on March 17th, 2010
I have been messing around with Tornado (a fairly new Python web server/web framework that came from FriendFeed) for a while. One thing that was missing was support for named groups in url pattern regexes. I submitted a patch and after a little bit of discussion, the feature has been committed.
By Marc, on March 14th, 2010
hasn’t been bad at all. Zach has spent a lot of the car time sleeping and even when he’s not sleeping, he’s been pretty cheerful (probably because he’s so well-rested?)
By Marc, on February 18th, 2010
If you were expecting this to be about abstract base classes, then you are bound to be disappointed. Unless perhaps you have an infant at home.
We have discovered that we can often calm Zach when he’s in a cranky mood by singing the alphabet song. It almost always stops him in his tracks and gets his attention and sometimes gets a big smile. Sometimes we can do this when he’s being cranky and refusing food or the bottle and he will instantly change his tune and start eating or drinking.
I find this quite amazing.
It’s likely that it works with any song (not just the alphabet song) and we have had some success with a couple of other tunes, but I think the alphabet song works best.
If you have a cranky kid, give it a try.
By Marc, on February 10th, 2010
As many of you have undoubtedly noticed, I haven’t posted in 6 months. And my last post was about the impending birth of our first child.
Well, Zach was born a healthy baby boy at 8 pounds and 14 ounces and the last few months have certainly been an adventure. You can see pictures of a small part of that adventure at http://gallery.zachabramowitz.com/.
It’s obviously a big change and of course, he is the center of much of our attention now. When I get home from a day of pressing keys, it’s nice to spend time with my son, rather than banging on more keys. I have actually, in the past few months, spewed random thoughts into the digital ether, but it has been in the one-liner style of tweets and Facebook status updates. Compared to blogging, these are quick, which is great when you don’t want to spend a bigger chunk of time, but they are of course more shallow and tend to have a different audience. And some things like technical info of real substance, don’t lend themselves at all to those mediums.
Lately, I’ve felt a vague feeling that I’d like to blog. It could be because of the need for expression, the need for catharsis, the need to feel part of a community, yada, yada… Or it could simply be that I miss having a place where I can jot down random little bits of technical info that I don’t want to forget and have other people benefit and/or comment with their own refinements. Or maybe it’s vanity. Or maybe it’s a little bit of all these things.
In any case, here we go…
By Marc, on August 4th, 2009
Today is 41 weeks and a day and our baby hasn’t come on his own, so today my wife is being induced. We’re at the hospital and my wife is receiving pitocin via an IV and now we’re just waiting…
By Marc, on July 1st, 2009
#!/usr/bin/env python
from datetime import date, timedelta
conception_date = date(year=2008, month=11, day=2)
today = date.today()
babys_age = today - conception_date
print "Baby's age"
print " from conception"
print " in days: %d" % babys_age.days
print " in weeks: %.2f" % round(babys_age.days / 7.0, 2)
babys_age += timedelta(14)
print " from LMP"
print " in days: %d" % babys_age.days
print " in weeks: %.2f" % round(babys_age.days / 7.0, 2)
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