Off to Europe!
Saturday, April 20, 2013 (permalink)
I feel like I'm dreaming, but we're on our way to Europe!
A few weeks Audrey and I decided to move. While looking at possible rentals or even mortgages, we were idly (dreaming really... still paying off debts incurred from last year) looking at how much a room ...
Read more ...New Year's Resolutions for 2013
Monday, December 31, 2012 (permalink)
I'm one of those people who not only likes to make New Year's Resolutions, I like to blog about them.
Resolution
- Go to at least one technical conference in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.
- Visit at least one new nation. It's hard to ...
2012 resolution summary
Sunday, December 30, 2012 (permalink)
Resolutions completed
Go to a Python related conference in North America, Europe, and Asia. Conferences I attended:
- PyCon US
- DjangoCon Europe
- PyCon Philippines
- PyCon Poland
See a place in the USA I've never been. A couple places I saw:
Drop to a 32 waist
Visit ...
Result of our LA Migration Hackathon submission
Sunday, December 09, 2012 (permalink)
Possible Causes of for Internal Migration of Undocumented People
Our concept was to measure the effect of changing immigrant laws per state compared to income differences between regions. We present the following, which will be on it's own hosted site shortly:
Median Income over 5 years between States
Note ...
Thoughts on ranting
Monday, November 26, 2012 (permalink)
I'll admit it, I love a good rant. I respect those who can give rants well. I would list the ones I really like, but I'm not sure I want to deal with the arguments that would follow. ;-)
Of course, as much as I like to read or ...
Read more ...Curiosity has landed!
Monday, August 06, 2012 (permalink)
I'm terribly proud of what was accomplished last night: A car-sized robot weighing a whopping 8,580 pounds (3,893 kg) was landed on Mars. It is packed with scientific packages that will expand our knowledge of Mars, and has the power to use them for at least 14 ...
Read more ...Choosing a new python based blog engine
Thursday, April 05, 2012 (permalink)
Why a new blog engine?
On my old blog, I had been having issues with Blogger for some time. The WYSIWYG text editor was annoying in that it produced wonky HTML, so I had to hand craft the posts. Which meant I often wrote the HTML formatted copy in a ...
My new blog
Friday, February 17, 2012 (permalink)
What I did to get it running:
pip install pelican git clone git://github.com/pydanny/pydanny.github.com.git
My settings.py file:
AUTHOR = 'Daniel Greenfeld'
DISQUS_SITENAME = 'pydanny'
GITHUB_URL = 'https://github.com/pydanny'
GOOGLE_ANALYTICS='UA-18066389-2'
SITEURL = 'http://pydanny.github.com'
SITENAME = 'pydanny'
SOCIAL = (('twitter', 'http://twitter.com/pydanny'),
('github ...
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Tried out Jekyll
Thursday, February 09, 2012 (permalink)
Why Jekyll?
I've had issues with Blogger for some time. After my fiancee, Audrey Roy, moved her blog to https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll, I was impressed enough to give it a try.
Why did it impress me?
Code highlighting made easy
I don't have to hand-craft HTML ...
