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BarCamp Transparency and Oxford Code Jam

jp.stacey 8 April 2009
This town is geek enough for all of us.

Almost certainly no progress on those copious and comprehensive notes about BarCamp Oxford this side of Easter.

Playing with Django: a fretless experience

jp.stacey 25 August 2008
I've been trying for twenty minutes to shoehorn a joke about Grappelling into this excerpt.

Django continues to gather momentum towards its imminent 1.0 release. The 1.0 beta 1 is out; the developer documentation has been refactored; it already places nicely with Python's powerful debugging and logging tools; indeed, all is proceeding according to the roadmap, more or less.

I'm with Ignorant →

jp.stacey 8 August 2008
Never ask someone how stupid they are; conversely, don't be surprised if they buy books explicitly meant for dummies.

David at 37signals writes:

Self-deprecation is fine, just realize that there’s a dear line between embracing your own ignorance and ensuring a prophesy of certainty.

David's career path sounds similar to mine: although I played with Linux as an undergraduate, I didn't start programming until my PhD, and only really developed my XSLT, Perl and scripting skills prior to coming to Torchbox; since arriving here over three and a half years ago I've learnt "everything else

Orl korrect at OKCon

jp.stacey 16 March 2008
Openness is about more than availability: it's about offering something the way you'd offfer a guest your tray of Ferrero Rocher.

Yesterday’s OKCon 2008 was great fun, if a long day! I’m still digesting the food for thought that the conference provided—many, small courses; over a dozen if you include the more open sessions after the keynotes, and each followed by a sorbet of questions and debate—so I don’t have a great deal to say about what I heard yet.