Category: python

  • Training in Tanzania

    On the last Monday of April, I found myself nervously standing in a room of about 15 people from the e-Government Agency and National Bureau of Statistics in Dar es Salaam. They were waiting for me to start training them in Python and CKAN. I’ve been programming in Python since 2011, but I’ve never actually…

  • Migration Update – 1

    About 2 weeks ago, I kicked off my “evil” plan to move as many things as possible off Google Apps. I’ve managed to move my Contacts, Calendar, and files off Google services so far. I setup ownCloud for contacts, calendar, and files. It was incredibly painless to setup. I have the owncloud, CalDAV-sync, and CardDAV-Sync…

  • Git Tips You Probably Didn’t Know

    I’ve been using `git` for quite a while now and some of it’s features continue to amaze me. Here’s a few things I learned recently.

  • Better Problem Definition

    I’m a core developer on [CKAN][1] at Open Knowledge, the most widely used data catalog software. Early this year, we released version 2.2 of CKAN with a complete overhaul…

  • Pycon India 2013

    Finally, I made it to a Pycon India! The last 2 years, I’ve been pulling a sankarshan. I walked in just in time for Kenneth Reitz’ keynote. Kenneth talked about…