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Van Lindberg is a software engineer and practicing attorney. What he does most, though, is translate ? from ?lawyer? to ?engineer? and back. He likes working with both computer code and legal code to get things done. Van?s current work touches both traditional intellectual property and the emerging field of open source…

Rick Copeland is a senior software engineer with retail analytics firm Predictix, LLC, where he uses SQLAlchemy extensively, primarily for web application development. He has been using Python full-time for development since 2005, in projects as diverse as demand forecasting, business web applications, compilers, and hardware synthesis.

Noah Gift is currently the author of several open source projects including a Django web application called Diskbot, a rendering tool, and an automated software installation tool called osxsmartdeploy. He is currently collaborating on a TurboGears project called feestje, which aims to be the WordPress of group planning software.

Liza Daly is a software engineer who specializes in applications for the publishing industry. Currently Liza is an independent consultant and the founder of threepress, a platform to produce open source publishing tools. She has been programming interactive fiction since she was nine but no longer recommends Commodore 64 BASIC or the…

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Four short links: 16 Feb 2009

A lot of Python and databases today, with some hardware and Twitter pranking/security worries to taste: Free Telephony Project, Open Telephony Hardware -- professionally-designed mass-manufactured hardware for telephony projects. E.g., IP04 runs Asterisk and has four phone jacks and removable Flash storage. Software, schematics, and PCB files released under GPL v2 or later. Don't Click Prank Explained -- inside the...

PyMOTW: grp

The grp module can be used to read information about Unix groups from the group database (usually /etc/group).

Why I Started Coding Again (Thanks, Guido!)

This is a follow up article to a piece I wrote in 2007, "Why I Stopped Coding and Why I'd Start Again". I took a several year hiatus from writing code, mostly because I found that I was spending more...

Bookworm and O'Reilly Labs

I'm extremely pleased to announce that the Bookworm project is now part of O'Reilly Labs.

PyMOTW: pwd

The pwd module can be used to read user information from the Unix password database (usually /etc/passwd).

A RESTful wrapper for MoinMoin

I've always loved the MoinMoin wiki, and lately I've been using it for more and more, at work and at home. I've pined for a REST wrapper for a while, and I finally bit the bullet and wrote one, as part of the open-source Akara project, which among other things provides RESTful access to the XML processing capabilities of Amara 2.x.

Writing Technical Documentation with Sphinx, Paver, and Cog

An open source tool chain for producing technical articles.

Concept Management

Distributed version control systems have brought up some pretty important questions. A DVCS adds a good deal of complexity to an already complicated system. Source control is rather sticky business as it not only deals with complex content, but the...

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