https://yergler.net/Recent content on Nathan R. YerglerHugo -- gohugo.ioenSun, 29 Dec 2024 14:36:17 +0000https://yergler.net/2024/12/29/why-i-stoppped-blogging/Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:36:17 +0000https://yergler.net/2024/12/29/why-i-stoppped-blogging/I’ve had this article open in my browser since it showed up on lobste.https://yergler.net/weeknotes/2021/52/Mon, 27 Dec 2021 09:24:45 -0800https://yergler.net/weeknotes/2021/52/This week was a little rocky, which I attribute to a combination of a “holiday hangover” – time spent celebrating rather than recharging – along with most of the team being off.https://yergler.net/2020/12/14/the-origin-of-the-parable/Mon, 14 Dec 2020 04:36:17 +0000https://yergler.net/2020/12/14/the-origin-of-the-parable/Regardless of the form of the parable, the moral has certainly been true with my own work, especially writing and blogging.https://yergler.net/2020/12/01/bridging-wireless-ethernet-networks-with-a-raspberry-pi/Tue, 01 Dec 2020 04:10:25 +0000https://yergler.net/2020/12/01/bridging-wireless-ethernet-networks-with-a-raspberry-pi/We recently acquired a second hand Dell laser printer, which was timely: our inkjet printer is a little long in the tooth, and is starting to require more frequent head cleaning and nozzle alignment, both of which use that liquid gold we call “ink”.https://yergler.net/2020/06/27/art-is-work/Sat, 27 Jun 2020 15:21:25 +0000https://yergler.net/2020/06/27/art-is-work/ “Milton Glaser’s Studio”, CC BY-NC-SA, Jeffrey Zeldmanhttps://yergler.net/2020/06/26/customize-babel-configuration-with-macros/Fri, 26 Jun 2020 15:56:37 +0000https://yergler.net/2020/06/26/customize-babel-configuration-with-macros/I have a co-dependent relationship with Create React App.https://yergler.net/2020/06/25/the-habit/Thu, 25 Jun 2020 16:27:54 +0000https://yergler.net/2020/06/25/the-habit/A mentor, Naomi, once told me “it’s more fun to write programs that help you write programs than it is to write programs”.https://yergler.net/2019/11/11/using-ecr-images-with-elastic-beanstalk-and-codebuild/Mon, 11 Nov 2019 17:11:11 +0000https://yergler.net/2019/11/11/using-ecr-images-with-elastic-beanstalk-and-codebuild/As I mentioned previously, I’ve been using CodePipeline and CodeBuild for continuous integration and delivery on a new project.https://yergler.net/2019/10/17/continuous-integration-with-codebuild-and-codepipeline/Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:08:36 +0000https://yergler.net/2019/10/17/continuous-integration-with-codebuild-and-codepipeline/Last week I started on a new project — venture, perhaps — which means I’m in the thick of figuring out all the things you take for granted when you join an established project.https://yergler.net/2018/10/01/guys-i-made-shorts/Mon, 01 Oct 2018 04:20:19 +0000https://yergler.net/2018/10/01/guys-i-made-shorts/I’ve been sewing for about a year now, and I’ve made a handful of button down shirts, some gym shorts, baby clothes for my niece, and a peacoat for my guy.https://yergler.net/2018/09/24/sep-24-2018-at-841-am/Mon, 24 Sep 2018 15:41:51 +0000https://yergler.net/2018/09/24/sep-24-2018-at-841-am/Unecessarily upgraded to the Xs over the weekend.https://yergler.net/2018/09/05/old-in-art-school/Wed, 05 Sep 2018 03:43:39 +0000https://yergler.net/2018/09/05/old-in-art-school/I finished reading “Old in Art School”, by Nell Painter, this afternoon on my commute home.https://yergler.net/2018/07/05/nostalgia/Thu, 05 Jul 2018 01:44:57 +0000https://yergler.net/2018/07/05/nostalgia/I read that 2018 was the final year of Open Source Bridge.https://yergler.net/2018/01/13/sewing-up-2017/Sat, 13 Jan 2018 19:10:22 +0000https://yergler.net/2018/01/13/sewing-up-2017/Before being felled by the flu shortly after Christmas, I had intended to write this at the end of December.https://yergler.net/2017/11/05/remarkable-e-ink-tablet/Sun, 05 Nov 2017 20:03:03 +0000https://yergler.net/2017/11/05/remarkable-e-ink-tablet/I’ve long fantasized about an e-Ink tablet: something I could use for writing, sketching, and reading.https://yergler.net/2017/09/11/on-product-engineering/Mon, 11 Sep 2017 16:28:05 +0000https://yergler.net/2017/09/11/on-product-engineering/I’ve been writing software and working in teams for well over a decade now.https://yergler.net/2017/09/04/stumbling-towards-a-drawing-practice/Mon, 04 Sep 2017 19:33:56 +0000https://yergler.net/2017/09/04/stumbling-towards-a-drawing-practice/I’ve been aware for some time that improving my drawing skills would probably have a big impact on all parts of my artistic practice.https://yergler.net/2017/08/18/how-to-make-fun-of-nazis/Fri, 18 Aug 2017 16:28:30 +0000https://yergler.net/2017/08/18/how-to-make-fun-of-nazis/In 2012, a “white power” march in Charlotte, N.https://yergler.net/2017/08/16/reduction-printing-explained-visually/Wed, 16 Aug 2017 19:24:49 +0000https://yergler.net/2017/08/16/reduction-printing-explained-visually/I’ve been experimenting with taking notes and explaining things to myself visually using Paper.https://yergler.net/2017/08/15/give-it-five-minutes/Tue, 15 Aug 2017 22:03:39 +0000https://yergler.net/2017/08/15/give-it-five-minutes/“Learning to think first rather than react quick is a life long pursuit.https://yergler.net/2017/08/15/a-return-to-status-blogging/Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:56:53 +0000https://yergler.net/2017/08/15/a-return-to-status-blogging/Facebook does that thing where it reminds you of what you posted on a given day.https://yergler.net/2017/08/10/building-webextensions-in-typescript/Thu, 10 Aug 2017 02:27:14 +0000https://yergler.net/2017/08/10/building-webextensions-in-typescript/I spent yesterday evening doing something I haven’t done in a while: tinkering.https://yergler.net/2017/08/09/lets-talk-about-pickle-rick/Wed, 09 Aug 2017 21:16:28 +0000https://yergler.net/2017/08/09/lets-talk-about-pickle-rick/Yes, we no doubt live in a world where a lack of intelligence and a lack of awareness (self or otherwise) fail us at every turn.https://yergler.net/prints/2017/untitled-lincoln/Mon, 31 Jul 2017 18:45:17 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2017/untitled-lincoln/https://yergler.net/2017/07/31/color-woodcut-printmaking-day-4-5/Mon, 31 Jul 2017 15:49:19 +0000https://yergler.net/2017/07/31/color-woodcut-printmaking-day-4-5/The last two days of the workshop were work days.https://yergler.net/2017/07/29/color-woodcut-printmaking-day-3/Sat, 29 Jul 2017 01:16:07 +0000https://yergler.net/2017/07/29/color-woodcut-printmaking-day-3/Today I finished my first reduction woodcut.https://yergler.net/2017/07/27/color-woodcut-printmaking-day-2/Thu, 27 Jul 2017 23:28:06 +0000https://yergler.net/2017/07/27/color-woodcut-printmaking-day-2/I’m blogging about my experience taking Karen Kunc’s “Color Woodcut Printmaking” class at Constellation Studios.https://yergler.net/2017/07/27/color-woodcut-printmaking-day-1/Thu, 27 Jul 2017 01:50:34 +0000https://yergler.net/2017/07/27/color-woodcut-printmaking-day-1/A friend suggested I take notes and write them up after each day of class to make sure things stick.https://yergler.net/2017/07/24/torino/Mon, 24 Jul 2017 04:42:33 +0000https://yergler.net/2017/07/24/torino/I printed my last practice print yesterday before heading to Lincoln.https://yergler.net/prints/2017/torino/Sat, 22 Jul 2017 19:23:59 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2017/torino/I traveled to Torino in 2007 and 2009 for work.https://yergler.net/2017/07/16/red-rocks-iii/Sun, 16 Jul 2017 23:32:22 +0000https://yergler.net/2017/07/16/red-rocks-iii/Spent the afternoon in the studio yesterday, carving and printing my third Red Rocks print.https://yergler.net/2017/07/06/exactly-once-delivery/Thu, 06 Jul 2017 04:03:44 +0000https://yergler.net/2017/07/06/exactly-once-delivery/At Remind I helped build the announcement and chat message delivery platform.https://yergler.net/2017/07/04/the-busy-trap/Tue, 04 Jul 2017 04:04:59 +0000https://yergler.net/2017/07/04/the-busy-trap/Tim Kreider writes:https://yergler.net/2017/07/01/tower/Sat, 01 Jul 2017 01:46:19 +0000https://yergler.net/2017/07/01/tower/I was in the studio last week, printing a new piece, the Tower Theater.https://yergler.net/prints/2017/untitled-rooted/Sat, 24 Jun 2017 06:37:45 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2017/untitled-rooted/https://yergler.net/prints/2017/tower/Sat, 17 Jun 2017 22:00:00 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2017/tower/https://yergler.net/2017/06/17/back-at-it-2/Sat, 17 Jun 2017 14:55:50 +0000https://yergler.net/2017/06/17/back-at-it-2/https://yergler.net/2017/04/30/technical-documentation-with-tut/Sun, 30 Apr 2017 17:12:38 +0000https://yergler.net/2017/04/30/technical-documentation-with-tut/Long running branches are a personal pet peeve of mine: I’d much rather put the effort into managing feature flags, etc than I would into merging a branch that’s diverged significantly.https://yergler.net/2017/03/21/2403/Tue, 21 Mar 2017 21:24:13 +0000https://yergler.net/2017/03/21/2403/Working on an update for Effective Django, I spent a little time looking at Pollen and Racket this week trying to understand how it’s different/better than Sphinx.https://yergler.net/2017/03/20/no-pressure-blogging/Mon, 20 Mar 2017 04:45:50 +0000https://yergler.net/2017/03/20/no-pressure-blogging/If I had something in the works that I felt I could label an “essay”, I think I’d feel pressure.https://yergler.net/prints/2016/russian-river/Tue, 15 Nov 2016 19:45:17 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2016/russian-river/https://yergler.net/about/Fri, 08 Jul 2016 09:20:52 +0000https://yergler.net/about/Hi, my name is Nathan, and I’m a writer and printmaker .https://yergler.net/prints/2015/sloterdijk-station-2015/Sun, 25 Jan 2015 03:40:59 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2015/sloterdijk-station-2015/https://yergler.net/prints/2015/reigning/Sun, 25 Jan 2015 03:24:10 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2015/reigning/https://yergler.net/prints/2015/willow-rosie/Sun, 25 Jan 2015 03:19:05 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2015/willow-rosie/https://yergler.net/prints/2015/russian-orthodox/Sun, 25 Jan 2015 03:17:39 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2015/russian-orthodox/https://yergler.net/prints/2015/overpass/Sun, 25 Jan 2015 02:49:18 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2015/overpass/https://yergler.net/prints/2015/untitled-ii/Sun, 25 Jan 2015 02:33:49 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2015/untitled-ii/https://yergler.net/prints/2015/untitled/Sun, 25 Jan 2015 02:32:37 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2015/untitled/https://yergler.net/prints/2015/pacific-heights/Fri, 23 Jan 2015 05:59:06 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2015/pacific-heights/https://yergler.net/prints/2015/nixie/Fri, 23 Jan 2015 05:56:11 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2015/nixie/https://yergler.net/prints/2015/red-rocks-i-range/Fri, 23 Jan 2015 05:53:55 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2015/red-rocks-i-range/https://yergler.net/prints/2015/sffd/Fri, 23 Jan 2015 05:51:11 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2015/sffd/https://yergler.net/2014/02/19/docsix-doctests-python-3/Wed, 19 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2014/02/19/docsix-doctests-python-3/I was first introduced to doctests working on Zope 3 at early PyCon sprints.https://yergler.net/prints/2014/ship-it/Sat, 25 Jan 2014 02:45:53 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2014/ship-it/https://yergler.net/prints/2014/sutro-waxing/Sun, 05 Jan 2014 07:28:26 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2014/sutro-waxing/https://yergler.net/2013/09/03/nested-formsets-redux/Tue, 03 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2013/09/03/nested-formsets-redux/It’s been nearly four years since I first wrote about nested formsets .https://yergler.net/2013/08/17/destroyed-0003/Sat, 17 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2013/08/17/destroyed-0003/I'm blogging my way through Gary Bernhardt's excellent Destroy All Software series of screencasts.https://yergler.net/2013/08/09/hieroglpyh-0-6/Fri, 09 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2013/08/09/hieroglpyh-0-6/I just uploaded Hieroglyph 0.https://yergler.net/2013/07/30/destroyed-0002/Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2013/07/30/destroyed-0002/I'm blogging my way through Gary Bernhardt's excellent Destroy All Software series of screencasts.https://yergler.net/2013/07/29/destroyed-0001/Mon, 29 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2013/07/29/destroyed-0001/Some people blog their way through Knuth or SICP .https://yergler.net/2013/07/28/fast-pass/Sun, 28 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2013/07/28/fast-pass/Fast Pass: 3" x 5" two plate linocut print Last week when I was printing my line study, I had a couple extra hours in the studio.https://yergler.net/2013/07/28/emacs-jedi/Sun, 28 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2013/07/28/emacs-jedi/Brandon Rhodes delivered the keynote at PyOhio yesterday[1]3{#id1.https://yergler.net/2013/07/27/effdj-oscon-pm/Sat, 27 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2013/07/27/effdj-oscon-pm/I’ve been on the road a little more than a week now, back to back conferences.https://yergler.net/2013/07/25/coffee-cup/Thu, 25 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2013/07/25/coffee-cup/Untitled (coffee cup line study): 4" x 5" linocut print I wanted to practice using lines to describe, rather than outline, shapes and surfaces, so I took a picture of a coffee cup on a sunny day and decided to try and make a print from it.https://yergler.net/2013/07/08/candlestick-point/Mon, 08 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2013/07/08/candlestick-point/Candlestick Point: 8" x 10" linocut print, printed on Magnani Pescia A dear friend sent me a photograph she took from Candlestick Point shortly after I made a print of a canal in Amsterdam.https://yergler.net/2013/07/07/effective-django-oscon/Sun, 07 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2013/07/07/effective-django-oscon/I’m going to be presenting my introductory Django tutorial, Effective Django at OSCON later this month.https://yergler.net/2013/06/16/welcome-home/Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2013/06/16/welcome-home/Welcome Home: 5" x 7" two plate linocut print, printed on Rives BFK Richard and I just moved from South Beach back to the area I lived in when I first moved to San Francisco, and we first started dating.https://yergler.net/2013/03/19/hieroglyph_0_5_5/Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2013/03/19/hieroglyph_0_5_5/As I mentioned last month , there were a few improvements to Hieroglyph sitting in the master branch, awaiting a release.https://yergler.net/2013/03/17/tut/Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2013/03/17/tut/The PyCon sessions wound down today, so I’m finally coming up for air.https://yergler.net/2013/03/06/flymake_with_sphinx/Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2013/03/06/flymake_with_sphinx/Working on my PyCon tutorial (next week!https://yergler.net/2013/02/11/hieroglyph_improvements/Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2013/02/11/hieroglyph_improvements/If you’re using Hieroglyph for generating slides with Sphinx , you may want to use the version in git rather than the release.https://yergler.net/2013/02/09/untitled/Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2013/02/09/untitled/Untitled (Bay Bridge): 8" x 10" four plate linocut print, printed on Rives BFK Shortly after I finished “Golden Gate” last year I decided I needed to do a companion piece depicting the other bridge in San Francisco.https://yergler.net/2013/02/04/golden_gate/Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2013/02/04/golden_gate/Golden Gate: 8" x 10" linocut print with watercolor, printed on Rives BFK In the process of working on Golden Gate last year, I printed the black plate on its own a few times.https://yergler.net/2013/01/28/effective_django/Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2013/01/28/effective_django/PyCon (the US variation , at least), is about a month and half away, and once again I’m looking at the schedule of presentations and events and wondering how it is the community pulls it off every year.https://yergler.net/2013/01/27/new_work__days_getting_shorter/Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2013/01/27/new_work__days_getting_shorter/Days Getting Shorter: 8" x 10" Two Plate Linocut, printed on Rives BFK This was a fun piece to work on.https://yergler.net/2013/01/26/bytes_characters_codecs_strings/Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2013/01/26/bytes_characters_codecs_strings/One of the persistent areas of confusion for many Python developers is Unicode strings, byte strings, and how they interact.https://yergler.net/prints/2013/coffee-cup-study/Fri, 25 Jan 2013 02:42:55 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2013/coffee-cup-study/https://yergler.net/prints/2013/candlestick-point/Fri, 25 Jan 2013 02:35:12 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2013/candlestick-point/https://yergler.net/prints/2013/bay-bridge/Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:30:37 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2013/bay-bridge/https://yergler.net/prints/2013/sloterdijk-station/Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:25:44 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2013/sloterdijk-station/https://yergler.net/prints/2013/golden-gate/Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:23:48 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2013/golden-gate/https://yergler.net/prints/2013/sleeping-dog/Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:22:45 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2013/sleeping-dog/https://yergler.net/prints/2013/amsterdam/Wed, 23 Jan 2013 05:39:55 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2013/amsterdam/https://yergler.net/2013/01/07/hieroglyph_0_5/Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2013/01/07/hieroglyph_0_5/During the last week of 2012 I pushed out a new release of Hieroglyph.https://yergler.net/2013/01/06/tinkering/Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2013/01/06/tinkering/I’ve been contemplating leaving WordPress for a while.https://yergler.net/2012/10/01/things-that-turbo-pascal-is-smaller-than/Mon, 01 Oct 2012 08:31:37 +0000https://yergler.net/2012/10/01/things-that-turbo-pascal-is-smaller-than/The entire Turbo Pascal 3.https://yergler.net/2012/09/03/dear-poet-to-survival/Mon, 03 Sep 2012 16:00:46 +0000https://yergler.net/2012/09/03/dear-poet-to-survival/I had no answer except I love Frank O’Hara which I didn’t voice because I knew it was not the answer.https://yergler.net/2012/06/23/hate-hate-hate-everywhere/Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:04:54 +0000https://yergler.net/2012/06/23/hate-hate-hate-everywhere/Armin Ronacher is one of my favorite Python bloggers these days, and his post Python Packaging: Hate, hate, hate everywhere continues the trend of context and depth.https://yergler.net/2012/06/07/mapping-file-paths-for-pdbtrack/Thu, 07 Jun 2012 07:04:03 +0000https://yergler.net/2012/06/07/mapping-file-paths-for-pdbtrack/I saw python-mode 6.https://yergler.net/2012/06/05/hieroglyph-0-3-2/Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:22:29 +0000https://yergler.net/2012/06/05/hieroglyph-0-3-2/Since PyCon I’ve continued to think about how I can make slides from ReStructured Text documents and vice versa.https://yergler.net/2012/05/22/advice-for-the-new-guy/Tue, 22 May 2012 18:10:20 +0000https://yergler.net/2012/05/22/advice-for-the-new-guy/We have three people joining the team at Eventbrite in the next month, and we’ve been talking about how to “indoctrinate” them in the Eventbrite Way.https://yergler.net/2012/05/16/new-foundations/Wed, 16 May 2012 23:13:57 +0000https://yergler.net/2012/05/16/new-foundations/I’ve written a little about how I think about technical debt, and what it means to live with it.https://yergler.net/2012/05/15/living-with-it/Tue, 15 May 2012 21:32:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2012/05/15/living-with-it/So now that I’ve talked about what I think of when I say “technical debt”, I want to dig in on the other half of the title, “Living With It”.https://yergler.net/2012/05/14/living-with-technical-debt-part-one/Mon, 14 May 2012 21:29:05 +0000https://yergler.net/2012/05/14/living-with-technical-debt-part-one/I’m speaking at Velocity next month on “Living with Technical Debt”.https://yergler.net/2012/05/13/mastery/Sun, 13 May 2012 19:28:15 +0000https://yergler.net/2012/05/13/mastery/A few years ago I decided to take a writing class at City College of San Francisco.https://yergler.net/2012/04/28/korea-travelogue/Sat, 28 Apr 2012 19:55:02 +0000https://yergler.net/2012/04/28/korea-travelogue/I arrived home in San Francisco five hours ago from my first ever trip to Asia.https://yergler.net/2012/03/13/hieroglyph/Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:31:16 +0000https://yergler.net/2012/03/13/hieroglyph/I was happy to have my talk proposal accepted for PyCon this year, and happy with the feedback I received on my talk (Django Forms Deep Dive).https://yergler.net/prints/2012/sunset-sunset/Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:21:56 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2012/sunset-sunset/https://yergler.net/prints/2012/murphy-zoe/Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:37:19 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2012/murphy-zoe/https://yergler.net/prints/2012/marten/Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:33:02 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2012/marten/https://yergler.net/prints/2012/days-getting-shorter/Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:31:11 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2012/days-getting-shorter/https://yergler.net/prints/2012/patience/Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:58:31 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2012/patience/https://yergler.net/2011/12/04/the-oot-killer/Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:43:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2011/12/04/the-oot-killer/Recently I have been suffering from the delusion that making more commitments will make me more able to achieve them.https://yergler.net/2011/09/26/getelget-update/Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:59:24 +0000https://yergler.net/2011/09/26/getelget-update/Last week one of my Emacs using colleagues asked me how I managed my Emacs packages and configuration.https://yergler.net/2011/07/04/super-self/Mon, 04 Jul 2011 20:44:23 +0000https://yergler.net/2011/07/04/super-self/I’ve learned (and remembered) a lot in the past two months as I’ve gotten back to coding as my primary job.https://yergler.net/2011/04/24/debugging-my-creative-process/Sun, 24 Apr 2011 10:22:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2011/04/24/debugging-my-creative-process/I’ve been taking print making classes this year, and have really enjoyed exploring something new.https://yergler.net/2011/04/19/managing-my-emacs-packages-with-el-get/Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:17:05 +0000https://yergler.net/2011/04/19/managing-my-emacs-packages-with-el-get/Update (20 April 2011): I’ve now tried this on my old MacBook running OS X 10.https://yergler.net/2011/04/18/the-new-thing/Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:44:05 +0000https://yergler.net/2011/04/18/the-new-thing/There’s lots of change going on in my life right now, and the most visible external indication of that is my job: April 15 was my last day at Creative Commons.https://yergler.net/2011/04/08/learning-from-the-web-for-learning-on-the-web/Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:45:10 +0000https://yergler.net/2011/04/08/learning-from-the-web-for-learning-on-the-web/Earlier this year Steven Stapleton from University of Nottingham emailed me and asked if I’d like to be a keynote speaker at OpenNottingham.https://yergler.net/2011/04/04/web-progress-notifications-in-fennec/Mon, 04 Apr 2011 20:41:18 +0000https://yergler.net/2011/04/04/web-progress-notifications-in-fennec/Working on OpenAttribute for Firefox Mobile (Fennec) yesterday, one of the first challenges I faced was how to get notification that a page had finished loading.https://yergler.net/2011/04/03/unexpected-attribution/Sun, 03 Apr 2011 10:53:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2011/04/03/unexpected-attribution/I’m working on adding support for Firefox Mobile to OpenAttribute this weekend.https://yergler.net/prints/2011/third-st-cranes/Sun, 23 Jan 2011 05:28:12 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2011/third-st-cranes/https://yergler.net/prints/2011/untitled-sutro-i-ii-iii/Sun, 23 Jan 2011 05:24:34 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2011/untitled-sutro-i-ii-iii/https://yergler.net/prints/2011/more-to-love/Sun, 23 Jan 2011 05:19:07 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2011/more-to-love/https://yergler.net/prints/2011/golden-gate-vi/Sun, 23 Jan 2011 05:00:14 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2011/golden-gate-vi/https://yergler.net/prints/2011/nasturtiums/Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:07:29 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2011/nasturtiums/https://yergler.net/2011/01/07/css3-license-layers/Fri, 07 Jan 2011 22:54:20 +0000https://yergler.net/2011/01/07/css3-license-layers/TL;DR: Go check out the CSS3-based visualization of the CC license model (Chrome, Safari, or Firefox 4).https://yergler.net/prints/2011/sunset-sunset/Sat, 01 Jan 2011 19:15:54 +0000https://yergler.net/prints/2011/sunset-sunset/https://yergler.net/2010/12/31/minor-update-for-openattribute/Fri, 31 Dec 2010 13:02:03 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/12/31/minor-update-for-openattribute/I’ve just pushed a minor update to OpenAttribute to github .https://yergler.net/2010/12/29/licenses-attribution-in-firefox-openattribute/Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:00:52 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/12/29/licenses-attribution-in-firefox-openattribute/Seven years ago I started working on MozCC, an add-on for Firefox that exposed Creative Commons license information embedded in web pages.https://yergler.net/2010/10/01/write-it-out/Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:33:44 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/10/01/write-it-out/You should go read Marc’s write-up of why Wesabe “lost” to Mint 1; it’s interesting, insightful, and clearly written.https://yergler.net/2010/09/23/diaspora-community/Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:58:23 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/09/23/diaspora-community/Lots has been written about Diaspora already, so I’ll try to keep this as brief as possible.https://yergler.net/2010/09/06/book-report-the-no-asshole-rule-by-robert-sutton/Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:50:46 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/09/06/book-report-the-no-asshole-rule-by-robert-sutton/My annual review at Creative Commons took place at the end of July, and like last year, the emphasis was on the growing area of focus for me: management.https://yergler.net/2010/08/29/galaxy-s-t-mobile-vibrant-tethering/Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:56:18 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/08/29/galaxy-s-t-mobile-vibrant-tethering/Seeing Tim Bray’s post on how much he loves tethering his Nexus One reminded me that I wanted to document that this does, indeed, work on a rooted Galaxy S.https://yergler.net/2010/08/22/improving-a-samsung-galaxy-s/Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:45:51 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/08/22/improving-a-samsung-galaxy-s/I stood in line almost two years ago for the G1.https://yergler.net/2010/08/20/ci-at-cc/Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:37:43 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/08/20/ci-at-cc/I wrote about our roll-out of Hudson on the CC Labs blog .https://yergler.net/2010/06/06/reading-update-short-reviews/Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:14:22 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/06/06/reading-update-short-reviews/I’ve been delinquent in posting about what I’ve been reading.https://yergler.net/2010/06/06/read-django-1-1-testing-and-debugging-by-karen-m-tracey/Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:42:47 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/06/06/read-django-1-1-testing-and-debugging-by-karen-m-tracey/Packt Publishing sent me a copy of `Django 1.https://yergler.net/2010/06/06/batteries-included-or-maildir-to-mbox-again/Sun, 06 Jun 2010 13:04:29 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/06/06/batteries-included-or-maildir-to-mbox-again/UPDATE 7 June 2010: Added usage information to docstring.https://yergler.net/2010/05/16/preread-django-1-1-testing-and-debugging-by-karen-m-tracey/Sun, 16 May 2010 21:39:04 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/05/16/preread-django-1-1-testing-and-debugging-by-karen-m-tracey/Another Packt Publishing title is on the way for review, `Django 1.https://yergler.net/2010/05/08/wwdc-wag/Sat, 08 May 2010 23:33:20 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/05/08/wwdc-wag/People put a lot of time and effort into reading the Apple (and Steve J.https://yergler.net/2010/05/02/read-grok-1-0-web-development-by-carlos-de-la-guardia/Sun, 02 May 2010 15:36:19 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/05/02/read-grok-1-0-web-development-by-carlos-de-la-guardia/A month and a half ago I posted a pre-review of `Grok 1.https://yergler.net/2010/04/22/civicon-plenary-what-are-we-paying-for/Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:41:29 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/04/22/civicon-plenary-what-are-we-paying-for/I’m spending part of my day today at the first ever CiviCon , a one day conference for the CiviCRM community.https://yergler.net/2010/03/30/back-to-the-future-desktop-applications/Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:04:03 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/03/30/back-to-the-future-desktop-applications/One of the best prepared talks I saw at PyCon this year was on Phatch , a cross-platform photo processing application written in Python.https://yergler.net/2010/03/29/perfection-is-not-an-option/Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:04:46 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/03/29/perfection-is-not-an-option/My friend Andy, a successful organizational development consultant, moved to Ohio last year to pursue an MFA in playwriting.https://yergler.net/2010/03/28/read-invisible-by-paul-auster/Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:04:26 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/03/28/read-invisible-by-paul-auster/There are a few authors who I’ll follow just about anywhere; Paul Auster is one of them.https://yergler.net/2010/03/28/using-pip-with-buildout/Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:05:22 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/03/28/using-pip-with-buildout/I’ve been asked to add a blog to koucou , and this has turned out to be more of a learning experience than I expected.https://yergler.net/2010/03/22/civicon-next-month-in-san-francisco/Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:47:53 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/03/22/civicon-next-month-in-san-francisco/I’m honored to be asked to kick off the first ever CiviCon next month in San Francisco .https://yergler.net/2010/03/16/pre-read-grok-1-0-web-development/Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:14:50 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/03/16/pre-read-grok-1-0-web-development/|image0| Late last month I received an email from Packt Publishing (en.https://yergler.net/2010/03/10/meta-whats-up-with-all-the-reading/Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:04:26 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/03/10/meta-whats-up-with-all-the-reading/So far this year, I’ve published seven posts with the tag “reading “.https://yergler.net/2010/03/09/for-some-definition-of-reusable/Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:38:54 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/03/09/for-some-definition-of-reusable/I read “Why I switched to Pylons after using Django for six months” yesterday, and it mirrors something I’ve been thinking about off and on for the past year or so: what is the right level of abstraction for reuse in web applications?https://yergler.net/2010/03/06/read-spooner-by-pete-dexter/Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:04:46 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/03/06/read-spooner-by-pete-dexter/Spooner, Pete Dexter’s latest novel, is not as consistent as The Paperboy , but that does not make it inferior.https://yergler.net/2010/03/05/read-fordlandia-by-greg-grandin/Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:15:41 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/03/05/read-fordlandia-by-greg-grandin/Fordlandia chronicles the rise and fall of eponymous rubber plantation established by Henry Ford in Brazil in 1927.https://yergler.net/2010/03/01/i18n-html-bring-the-pain/Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:21:20 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/03/01/i18n-html-bring-the-pain/I have to stay up a little later this evening than I’d planned, so as a result I’m finally going through all the tabs and browser windows I’ve had open on my personal laptop.https://yergler.net/2010/02/28/read-the-paperboy-by-pete-dexter/Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:06:06 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/02/28/read-the-paperboy-by-pete-dexter/I picked up The Paperboy after reading about Pete Dexter’s most recent novel, Spooner , on NPR.https://yergler.net/2010/02/24/six-word-memoir/Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:58:26 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/02/24/six-word-memoir/I received an email from my ninth grade English teacher a few days ago.https://yergler.net/2010/02/15/food-blogging-the-dutch-delight/Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:47:40 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/02/15/food-blogging-the-dutch-delight/Since moving to our new neighborhood, I’ve been cooking a lot more, particularly from the church cookbook I grew up with (see also, my post on Sugar Crème Küchen ).https://yergler.net/2010/02/15/done-with-citi-first-greg-apartments/Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:50:50 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/02/15/done-with-citi-first-greg-apartments/A few days ago I published a post about CitiApartments and 400 Duboce that’s been flagged “private” since January 5.https://yergler.net/2010/02/04/houston-connexions/Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:15:06 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/02/04/houston-connexions/I spent the first half of this week in Houston, Texas for the Connexions Consortium Meeting and Conference .https://yergler.net/2010/02/03/most-popular-erroneous-post/Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:41:14 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/02/03/most-popular-erroneous-post/There are a few posts on my site that get the lion’s share of traffic.https://yergler.net/2010/01/26/ugly-pretty-special-2/Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:04:22 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/01/26/ugly-pretty-special-2/Another example of the power of young adult fiction .https://yergler.net/2010/01/25/thoughts-on-deploying-and-maintaining-smw-applications/Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:24:51 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/01/25/thoughts-on-deploying-and-maintaining-smw-applications/In September or October of last year, I received an email from someone who had come across CC Teamspace and was wondering if there was a demo site available they could use to evaluate it.https://yergler.net/2010/01/25/ocean-beach-between-the-storms/Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:04:20 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/01/25/ocean-beach-between-the-storms/I spent an hour or so Saturday morning at Ocean Beach with my friend Scott , taking some pictures.https://yergler.net/2010/01/24/read-when-you-reach-me-and-first-light-by-rebecca-stead/Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:31:19 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/01/24/read-when-you-reach-me-and-first-light-by-rebecca-stead/I just finished reading First Light, by Rebecca Stead , after reading When You Reach Me earlier this month.https://yergler.net/2010/01/21/san-francisco-habitation-take-two/Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:29:51 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/01/21/san-francisco-habitation-take-two/Last week I took two days off work and, combined with the three day weekend, uprooted my San Francisco existence to date, relocating to the Dogpatch .https://yergler.net/2010/01/07/actions-for-smw-applications-hypothetically/Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:13:41 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/01/07/actions-for-smw-applications-hypothetically/Talking about AcaWiki has me thinking some more about our experiences over the past couple years with Semantic MediaWiki , particularly about building “applications” with it.https://yergler.net/2010/01/07/the-meta-project-stack/Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:04:41 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/01/07/the-meta-project-stack/I guess I’m not the only one who gets distracted by meta projects , although Dave’s appear to actually be productive tangents.https://yergler.net/2010/01/06/read-a-single-man-by-christopher-isherwood/Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:38:40 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/01/06/read-a-single-man-by-christopher-isherwood/I picked up Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 novel, `A Single Man http://en.https://yergler.net/2010/01/06/we-called-it-magic/Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:04:13 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/01/06/we-called-it-magic/Just under ten years ago I started working at Canterbury School doing a variety of things.https://yergler.net/2010/01/05/caching-wsgi-applications-to-disk/Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:37:29 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/01/05/caching-wsgi-applications-to-disk/This morning I pushed the first release of wsgi_cache to the PyPI, laying the groundwork for increasing sanity in our deployment story at CC .https://yergler.net/2010/01/05/400-duboce-113-now-from-greg-apartments/Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:01:31 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/01/05/400-duboce-113-now-from-greg-apartments/So things are continuing to get a little weird at my current building.https://yergler.net/2010/01/04/acawiki-on-building-emerging-applications/Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:44:17 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/01/04/acawiki-on-building-emerging-applications/I’m woefully late in noting the launch of AcaWiki .https://yergler.net/2010/01/03/read-the-cactus-eaters-by-dan-white/Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:42:59 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/01/03/read-the-cactus-eaters-by-dan-white/I recently completed a writing class focused on creative non-fiction, specifically autobiography, or memoir (the course title used the former label, but “memoir” seems to be the label most often used for the genre).https://yergler.net/2010/01/02/meta/Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:13:41 +0000https://yergler.net/2010/01/02/meta/My friend and colleague Vern used to joke that it was more fun to write code to help you write code than it was to actually write code.https://yergler.net/2009/12/24/sugar-creme-kuchen/Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:14:08 +0000https://yergler.net/2009/12/24/sugar-creme-kuchen/I think this may be the first year ever that I’m not going to be in Indiana on Christmas Day.https://yergler.net/2009/10/19/thanks-i-think/Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:16:05 +0000https://yergler.net/2009/10/19/thanks-i-think/My vanity Google Alert turned up something a little strange today.https://yergler.net/2009/10/07/remembering-with-org-mode-and-ubiquity/Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:52:04 +0000https://yergler.net/2009/10/07/remembering-with-org-mode-and-ubiquity/Yesterday evening I published my second set of Ubiquity commands which provide a Ubiquity interface between Firefox and Emacs — specifically org-mode — using org-protocol .https://yergler.net/2009/10/06/communication-and-trust/Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:16:17 +0000https://yergler.net/2009/10/06/communication-and-trust/This afternoon I left work early to visit my landlord and try to iron out an issue that I’ve been dealing with for over two weeks.https://yergler.net/2009/10/05/aimee-mann-at-hardly-strictly-bluegrass/Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:28:34 +0000https://yergler.net/2009/10/05/aimee-mann-at-hardly-strictly-bluegrass/Sunday the weather in San Francisco shifted from San Francisco Autumn back to, well, San Francisco Summer: cool, windy, and clear; sunshine that imparts far less warmth than you might imagine.https://yergler.net/2009/09/27/nested-formsets-with-django/Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:42:42 +0000https://yergler.net/2009/09/27/nested-formsets-with-django/I've published an updated post about nested formsets, along with an generic implementation and demo application on GitHub.https://yergler.net/2009/09/25/pet-shop-boys-at-the-warfield-san-francisco/Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:05:12 +0000https://yergler.net/2009/09/25/pet-shop-boys-at-the-warfield-san-francisco/Wednesday evening I continued my ten year concert reunion with the Pet Shop Boys .https://yergler.net/2009/09/25/pycon-2010-cfp-five-days-left/Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:07:50 +0000https://yergler.net/2009/09/25/pycon-2010-cfp-five-days-left/The CFP for PyCon 2010 closes in five days.https://yergler.net/2009/07/25/gsc-bug-fixes/Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:41:27 +0000https://yergler.net/2009/07/25/gsc-bug-fixes/I announced gsc earlier this week because it worked for me.https://yergler.net/2009/07/21/git-svn-and-svnexternals/Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:47:17 +0000https://yergler.net/2009/07/21/git-svn-and-svnexternals/UPDATE I’ve pushed a few bug fixes; see this entry for details.https://yergler.net/2009/07/19/tori-amos-at-the-paramount-oakland/Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:28:48 +0000https://yergler.net/2009/07/19/tori-amos-at-the-paramount-oakland/Monday I saw Tori Amos at The Paramount, Oakland (setlist ).https://yergler.net/2009/07/11/rdfa-bookmarklets-for-ubiquity/Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:58:28 +0000https://yergler.net/2009/07/11/rdfa-bookmarklets-for-ubiquity/I’ve been aware of Ubiquity since it launched and have meant to dig in and play with it for a while.https://yergler.net/2009/04/20/open-access-and-linked-data/Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:06:50 +0000https://yergler.net/2009/04/20/open-access-and-linked-data/I traveled to the midwest late last month and made a few stops, including PyCon and a brief visit with my parents.https://yergler.net/2009/02/18/slides-for-all-audiences/Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:13:34 +0000https://yergler.net/2009/02/18/slides-for-all-audiences/Tufte tells us that filling our slides with reading material is bad form.https://yergler.net/2008/11/06/prop-8-candlelight-vigil/Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:42:23 +0000https://yergler.net/2008/11/06/prop-8-candlelight-vigil/As I mentioned yesterday , I’m in Cambridge through this evening.https://yergler.net/2008/11/05/the-day-after/Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:52:45 +0000https://yergler.net/2008/11/05/the-day-after/Last week I attended a meeting at Yale and had planned to spend the weekend with Matt and Alex in New York, flying back on Monday (the 3rd).https://yergler.net/2008/09/23/muni-to-run-windows/Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:37:28 +0000https://yergler.net/2008/09/23/muni-to-run-windows/As seen on SFist , SF MTA is asking for $300,000 to update the ATCS (Advanced Train Control System) — the software which runs the subway — to Windows.https://yergler.net/2008/08/21/upgrading-wordpress/Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:33:19 +0000https://yergler.net/2008/08/21/upgrading-wordpress/WordPress 2.https://yergler.net/2008/08/11/laptop-rejuvenation/Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:49:42 +0000https://yergler.net/2008/08/11/laptop-rejuvenation/I’ve owned my MacBook for about 18 months now, which is coming close to a record for me.https://yergler.net/2008/08/09/brief-thoughts-on-microsoft-apache-foundation/Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:23:44 +0000https://yergler.net/2008/08/09/brief-thoughts-on-microsoft-apache-foundation/I’m late with this (typical these days), but at OSCON a couple weeks ago Microsoft announced they’re supporting the Apache Foundation .https://yergler.net/2008/08/02/plus-one/Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:48:25 +0000https://yergler.net/2008/08/02/plus-one/What were they thinking?https://yergler.net/2008/07/23/oscon-2008/Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:28:43 +0000https://yergler.net/2008/07/23/oscon-2008/I’m in Portland, Oregon this week for OSCON 2008 .https://yergler.net/2008/07/20/first-world-problems/Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:42:23 +0000https://yergler.net/2008/07/20/first-world-problems/I did a closet purge today and wound up with four garbage bags of clothes to donate.https://yergler.net/2008/07/19/unicode-output-from-zope-3/Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:57:33 +0000https://yergler.net/2008/07/19/unicode-output-from-zope-3/The Creative Commons licene engine has gone through several iterations, the most recent being a Zope 3 / Grok application.https://yergler.net/2008/07/13/ubuntu-netbook-remix-on-the-eee-pc/Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:39:53 +0000https://yergler.net/2008/07/13/ubuntu-netbook-remix-on-the-eee-pc/Last year when Asus released the original Eee PC 7xx series, a colleage and I made a lunch-time trek to Central Computers down the street and each picked up a 701 with 4 GB SSD and Linux.https://yergler.net/2008/07/10/readonly-attachments-for-thunderbird-2/Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:10:48 +0000https://yergler.net/2008/07/10/readonly-attachments-for-thunderbird-2/Last seen here two years ago , I’ve just updated Readonly Attachments for Thunderbird 2 .https://yergler.net/2008/06/19/technology-summit/Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:13:13 +0000https://yergler.net/2008/06/19/technology-summit/Yesterday was the first ever Creative Commons Technology Summit , hosted at Google.https://yergler.net/2008/06/13/avoiding_git_ptsd/Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:56:25 +0000https://yergler.net/2008/06/13/avoiding_git_ptsd/In an attempt to prevent additional git (or maybe just git-svn?https://yergler.net/2008/06/11/getting-things-zerod/Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:18:16 +0000https://yergler.net/2008/06/11/getting-things-zerod/I really love task lists — especially the crossing off part — but lately they haven’t really been helping me out.https://yergler.net/2008/05/08/overheard-2/Thu, 08 May 2008 11:51:24 +0000https://yergler.net/2008/05/08/overheard-2/At the laundromat this morning, waiting for the cover for my sofa to dry.https://yergler.net/2008/05/05/friend-devaluation/Mon, 05 May 2008 10:23:09 +0000https://yergler.net/2008/05/05/friend-devaluation/I can’t take credit for finding it — that goes to Matt — but this video is a hilarious take on Facebook in real life.https://yergler.net/2008/04/22/openweb-2008-slides/Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:43:24 +0000https://yergler.net/2008/04/22/openweb-2008-slides/As promised, slides for my OpenWeb talk, Deploying the Semantic Web with ccREL and RDFa, are available .https://yergler.net/2008/04/14/openweb-2008-vancouver/Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:26:34 +0000https://yergler.net/2008/04/14/openweb-2008-vancouver/I’m in Canada (O!https://yergler.net/2008/03/11/technology-internships-at-creative-commons/Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:05:43 +0000https://yergler.net/2008/03/11/technology-internships-at-creative-commons/If you don’t read the Creative Commons blog, you missed the announcement that the deadline for applying to be a CC intern this summer has been extended until March 21 (a week from Friday).https://yergler.net/2008/02/19/co-working-in-the-chronicle/Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:50:33 +0000https://yergler.net/2008/02/19/co-working-in-the-chronicle/Two and a half years after I mentioned it , six months after we almost made a go of it at the coffee shop in Fort Wayne, co-working is in today’s San Francisco Chronicle .https://yergler.net/2008/02/15/strong-security-for-everyone/Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:34:49 +0000https://yergler.net/2008/02/15/strong-security-for-everyone/I received some press-release-spam this week that I actually didn’t mind.https://yergler.net/2008/02/09/this-is-the-best-we-can-do/Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:19:38 +0000https://yergler.net/2008/02/09/this-is-the-best-we-can-do/Still working on my slides for SCALE , decided to further delay productivity by putting together a brief set of steps on how to use OpenOffice.https://yergler.net/2008/02/09/color-me-open/Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:11:16 +0000https://yergler.net/2008/02/09/color-me-open/It’s not exactly a secret that OpenOffice.https://yergler.net/2008/02/07/this-week/Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:24:37 +0000https://yergler.net/2008/02/07/this-week/Things that I’ve done in the past seven days:https://yergler.net/2007/11/06/sane-merging-in-svn/Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:32:25 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/11/06/sane-merging-in-svn/We use Subversion for version control at work .https://yergler.net/2007/10/22/sun-rewrites-java-browser-plugin/Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:37:34 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/10/22/sun-rewrites-java-browser-plugin/I’m not sure that Java applets are even relevant to software development today, but this interview (via Ajaxian ) regarding the rewritten Java browser plugin caught my attention:https://yergler.net/2007/09/25/links-for-2007-09-25/Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:20:25 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/09/25/links-for-2007-09-25/7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails – O’Reilly Ruby There are no silver bullets.https://yergler.net/2007/07/20/modern-wilde/Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:02:47 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/07/20/modern-wilde/Cat and Girl is always good, but this one is absolutely amazing.https://yergler.net/2007/06/10/relocated/Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:47:03 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/06/10/relocated/Months sooner than I initially expected, I find myself living in San Francisco.https://yergler.net/2007/06/10/all-things-in-moderation/Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:20:06 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/06/10/all-things-in-moderation/Just a house-keeping note, Akismet seems to be missing lots of single-word comment link spam (ironically many of the comments have “sorry” as the body text; yeah, right).https://yergler.net/2007/05/21/links-for-2007-05-21/Mon, 21 May 2007 17:23:32 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/05/21/links-for-2007-05-21/Python Cheese Shop : mailinglogger 3.https://yergler.net/2007/05/11/links-for-2007-05-11/Fri, 11 May 2007 17:19:06 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/05/11/links-for-2007-05-11/ How to Write a Spelling Corrector Probability based spelling corrector, in 21 lines of Python (tags: python algorithm bayes spellcheck spelling)https://yergler.net/2007/05/10/pending-changes/Thu, 10 May 2007 10:48:09 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/05/10/pending-changes/I’ve avoided writing anything detailed about the changes happening in my life for a while now, mostly out of fear of “jinxing” something (and because I needed to get to a place where I was OK just talking about some of them).https://yergler.net/2007/05/02/sign-in-the-yard/Wed, 02 May 2007 06:56:05 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/05/02/sign-in-the-yard/1132 Westover So the realtor sign showed up in the yard yesterday while I was gone, and we had two showings last night.https://yergler.net/2007/04/27/fox-news-is-lamer-than-i-ever-imagined/Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:48:40 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/04/27/fox-news-is-lamer-than-i-ever-imagined/I’ve been working at a local coffee shop for the past hour, and for most of that Fox News (on the obligatory, hideous plasma television) has been showing a car chase in LA.https://yergler.net/2007/04/24/links-for-2007-04-24/Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:21:47 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/04/24/links-for-2007-04-24/django-openid – Google Code OpenID consumer implementation for Django.https://yergler.net/2007/04/19/links-for-2007-04-19/Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:21:03 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/04/19/links-for-2007-04-19/consensus Collaborative filtering models for Python.https://yergler.net/2007/04/18/links-for-2007-04-18/Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:20:16 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/04/18/links-for-2007-04-18/ Sparkle – Trac Automatic application upgrading for Mac OS X (tags: cocoa development macosx)https://yergler.net/2007/04/18/1132westoverinfo/Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:15:23 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/04/18/1132westoverinfo/We’re going to be listing the house in the next week or so; in the interim you can find the basic information, as well as links to maps and photos at 1132westover.https://yergler.net/2007/04/16/links-for-2007-04-16/Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:21:35 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/04/16/links-for-2007-04-16/Ladies and Gentlemen… Roxy Bellows!https://yergler.net/2007/04/12/creative-commons-techblog-launches/Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:25:19 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/04/12/creative-commons-techblog-launches/So we (Creative Commons) just launched our new TechBlog .https://yergler.net/2007/04/09/links-for-2007-04-09/Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:22:58 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/04/09/links-for-2007-04-09/bbPress » Integration with WordPress Integrating bbPress with WordPress (users, etc).https://yergler.net/2007/04/05/1132-westover/Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:18:22 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/04/05/1132-westover/I turned 30 in November of last year, and the months since have been full of changes.https://yergler.net/2007/03/28/links-for-2007-03-28/Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:23:04 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/03/28/links-for-2007-03-28/Triplr Triples for nothing, and chicks for free.https://yergler.net/2007/03/26/links-for-2007-03-26/Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:21:35 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/03/26/links-for-2007-03-26/ google-guice – Google Code Dependency injection for Java 5 (tags: java aop dependency-injection development)https://yergler.net/2007/03/22/open-source-is-my-day-job/Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:30:28 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/03/22/open-source-is-my-day-job/On Monday I gave a talk at the University of Michigan School of Information on what it’s like to run an open source project and things to think about it you’re going to do it as part of a business.https://yergler.net/2007/03/22/the-gym/Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:46:19 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/03/22/the-gym/I’ve taken up running over the past month and a half.https://yergler.net/2007/03/22/fiesty-macbook-update/Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:42:52 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/03/22/fiesty-macbook-update/I wrote earlier about my initial experiences of putting Ubuntu 7.https://yergler.net/2007/03/20/links-for-2007-03-20/Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:21:35 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/03/20/links-for-2007-03-20/ An evening with Google’s Marissa Mayer [Alan Williamson] (tags: google hci usertesting)https://yergler.net/2007/03/18/links-for-2007-03-18/Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:19:44 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/03/18/links-for-2007-03-18/ mengwong – Career advice for Nishhttps://yergler.net/2007/03/08/links-for-2007-03-08/Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:22:32 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/03/08/links-for-2007-03-08/Python HTML Filter Filter HTML by closing tags, stripping all-but-allowed tags, and preventing hosts/paths from hrefs.https://yergler.net/2007/03/06/for-some-definition-of-online/Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:08:27 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/03/06/for-some-definition-of-online/Starting yesterday afternoon I found that I couldn’t commit code to Creative Commons’ Subversion repository at Sourceforge .https://yergler.net/2007/03/01/links-for-2007-03-01/Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:24:56 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/03/01/links-for-2007-03-01/learning python » Blog Archive » Building an Application with PyGTK and Glade (tags: pygtk python gnome glade gui) ReUsable Web Components with Python and Future Python Web Development – Google Video (tags: video softwareengineering wsgi python) Ajaxian » Dojo File Upload Progress Bar Widget (tags: dojo ajax javascript) Using the Desktop Version of the MoinMoin Wiki with iFolder Using the “desktop” version of MoinMoin as a local wiki, replicated with iFolder (tags: ifolder moinmoin) FineTooth Development » A Better File Upload Progress Bar using Python, Ajax Prototype, & JSON (tags: ajax python javascript progressbar) EclipseZone – Why You Should Use Eclipse RCP (In 10 Minutes) (tags: eclipse rcp java) ONJava.https://yergler.net/2007/02/25/making-fun-of-objects/Sun, 25 Feb 2007 13:19:22 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/02/25/making-fun-of-objects/Oh, wait; not that sort of mocking.https://yergler.net/2007/02/25/testing-with-fixtures/Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:48:58 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/02/25/testing-with-fixtures/Following Jim’s talk on zc.https://yergler.net/2007/02/25/testing-network-applications-with-ngi/Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:48:06 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/02/25/testing-network-applications-with-ngi/Following the keynote this morning, I attended Jim Fulton’s talk on testing network applications with the Network Gateway Interface.https://yergler.net/2007/02/24/testing-tools-panel-pycon/Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:06:19 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/02/24/testing-tools-panel-pycon/Matt summarizes the PyCon’s Testing Tools Panel far better than I could here .https://yergler.net/2007/02/24/links-for-2007-02-24/Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:22:54 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/02/24/links-for-2007-02-24/Aspen—a highly extensible Python web server A Python web server for running WSGI applications.https://yergler.net/2007/02/24/tagging-in-wordpress/Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:38:36 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/02/24/tagging-in-wordpress/Dear LazyWeb,https://yergler.net/2007/02/24/scaling-python-on-the-web/Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:35:29 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/02/24/scaling-python-on-the-web/First session of the day was on Scaling Python on the Web; rough notes which I may clean up later:https://yergler.net/2007/02/24/keynote-adele-goldberg/Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:52:25 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/02/24/keynote-adele-goldberg/The morning keynote for day 2 of PyCon was given by Adele Goldberg .https://yergler.net/2007/02/23/links-for-2007-02-23/Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:22:39 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/02/23/links-for-2007-02-23/NPR Podcast Directory OPML Directory of NPR podcasts (tags: opml npr podcast) The Object HTTP Mapper Mapping Python objects to a REST-ish server API.https://yergler.net/2007/02/23/web-web-afternoon/Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:10:01 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/02/23/web-web-afternoon/Lunch: tasty “Mexican” food, including those tasty cinnamon-sugar coated crunchy-chewy desserty things.https://yergler.net/2007/02/23/pycon-day-1-morning-sessions/Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:36:19 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/02/23/pycon-day-1-morning-sessions/This morning following the “keynote”, I attended the “State fo Zope Panel”.https://yergler.net/2007/02/23/pycon-keynote-ivan-krstic/Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:03:41 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/02/23/pycon-keynote-ivan-krstic/I finally made it to the conference hotel this morning at 4AM.https://yergler.net/2007/02/22/heading-to-pycon/Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:11:54 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/02/22/heading-to-pycon/I’ve spent the first part of this week in San Francisco for some face time with the rest of the Creative Commons staff and participating in what I believe are our first all-staff meetings [1]2{#id1.https://yergler.net/2007/02/20/links-for-2007-02-20/Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:21:38 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/02/20/links-for-2007-02-20/ How to Build an XPCOM Component in Javascript – MDC (tags: xpcom Javascript mozilla) Implementing XPCOM components in JavaScript – MozillaZine Knowledge Base (tags: mozilla Javascript xpcom) Using XPCOM in JavaScript without leaking (tags: Javascript xpcom mozilla memory management)https://yergler.net/2007/02/19/a-feisty-macbook/Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:55:46 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/02/19/a-feisty-macbook/After the HP woes (which are incidentally ongoing, and if they didn’t make me so persistently pissed and angry I might actually write about them) and a nice tax refund check have caused me to go notebook shopping.https://yergler.net/2007/02/19/links-for-2007-02-19/Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:24:22 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/02/19/links-for-2007-02-19/MacBook – Debian Wiki Notes on installing Debian on a new MacBook; most apply to Ubuntu Feisty as well.https://yergler.net/2007/02/17/links-for-2007-02-17/Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:18:56 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/02/17/links-for-2007-02-17/Gnome Graphics Tablet Apps Wacom configuration applet for Gnome.https://yergler.net/2007/02/14/links-for-2007-02-14/Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:23:34 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/02/14/links-for-2007-02-14/openbookplatform – Google Code A Django-based platform for authoring a book in reStructured Text format.https://yergler.net/2007/02/13/snowed-in/Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:54:45 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/02/13/snowed-in/So Fort Wayne and the surrounding county is under a “Level 2 Snow Emergency” until further notice.https://yergler.net/2007/02/08/passing-the-buck/Thu, 08 Feb 2007 22:52:54 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/02/08/passing-the-buck/Let’s say, just hypothetically, of course, that one day your laptop, which is less than six months old, suddenly has multiple failures: the backlight, optical drive and touch pad all die.https://yergler.net/2007/01/30/the-little-things/Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:00:21 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/01/30/the-little-things/I’m knee deep in several projects right now, some using darcs and some using subversion for version control.https://yergler.net/2007/01/12/give-me-an-sdk-or-give-your-product-death/Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:10:49 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/01/12/give-me-an-sdk-or-give-your-product-death/Yeah, I know it’s not nearly as catchy as the Patrick Henry original, but then what is?https://yergler.net/2007/01/10/wiki-licensing-for-moinmoin/Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:11:10 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/01/10/wiki-licensing-for-moinmoin/I’ve been using MoinMoin for managing the non-blog content of yergler.https://yergler.net/2007/01/03/pycon-2007-early-bird-registration-closing-soon/Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:41:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2007/01/03/pycon-2007-early-bird-registration-closing-soon/So I’m registered and have my plane ticket for PyCon 2007 , taking place once again in the lovely Addison, Texas .https://yergler.net/2006/12/18/fonts-and-planning-with-emacs-23/Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:50:43 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/12/18/fonts-and-planning-with-emacs-23/Lately I’ve become enamoured with Emacs planner-mode which allows me to use Emacs to maintain task lists and schedule information in a psuedo-wiki-like environment (courtesy of Emacs Muse ).https://yergler.net/2006/12/15/deploying-python-code-support-services/Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:00:12 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/12/15/deploying-python-code-support-services/Just over a month ago I blogged about my first experience with zc.https://yergler.net/2006/11/11/24-hours-with-the-sony-reader/Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:26:51 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/11/11/24-hours-with-the-sony-reader/Right, I know I promised I would tell a story about deploying software based on Django.https://yergler.net/2006/11/07/deploying-python-applications/Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:50:41 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/11/07/deploying-python-applications/This post started out as details of some Django work I’ve been doing lately.https://yergler.net/2006/10/24/hiding-dot-files/Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:31:46 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/10/24/hiding-dot-files/Dear Lazy Web,https://yergler.net/2006/10/19/i-almost-forgot/Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:50:10 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/10/19/i-almost-forgot/(well, not really) …I’m an uncle now.https://yergler.net/2006/10/16/making-time/Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:27:24 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/10/16/making-time/I ran across Timeline a few weeks ago, from the folks who brought you PiggyBank .https://yergler.net/2006/10/14/toronto-bound/Sat, 14 Oct 2006 21:48:23 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/10/14/toronto-bound/So it looks like I’m going to be presenting at the Seneca Free Software and Open Source Symposium later this month.https://yergler.net/2006/10/11/get-out/Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:59:30 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/10/11/get-out/Today is National Coming Out Day.https://yergler.net/2006/10/08/office-plugin-self-examination-ooo-follow-up/Sun, 08 Oct 2006 11:37:07 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/10/08/office-plugin-self-examination-ooo-follow-up/Tom posted an insightful comment to my post from last week regarding the iSummit report.https://yergler.net/2006/10/06/critical-self-examination/Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:20:07 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/10/06/critical-self-examination/A recent message to the cc-icommons mailing list pointed readers to a self-described “slick” critical report of the iSummit held in Rio earlier this year.https://yergler.net/2006/10/02/rope-a-new-python-ide/Mon, 02 Oct 2006 08:17:45 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/10/02/rope-a-new-python-ide/I’m not sure how I found it, but over the weekend I ran across Rope , a Python IDE I hadn’t run into before.https://yergler.net/2006/09/29/im-confused/Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:57:48 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/09/29/im-confused/I tried to submit an update for MozCC to addons.https://yergler.net/2006/09/25/its-not-a-steaming-pile-of-shit-per-se/Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:07:37 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/09/25/its-not-a-steaming-pile-of-shit-per-se/Luis has some suggestions for the OpenOffice.https://yergler.net/2006/09/24/web-20/Sun, 24 Sep 2006 18:09:59 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/09/24/web-20/Struggle as you may to define Web 2.https://yergler.net/2006/08/28/geeks-booze/Mon, 28 Aug 2006 07:01:11 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/08/28/geeks-booze/If you’re a geek in the Fort Wayne area, join us on Monday, October 2, 2006, for the first booze-enabled Geek Dinner .https://yergler.net/2006/08/25/pixel-creek-redux/Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:31:19 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/08/25/pixel-creek-redux/A while back I blogged about my crappy, crappy experience with a local company Pixel Creek , who happens to be an authorized Apple Service Provider.https://yergler.net/2006/08/23/rich-editting-with-django-and-fckeditor/Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:39:12 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/08/23/rich-editting-with-django-and-fckeditor/After seeing their tutorial at OSCON last month, I’ve been playing Django in my spare time.https://yergler.net/2006/08/04/goodbye-linux-journal/Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:57:40 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/08/04/goodbye-linux-journal/So my subscription to Linux Journal has lapsed, and I’m not remotely disappointed.https://yergler.net/2006/08/04/hometown-pride/Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:12:36 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/08/04/hometown-pride/My hometown, Bluffton, Indiana, is featured in today’s USA Today.https://yergler.net/2006/07/31/overheard/Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:42:39 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/07/31/overheard/After OSCON last week I’m in San Francisco, getting some face time with the rest of the Creative Commons staff.https://yergler.net/2006/07/27/and-this-suprises-whom/Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:00:54 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/07/27/and-this-suprises-whom/Since I’m traveling for two weeks and won’t get my hair did while on the road, I also won’t get my fix of People Magazine (and Teen People, natch).https://yergler.net/2006/07/27/oscon-tutorials-in-review/Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:25:56 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/07/27/oscon-tutorials-in-review/So I’m speaking at OSCON this year on how we’re using the Zope 3 component model and infrastructure to make ccPublisher extensible.https://yergler.net/2006/07/18/subversion-cheat-sheet/Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:39:39 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/07/18/subversion-cheat-sheet/Since SourceForge started providing Subversion for source control, I’ve suddenly found myself in a world where none of the old CVS knowledge matters any more.https://yergler.net/2006/06/29/book-review-java-50-tiger-a-developers-notebook/Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:06:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/06/29/book-review-java-50-tiger-a-developers-notebook/Java 5.https://yergler.net/2006/06/21/on-my-way/Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:48:12 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/06/21/on-my-way/So I spent last week in sunny Key West for a post-graduation, much needed vacation.https://yergler.net/2006/06/08/live-from-tex-ass/Thu, 08 Jun 2006 08:06:02 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/06/08/live-from-tex-ass/Once again I’m late to the party, but I’ve been listening to Sufjan Stevens’ excellent `Come on feel the Illinoise http://en.https://yergler.net/2006/06/06/dear-mr-president/Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:04:30 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/06/06/dear-mr-president/I understand that you are quite concerned about judicial activism .https://yergler.net/2006/06/05/the-long-view/Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:51:41 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/06/05/the-long-view/If you want a thorough fisking of our esteemed President’s radio address yesterday (dedicated to the Federal Marriage Amendment , natch, because that’s the most pressing issue we face as a country), see Ted’s blog entry .https://yergler.net/2006/06/05/strategic-debugging/Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:07:40 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/06/05/strategic-debugging/At PyCon this year the folks from Wingware were kind enough to provide free licenses to Wing IDE Professional to all sprint participants.https://yergler.net/2006/05/25/what-sourceforge-got-right/Thu, 25 May 2006 07:58:06 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/05/25/what-sourceforge-got-right/A few months before SourceForge launched their Subversion support, I decided that I was spending far too many cycles managing external dependencies for ccPublisher .https://yergler.net/2006/05/25/summer-of-code-2006/Thu, 25 May 2006 07:23:28 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/05/25/summer-of-code-2006/Creative Commons is participating in the 2006 Google Summer of Code .https://yergler.net/2006/05/20/ccpublisher-2-released-and-released-and-released-again/Sat, 20 May 2006 18:07:21 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/05/20/ccpublisher-2-released-and-released-and-released-again/So ccPublisher 2 is finally out.https://yergler.net/2006/05/16/mozcc-resources-moved/Tue, 16 May 2006 12:27:29 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/05/16/mozcc-resources-moved/MozCC will be getting some much-needed attention this summer (wink, wink, nudge, nudge), so I took the opportunity to move the web content from my web server over to Creative Commons’ server.https://yergler.net/2006/05/14/goodbye-craig/Sun, 14 May 2006 18:48:17 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/05/14/goodbye-craig/It seems like I just did this for Tina , but I got the call today, about Craig.https://yergler.net/2006/05/12/educated-officially/Fri, 12 May 2006 08:20:26 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/05/12/educated-officially/So it’s official: I am educated.https://yergler.net/2006/05/01/finally-final-finals/Mon, 01 May 2006 15:29:39 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/05/01/finally-final-finals/It’s a little surreal, and more than a little overwhelming, but this is finals week at school.https://yergler.net/2006/04/05/pixel-creek-we-you-absolutely-want-the-very-worst/Wed, 05 Apr 2006 13:23:06 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/04/05/pixel-creek-we-you-absolutely-want-the-very-worst/So last week the new Mac Mini developed a problem.https://yergler.net/2006/03/22/my-pycon-talk-in-5-minutes/Wed, 22 Mar 2006 09:36:23 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/03/22/my-pycon-talk-in-5-minutes/My Senior Capstone Design Project professor asked me to give an abridged version of my PyCon talk, Extensible Desktop Applications with Zope 3 , to our class tomorrow.https://yergler.net/2006/03/22/yes-but-whos-writing-the-check/Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:56:13 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/03/22/yes-but-whos-writing-the-check/I’m in my last semester of undergraduate work, and between a full time school load and full time work load, some things fall through the cracks.https://yergler.net/2006/03/18/licenses-for-blogs/Sat, 18 Mar 2006 07:50:32 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/03/18/licenses-for-blogs/John Palfrey of the Berkman Center wrote a post proposing licenses specifically for blogs and feeds, based on Creative Commons licenses.https://yergler.net/2006/03/13/ccpublisher-2-beta-now-available/Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:20:20 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/03/13/ccpublisher-2-beta-now-available/ccPublisher 2 Beta 2 is now available .https://yergler.net/2006/03/12/readonly-attachments/Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:46:02 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/03/12/readonly-attachments/I suppose I should have blogged about it a while ago, but a while back I hacked together a Thunderbird extension at the request of a friend, and I went ahead and made it available through addons.https://yergler.net/2006/03/09/pycon-paper-slides-online/Thu, 09 Mar 2006 09:55:08 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/03/09/pycon-paper-slides-online/My slides and paper from PyCon 2006 are now online.https://yergler.net/2006/03/09/new-pythonorg-launched/Thu, 09 Mar 2006 09:53:38 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/03/09/new-pythonorg-launched/After teasing us with screenshots at PyCon 2005, the new python.https://yergler.net/2006/03/09/pycon-day-1-3/Thu, 09 Mar 2006 09:36:44 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/03/09/pycon-day-1-3/Friday was the first full day of talks at PyCon.https://yergler.net/2006/03/07/pycon-day-2-the-middle-child/Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:48:03 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/03/07/pycon-day-2-the-middle-child/The second day of PyCon started with Guido’s annual State of Python keynote, during which he described some new developments in the Python universe, and things that will be going into Python 2.https://yergler.net/2006/03/07/pycon-day-3-winding-down/Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:03:43 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/03/07/pycon-day-3-winding-down/Sunday, the third day of PyCon 2006, definitely felt like the day of rest.https://yergler.net/2006/03/07/zope-sprint-reflections/Tue, 07 Mar 2006 08:18:23 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/03/07/zope-sprint-reflections/So I’m more than a little behind on my PyCon wrap up posts, so I’ll start at the end, with the Zope Sprint.https://yergler.net/2006/03/03/helping-myself/Fri, 03 Mar 2006 08:34:33 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/03/03/helping-myself/I was looking at what it’s going to take to do i18n for ccPublisher this morning, so I searched for wxPython i18n xrc.https://yergler.net/2006/02/27/the-more-things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same-pycon-2006/Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:41:55 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/02/27/the-more-things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same-pycon-2006/I arrived in [STRIKEOUT:Dallas]Addison, TX Thursday night for PyCon 2006 .https://yergler.net/2006/02/26/kruskal-v-prim-to-the-death/Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:37:21 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/02/26/kruskal-v-prim-to-the-death/This semester I have an Algorithms course, and it’s actually turning out to be one of my favorites.https://yergler.net/2006/02/20/reasons-to-dislike-children-5436-and-5437/Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:09:57 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/02/20/reasons-to-dislike-children-5436-and-5437/Updated December 29, 2009https://yergler.net/2006/02/14/liberal-licensing-yahoo-gets-it-right/Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:55:31 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/02/14/liberal-licensing-yahoo-gets-it-right/Via the O’Reilly Radar I saw that Yahoo (excuse me, “Yahoo!https://yergler.net/2006/02/14/happy-vd/Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:23:24 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/02/14/happy-vd/Am I the only one who’s noticed that “Valentine’s Day” and veneral disease have the same initials?https://yergler.net/2006/02/13/sad-mac/Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:18:28 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/02/13/sad-mac/So my iMac (a 17” G4/1.https://yergler.net/2006/02/06/cc-internships/Mon, 06 Feb 2006 21:11:38 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/02/06/cc-internships/As promised to some readers, here’s your official notice: the call for CC Summer Interns is now up .https://yergler.net/2006/02/06/pedro-pycon-a-good-week/Mon, 06 Feb 2006 10:36:52 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/02/06/pedro-pycon-a-good-week/So yet another reason to be excited about PyCon coming up at the end of the month: I just snagged tickets to see Pedro The Lion while I’m in Dallas.https://yergler.net/2006/02/04/wtf/Sat, 04 Feb 2006 10:42:15 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/02/04/wtf/I went to Panera Bread for a bagel and some tea this morning, and took my laptop along to check email adn get started on some work for the day.https://yergler.net/2006/02/03/when-it-rains-it-pours/Fri, 03 Feb 2006 14:18:18 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/02/03/when-it-rains-it-pours/It’s never an isolated incident ; yesterday I received a note from another family member that included the sentence:https://yergler.net/2006/02/01/one-step-forward-two-steps-back/Wed, 01 Feb 2006 07:24:51 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/02/01/one-step-forward-two-steps-back/I had dinner with my grandfather last night.https://yergler.net/2006/01/30/i-cant-say-no/Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:02:36 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/01/30/i-cant-say-no/So it looks like I’ll be reprising my Purdue LUG talk at least two more times — once for the Canterbury High School student body (March 8 — email me for time and details if you’re in the area), and again for the Fort Wayne LUG for their March meeting (March 16, 7:00pm).https://yergler.net/2006/01/27/coolness-smackdown/Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:27:04 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/01/27/coolness-smackdown/Apparently I’m cooler than Mike — more accurately my domain is: yergler.https://yergler.net/2006/01/25/purdue-talk-slides-available/Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:21:23 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/01/25/purdue-talk-slides-available/Slides from my Purdue Talk are available .https://yergler.net/2006/01/24/debugging-xul-and-javascript/Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:31:09 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/01/24/debugging-xul-and-javascript/Firebug is a wicked cool extension for Firefox which rolls the Javascript console, DOM Inspector and logging console all into one.https://yergler.net/2006/01/24/mozcc-on-addonsmozillaorg/Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:16:57 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/01/24/mozcc-on-addonsmozillaorg/mozCC is now hosted over at addons.https://yergler.net/2006/01/22/sign-me-up/Sun, 22 Jan 2006 12:44:59 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/01/22/sign-me-up/Well when you put it that way , who wouldn’t want the job?https://yergler.net/2006/01/20/upgraded-internet-access/Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:19:27 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/01/20/upgraded-internet-access/Aaron wrote about dumping Earthlink DSL for Time-Warner cable internet service.https://yergler.net/2006/01/06/mozcc-now-with-support-for-flock/Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:00:03 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/01/06/mozcc-now-with-support-for-flock/Yeah, an upgrade for mozCC .https://yergler.net/2006/01/04/amoebas/Wed, 04 Jan 2006 01:42:48 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/01/04/amoebas/Went to Amoeba Records on Haight Street with a local friend last night.https://yergler.net/2006/01/02/to-san-francisco-by-way-of-dallas-and-lovely-amarillo/Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:02:50 +0000https://yergler.net/2006/01/02/to-san-francisco-by-way-of-dallas-and-lovely-amarillo/I’m working at Creative Commons San Francisco office this week.https://yergler.net/2005/12/30/wplicense-updated/Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:58:05 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/12/30/wplicense-updated/So there’s a minor update available for wpLicense , and it’ll probably be most interesting to the Mac users in the audience.https://yergler.net/2005/12/30/ccpublisher-2-beta-1-is-out-the-door/Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:05:39 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/12/30/ccpublisher-2-beta-1-is-out-the-door/It’s late, it’s delayed, and it doesn’t do everything I wanted it to.https://yergler.net/2005/12/30/upgrading/Fri, 30 Dec 2005 09:03:37 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/12/30/upgrading/Just over a year ago I needed a new notebook, and ended up buying an HP DV1000 series.https://yergler.net/2005/12/28/now-with-vitamin-k2/Wed, 28 Dec 2005 22:05:18 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/12/28/now-with-vitamin-k2/So I’m using K2 on TLOA now… we’ll see how it goes.https://yergler.net/2005/12/22/fsm-right-here-in-indiana/Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:38:38 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/12/22/fsm-right-here-in-indiana/I was just looking at the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster , and imagine my surprise (or lack there of, in retrospect) when I saw my childhood school on the list of CC’d school boards: Bluffton-Harrison Metropolitan Schools .https://yergler.net/2005/12/15/mozcc-updates/Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:12:09 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/12/15/mozcc-updates/So Hal pointed out that mozCC 1.https://yergler.net/2005/12/08/snow/Thu, 08 Dec 2005 22:06:37 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/12/08/snow/It’s Snow!https://yergler.net/2005/12/08/continued-craziness/Thu, 08 Dec 2005 07:24:26 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/12/08/continued-craziness/Last project due today and then perhaps the sleep deprivation will stop.https://yergler.net/2005/12/07/just-a-little-crazy/Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:33:28 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/12/07/just-a-little-crazy/So I’m sitting at the coffee shop, up since 4 AM, more than a little sleep deprived working on finishing my software engineering presentation for this morning.https://yergler.net/2005/12/05/pycon-2006/Mon, 05 Dec 2005 08:53:40 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/12/05/pycon-2006/So registration is open for PyCon 2006, taking place in lovely greater Dallas late February, 2006.https://yergler.net/2005/12/03/yeah-get-over-your-issues/Sat, 03 Dec 2005 16:03:03 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/12/03/yeah-get-over-your-issues/So Good As You pointed out an article on the American Family Associations website which highlights the work of (and I can’t make this up) Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation (JAACD).https://yergler.net/2005/12/01/one-minute/Thu, 01 Dec 2005 12:41:54 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/12/01/one-minute/Stop, take a minute, and reflect .https://yergler.net/2005/11/30/from-incompetence-to-negligence/Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:29:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/11/30/from-incompetence-to-negligence/I’ve been watching a lot of Frontline lately on PBS .https://yergler.net/2005/11/29/j2me-development-part-2/Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:26:49 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/11/29/j2me-development-part-2/So in a previous post I compared two recent mobile development projects: one using J2ME for Motorola IDEN phones, and the other using Python for Nokia Series 60 phones.https://yergler.net/2005/11/29/like-thats-a-bad-thing/Tue, 29 Nov 2005 08:30:58 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/11/29/like-thats-a-bad-thing/OK, so let’s ignore for a moment the fact that I just don’t understand Log Cabin Republicans (rel=nofollow, of course).https://yergler.net/2005/11/25/cold-hard-cash/Fri, 25 Nov 2005 08:13:04 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/11/25/cold-hard-cash/So I saw two movies over the past two days, both “bio-pics” and both quite good in their own way.https://yergler.net/2005/11/23/its-a-start-3/Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:24:18 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/11/23/its-a-start-3/We’ve been enjoying something of an Indian Summer for the past few weeks here in Indiana.https://yergler.net/2005/11/18/its-the-pluralism-stupid/Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:24:32 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/11/18/its-the-pluralism-stupid/It’s no secret or suprise that I disagree with much of what the current presidential administration puts forward as policy.https://yergler.net/2005/11/17/mobile-development-compared/Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:15:30 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/11/17/mobile-development-compared/_*Update:* I’ve posted a follow up here _https://yergler.net/2005/11/08/custom-log-formats-with-squid/Tue, 08 Nov 2005 09:53:54 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/11/08/custom-log-formats-with-squid/[The first in a series of posts to help me (and hopefully others) remember how to get `Zope http://zope.https://yergler.net/2005/10/27/reasons-for-a-no-vote/Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:12:08 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/10/27/reasons-for-a-no-vote/So as you’ve probably heard, Miers has withdrawn herself from consideration for Sandra Day O’Connor’s seat on the Supreme Court.https://yergler.net/2005/10/17/a-matter-of-perspective-i-guess/Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:55:24 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/10/17/a-matter-of-perspective-i-guess/Joel relates an interesting way to look at the big boys of tech:https://yergler.net/2005/10/10/there-goes-my-vc-funding/Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:24:34 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/10/10/there-goes-my-vc-funding/So I just saw a story reporting that Palm is replacing the SIM tray for Treo 650 users.https://yergler.net/2005/10/10/gnome-summit-day-2/Mon, 10 Oct 2005 07:57:22 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/10/10/gnome-summit-day-2/Yesterday, the second day of the summit , was more hacking, less talk.https://yergler.net/2005/10/09/mozcc-113-for-firefox-15-beta-2/Sun, 09 Oct 2005 13:53:52 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/10/09/mozcc-113-for-firefox-15-beta-2/Maybe it’s just the hacking environment here at the Summit, but I’ve been hella productive today.https://yergler.net/2005/10/09/mozcc-with-firefox-15-beta-2/Sun, 09 Oct 2005 10:47:04 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/10/09/mozcc-with-firefox-15-beta-2/Just a quick note to head off the stream of email I’ve been receiving (yes, both of them): mozCC doesn’t work with Firefox 1.https://yergler.net/2005/10/08/book-review-hibernate-a-developers-notebook/Sat, 08 Oct 2005 21:10:43 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/10/08/book-review-hibernate-a-developers-notebook/Hibernate: A Developer’s Notebook James Elliothttps://yergler.net/2005/10/08/gnome-summit-day-1/Sat, 08 Oct 2005 20:51:55 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/10/08/gnome-summit-day-1/After a too-short night of sleep, the Gnome Summit got underway this morning.https://yergler.net/2005/10/07/traveling/Fri, 07 Oct 2005 21:58:10 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/10/07/traveling/So it’s a testament to the complete insanity of my life lately that my last post was over 10 days ago, and it was about the event I just arrived at.https://yergler.net/2005/09/22/upcoming-event-gnome-boston-summit/Thu, 22 Sep 2005 07:49:08 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/09/22/upcoming-event-gnome-boston-summit/I’m going to be traveling to Boston for the first time in October for the Gnome Boston Summit 2005 .https://yergler.net/2005/09/20/whats-the-point/Tue, 20 Sep 2005 19:35:54 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/09/20/whats-the-point/Just watched the Six Feet Under series finale again.https://yergler.net/2005/09/19/bad-mood-monday/Mon, 19 Sep 2005 08:57:31 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/09/19/bad-mood-monday/I’m in a bitter, foul mood this morning after yesterday’s news .https://yergler.net/2005/09/18/i-miss-tina/Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:30:27 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/09/18/i-miss-tina/It’s hard to know how to begin an entry like this.https://yergler.net/2005/09/12/pycon-2006-cfp-out/Mon, 12 Sep 2005 07:42:11 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/09/12/pycon-2006-cfp-out/This year PyCon is moving from our home at George Washington University’s Cafritz Center to sunny (I assume) Dallas.https://yergler.net/2005/09/09/the-media-gets-it-right/Fri, 09 Sep 2005 09:22:19 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/09/09/the-media-gets-it-right/Bush Disaster Originally uploaded by adampsyche.https://yergler.net/2005/09/08/ccpublisher-python-and-xml/Thu, 08 Sep 2005 16:56:35 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/09/08/ccpublisher-python-and-xml/So two days ago I launched the first Developer Preview of ccPublisher 2 for Linux, promising Windows and Mac OS X builds “within the day.https://yergler.net/2005/09/08/its-a-start-2/Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:58:51 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/09/08/its-a-start-2/This might not be the solution, but it’s better than anything I’ve seen the Bush administration propose for dealing with the aftermath of Katrina.https://yergler.net/2005/09/08/mozcc-112-out/Thu, 08 Sep 2005 09:52:45 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/09/08/mozcc-112-out/mozCC 1.https://yergler.net/2005/08/31/searching-with-a-spotlight/Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:59:23 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/08/31/searching-with-a-spotlight/I played with Apple’s Spotlight quite a bit when I was prototyping the Creative Commons extension to it.https://yergler.net/2005/08/22/using-wplicense/Mon, 22 Aug 2005 06:49:26 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/08/22/using-wplicense/Ted is trying to use the wpLicense WordPress plugin and ran into some problems.https://yergler.net/2005/08/18/uh-bullshit/Thu, 18 Aug 2005 14:41:29 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/08/18/uh-bullshit/Hilary Rosen is guest-blogging for our esteemed chairman , and while it makes perfect sense in theory — CC is not about tearing down copyright, but about building a better system within it’s confines — I call bullshit.https://yergler.net/2005/08/17/packaging-applications-for-linux-with-autopackage/Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:02:05 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/08/17/packaging-applications-for-linux-with-autopackage/One of the most frequent [STRIKEOUT:complaints]requests I receive for ccPublisher and ccLookup is for Linux packages.https://yergler.net/2005/08/10/coworking-thats-a-good-word-for-it/Wed, 10 Aug 2005 08:56:43 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/08/10/coworking-thats-a-good-word-for-it/Mike pointed out that I’m not the only one who doesn’t love working from home — well, the isolation part of it, at least.https://yergler.net/2005/07/22/software-entrepreneurs-and-mental-health/Fri, 22 Jul 2005 10:32:28 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/07/22/software-entrepreneurs-and-mental-health/Drunken Blog is running an interview with Wil Shipley , founder of The Omni Group and more recently Delicious Monster .https://yergler.net/2005/07/22/thats-mr-champion-to-you/Fri, 22 Jul 2005 10:10:29 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/07/22/thats-mr-champion-to-you/So Wednesday night the previously unthinkable happened.https://yergler.net/2005/07/21/wplicense-update/Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:21:49 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/07/21/wplicense-update/So about that “really, really works” comment — maybe only one “really” was in order.https://yergler.net/2005/07/12/wplicense-updated-and-it-really-really-works/Tue, 12 Jul 2005 10:08:27 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/07/12/wplicense-updated-and-it-really-really-works/wpLicense 0.https://yergler.net/2005/07/08/recurring-problems/Fri, 08 Jul 2005 13:10:55 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/07/08/recurring-problems/I wrote a post last December about what I consider the mixed blessing of my work with CC: that while I love what I’m doing, I hate that I do it by myself.https://yergler.net/2005/07/08/beginning-of-the-end/Fri, 08 Jul 2005 10:23:07 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/07/08/beginning-of-the-end/Maybe I’m just feeling cynical today (more than usual, that is), but after reading that a $100M VC fund focusing on RSS has been founded , my first thought was “well, that’s it; RSS is fucked.https://yergler.net/2005/07/08/i-repeat-word-is-not-an-html-editor/Fri, 08 Jul 2005 10:03:17 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/07/08/i-repeat-word-is-not-an-html-editor/Gay Pride in Fort Wayne has been something of an oxymoron since it’s inception.https://yergler.net/2005/07/05/emacs-quote-of-the-day/Tue, 05 Jul 2005 21:24:57 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/07/05/emacs-quote-of-the-day/“Emacs is like a laser guided missile.https://yergler.net/2005/07/05/mit-weblog-survey/Tue, 05 Jul 2005 10:37:53 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/07/05/mit-weblog-survey/Take the MIT Weblog Surveyhttps://yergler.net/2005/07/01/sandra-d-say-it-aint-so/Fri, 01 Jul 2005 10:09:33 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/07/01/sandra-d-say-it-aint-so/SCOTUS Blog has the report; Sandra Day O’Conner is resigning.https://yergler.net/2005/07/01/wplicense-works-for-you/Fri, 01 Jul 2005 07:30:58 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/07/01/wplicense-works-for-you/So last month I announced the release of wpLicense 0.https://yergler.net/2005/06/20/wplicense-update-available/Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:13:13 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/06/20/wplicense-update-available/I’ve just uploaded the 0.https://yergler.net/2005/06/16/staff-talk-slides/Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:08:53 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/06/16/staff-talk-slides/Tuesday I gave two talks at CC in San Francisco.https://yergler.net/2005/06/14/im-lucky/Tue, 14 Jun 2005 22:43:34 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/06/14/im-lucky/I’m in San Francisco this week, working at the CC office.https://yergler.net/2005/06/13/mozcc-11/Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:36:23 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/06/13/mozcc-11/mozCC 1.https://yergler.net/2005/06/10/cc-spotlight-now-available/Fri, 10 Jun 2005 09:23:30 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/06/10/cc-spotlight-now-available/I managed to get the code into shape and have released the first release of the CC Metadata Importer for Spotlight .https://yergler.net/2005/06/04/cc-metadata-on-the-desktop/Sat, 04 Jun 2005 14:57:08 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/06/04/cc-metadata-on-the-desktop/With the arrival of Mac OS X 10.https://yergler.net/2005/05/25/wordpress-cc-a-match-made-in-heaven/Wed, 25 May 2005 13:26:52 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/05/25/wordpress-cc-a-match-made-in-heaven/As promised, you can find wpLicense here .https://yergler.net/2005/05/25/im-pressed/Wed, 25 May 2005 13:09:38 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/05/25/im-pressed/I recently blogged about developing a CherryPy application to drive the non-blog portion of yergler.https://yergler.net/2005/05/18/chasing-rails/Wed, 18 May 2005 09:15:37 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/05/18/chasing-rails/At the risk of adding to the echo chamber, I’d like to point out the React Framework for Zope , a Zope 2.https://yergler.net/2005/05/13/30-days-of-my-life/Fri, 13 May 2005 08:46:01 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/05/13/30-days-of-my-life/Well, it’s not 10 years , but I’m launching a little experiment in introspection and self improvement.https://yergler.net/2005/05/12/distributing-python-applications/Thu, 12 May 2005 13:05:45 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/05/12/distributing-python-applications/As a preface, this post is mostly rambling thoughts on the current state of ccPublisher 2, and some of the challenges yet to be worked through.https://yergler.net/2005/05/10/samson/Tue, 10 May 2005 07:13:43 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/05/10/samson/http://www.https://yergler.net/2005/05/03/cherrypy-silly-name-cool-framework/Tue, 03 May 2005 10:48:26 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/05/03/cherrypy-silly-name-cool-framework/I’ve been playing with CherryPy, one of many Python web frameworks, over the past 12 hours, and have to admit I’m really impressed.https://yergler.net/2005/04/24/accu-friday/Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:37:10 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/04/24/accu-friday/Well we made it back to Indiana last night after about 12 hours of blissfully uneventful travel.https://yergler.net/2005/04/22/accu-keynote-day-2/Fri, 22 Apr 2005 04:51:02 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/04/22/accu-keynote-day-2/This morning’s keynote wasn’t nearly as interesting as Bjarne’s yesterday.https://yergler.net/2005/04/22/ourmedia-sourceforgenet/Fri, 22 Apr 2005 03:49:33 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/04/22/ourmedia-sourceforgenet/I haven’t blogged about this (at all) yet, but I’ve been tangentially involved in the Ourmedia project for the past few months.https://yergler.net/2005/04/21/london-calling/Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:24:46 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/04/21/london-calling/So today was my first day at PyUK, which is being presented as part of the ACCU Conference .https://yergler.net/2005/04/14/a-plan-for-gui-testing/Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:00:39 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/04/14/a-plan-for-gui-testing/During my presentation on Developing Desktop Applications with Python at PyCon last month, one question in particular intrigued me: “How do you handle unit testing for user interfaces.https://yergler.net/2005/04/13/everybody-wants-you/Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:24:59 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/04/13/everybody-wants-you/I’m doing some research on reasons for opposing same-sex marriage.https://yergler.net/2005/04/09/cc-at-notacon/Sat, 09 Apr 2005 08:10:31 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/04/09/cc-at-notacon/Yesterday was the first day of Notacon in Cleveland, OH.https://yergler.net/2005/04/06/i-dont-understand/Wed, 06 Apr 2005 11:33:23 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/04/06/i-dont-understand/So the citizens of Kansas decided that laws aren’t laws until their enshrined in the constitution and voted to ban gay marriage .https://yergler.net/2005/04/05/now-thats-cool/Tue, 05 Apr 2005 15:46:36 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/04/05/now-thats-cool/You may have seen this elsewhere, but Google has integrated satellite imagery in their mapping service .https://yergler.net/2005/04/05/life-news/Tue, 05 Apr 2005 15:35:34 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/04/05/life-news/Last time I visited by physician for my quarterly meds check, I mentioned the fact that I frequently feel fatigued and exhausted by mid-morning.https://yergler.net/2005/03/31/secrets/Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:19:35 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/03/31/secrets/All Things Considered had a story yesterday on PostSecret , a web site which invites people to send in postcards with their deepest secrets, and have them posted online.https://yergler.net/2005/03/30/whats-a-1-between-friends/Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:31:53 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/03/30/whats-a-1-between-friends/OK, that’s embarassing.https://yergler.net/2005/03/28/ccpublisher-11-out/Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:33:34 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/03/28/ccpublisher-11-out/ccPublisher 1.https://yergler.net/2005/03/25/pycon-wrap-up/Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:42:53 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/03/25/pycon-wrap-up/PyCon is over, and I head back to balmy Indiana tomorrow.https://yergler.net/2005/03/25/pycon-day-3-2/Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:10:19 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/03/25/pycon-day-3-2/Today was the final day of PyCon.https://yergler.net/2005/03/24/pycon-notes/Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:49:23 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/03/24/pycon-notes/I just noticed that Ted Leung is once again hosting PyCon SubEthaEdit notes.https://yergler.net/2005/03/24/pycon-day-2-2/Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:44:57 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/03/24/pycon-day-2-2/Today was presentation day, which understandably occupied most of my thinking.https://yergler.net/2005/03/24/best-man-ever/Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:14:46 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/03/24/best-man-ever/|image0|https://yergler.net/2005/03/24/finding-cc/Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:47:59 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/03/24/finding-cc/We break from our continuing PyCon coverage to bring you this bulletin.https://yergler.net/2005/03/24/pycon-day-1-2/Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:49:15 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/03/24/pycon-day-1-2/So the first day of PyCon is over.https://yergler.net/2005/03/23/re-mixing-python/Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:48:51 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/03/23/re-mixing-python/This morning’s keynote at PyCon was given by Jim Huginin, formerly of Jython fame, now of IronPython fame.https://yergler.net/2005/03/23/pycon-2005/Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:48:09 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/03/23/pycon-2005/I’m in Washington, DC for the remainder of the week for PyCon 2005 .https://yergler.net/2005/03/17/quality-stunt-radio/Thu, 17 Mar 2005 13:37:30 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/03/17/quality-stunt-radio/As with most trends, I’ve come to Pod-casting late.https://yergler.net/2005/03/16/desktop-apps-talk-slides-1st-draft/Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:28:01 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/03/16/desktop-apps-talk-slides-1st-draft/So I’m trying to get my slides put together for PyCon.https://yergler.net/2005/03/15/preparing-for-pycon/Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:07:17 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/03/15/preparing-for-pycon/PyCon 2005 is next week at GWU in Washington, DC.https://yergler.net/2005/03/14/front-row-seat-to-hate/Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:52:51 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/03/14/front-row-seat-to-hate/Just a short note, for the record, so to speak.https://yergler.net/2005/03/14/the-palm/Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:25:35 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/03/14/the-palm/|image0|https://yergler.net/2005/03/14/here-fishy-fishy/Mon, 14 Mar 2005 06:58:08 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/03/14/here-fishy-fishy/full size Without a flash, and through a lousy disposable camera view finder, this is one of the better underwater photos from our snorkeling trip.https://yergler.net/2005/03/14/vacations-over-back-to-the-cold/Mon, 14 Mar 2005 06:54:21 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/03/14/vacations-over-back-to-the-cold/Garrett and I spent the past week on vacation in Florida.https://yergler.net/2005/02/23/mozcc-099-available/Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:04:23 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/02/23/mozcc-099-available/So I promised a new release of mozCC to users back in December.https://yergler.net/2005/02/23/mmm-crow/Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:52:45 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/02/23/mmm-crow/OK, I admit it.https://yergler.net/2005/02/22/what-you-want-to-eat/Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:56:22 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/02/22/what-you-want-to-eat/So I’m a little pissed this morning.https://yergler.net/2005/02/21/ccpublisher-105-preview/Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:21:42 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/02/21/ccpublisher-105-preview/First, thanks to everyone who’s tried ccPublisher recently.https://yergler.net/2005/02/08/using-java-with-cc-web-services/Tue, 08 Feb 2005 09:28:01 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/02/08/using-java-with-cc-web-services/We launced the Creative Commons Web Services several months ago.https://yergler.net/2005/01/28/reading-about-writing/Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:55:55 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/01/28/reading-about-writing/I think it was as shocking to me as it was to Garrett when I confessed “I really want to be a writer,” on our second date.https://yergler.net/2005/01/28/python-for-epiphany/Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:48:57 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/01/28/python-for-epiphany/Epiphany is a light-weight browser for Gnome built on the same rendering engine that powers Mozilla .https://yergler.net/2005/01/26/new-hosting-again/Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:05:11 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/01/26/new-hosting-again/Well if you can see this post, the DNS changes have propogated, and yergler.https://yergler.net/2005/01/18/mr-cc-goes-to-washington/Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:35:40 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/01/18/mr-cc-goes-to-washington/It’s time for that annual rite of Python: PyCon .https://yergler.net/2005/01/14/ccvalidator-updated/Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:04:34 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/01/14/ccvalidator-updated/Looking in the archive, I see that I haven’t blogged about ccValidator in over six months.https://yergler.net/2005/01/14/this-means-something/Fri, 14 Jan 2005 08:00:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/01/14/this-means-something/Last night in my Computer Language Design class I tuned out the professor after the first 5 minutes.https://yergler.net/2005/01/12/ccp-10-post-mortem-plus-20-preview/Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:48:10 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/01/12/ccp-10-post-mortem-plus-20-preview/So I spent the last week working from the CC San Francisco offices.https://yergler.net/2005/01/07/best-buy-redeemed/Fri, 07 Jan 2005 17:06:34 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/01/07/best-buy-redeemed/Bryan, Best Buy may have redeemed themselves in your eyes, but they’re still pure evil.https://yergler.net/2005/01/04/lessig-on-npr/Tue, 04 Jan 2005 18:20:45 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/01/04/lessig-on-npr/Lessig appeared on the NPR show The Connection (originating from WBUR in Boston) to discuss the future of Free Culture.https://yergler.net/2005/01/02/happy-new-year-and-once-again-where-have-i-been/Sun, 02 Jan 2005 21:46:35 +0000https://yergler.net/2005/01/02/happy-new-year-and-once-again-where-have-i-been/I rang in the New Year with friends in Milwaukee.https://yergler.net/2004/12/28/ccpublisher-10/Tue, 28 Dec 2004 10:33:09 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/12/28/ccpublisher-10/ccPublisher 1.https://yergler.net/2004/12/27/holiday-wrap-up/Mon, 27 Dec 2004 10:51:54 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/12/27/holiday-wrap-up/I survived the holidays, yet again.https://yergler.net/2004/12/20/people-can-change-sort-of/Mon, 20 Dec 2004 08:14:50 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/12/20/people-can-change-sort-of/My family’s evolving reaction to my sexuality is a continual source of learning and frustration.https://yergler.net/2004/12/15/and-it-really-really-works/Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:47:07 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/12/15/and-it-really-really-works/So I’m sitting here at the car dealership, waiting for Garrett’s car to be serviced, working on my final paper for “Religion and Culture”.https://yergler.net/2004/12/14/irrational-fears/Tue, 14 Dec 2004 08:34:31 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/12/14/irrational-fears/I place way too much importance on what people think about me.https://yergler.net/2004/12/07/simple-pleasures/Tue, 07 Dec 2004 09:04:25 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/12/07/simple-pleasures/My favorite local coffee shop finally added free Wi-Fi.https://yergler.net/2004/12/06/ccpublisher-updated/Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:01:24 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/12/06/ccpublisher-updated/So we’re continuing to press on toward 1.https://yergler.net/2004/12/01/loneliness/Wed, 01 Dec 2004 17:24:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/12/01/loneliness/My birthday was a couple weeks ago.https://yergler.net/2004/12/01/remembering-world-aids-day/Wed, 01 Dec 2004 07:49:01 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/12/01/remembering-world-aids-day/Today is World AIDS Day .https://yergler.net/2004/12/01/bundling-code/Wed, 01 Dec 2004 07:03:41 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/12/01/bundling-code/Mono appeals to me in much the same way as ObectiveC: it seems like I should like it (and have a use for it), but I haven’t identified one yet.https://yergler.net/2004/11/23/whats-new/Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:24:30 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/11/23/whats-new/I just realized that it’s been over two weeks since I last posted, so here’s a quick run down of what I’ve been up to.https://yergler.net/2004/11/08/recording-your-15-minutes-of-fame/Mon, 08 Nov 2004 16:46:16 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/11/08/recording-your-15-minutes-of-fame/I don’t know about anyone else, but Google News has become an important source of news in my daily surfing.https://yergler.net/2004/11/05/publishing-licensed-works/Fri, 05 Nov 2004 11:32:22 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/11/05/publishing-licensed-works/Part of our goal at Creative Commons is to make it easier for people to use our licenses.https://yergler.net/2004/11/04/we-are-so-fucked/Thu, 04 Nov 2004 11:36:35 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/11/04/we-are-so-fucked/I’ d like to provide some pithy, insightful commentary on the election, but frankly, I’m in a state of shock(“23% of my people voted for him?https://yergler.net/2004/11/02/bush-is-so-drunk/Tue, 02 Nov 2004 21:52:27 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/11/02/bush-is-so-drunk/CNN just showed the President watching the returns in the Yellow Room with his family.https://yergler.net/2004/11/01/hail-to-the-chief/Mon, 01 Nov 2004 06:48:03 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/11/01/hail-to-the-chief/BoingBoing has an amusing story about the latest sign of our esteemed chairmen’s growing influence: he has his own meme.https://yergler.net/2004/10/31/the-holiday-already/Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:25:19 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/10/31/the-holiday-already/My 7 loyal readers may remember that the holidays are not my favorite time of year.https://yergler.net/2004/10/27/cc-on-npr/Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:15:18 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/10/27/cc-on-npr/NPR’s Talk of the Nation featured an interview this afternoon with WIRED editor-in-chief Chris Anderson and Le Tigre’s Kathleen Hanna, discussing the WIRED CD.https://yergler.net/2004/10/27/creative-commons-support-in-gnome/Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:59:11 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/10/27/creative-commons-support-in-gnome/After reading about the new Nautilus-Python bindings, I decided I had to try my hand.https://yergler.net/2004/10/26/closures-explained/Tue, 26 Oct 2004 06:58:16 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/10/26/closures-explained/Closures have been tossed about for a while now as the test of coolness for an interpreted language.https://yergler.net/2004/10/22/i-may-be-lazy-but/Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:47:19 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/10/22/i-may-be-lazy-but/You know, Matt’s right ; PayPal really is for the lazy.https://yergler.net/2004/10/19/ten-years-of-openstep/Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:04:45 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/10/19/ten-years-of-openstep/Slashdot reports that today is the 10th anniversary of OpenStep, the NEXT/Sun API that now forms the basis of Apple’s Cocoa and GnuStep .https://yergler.net/2004/10/18/mmm-delicious/Mon, 18 Oct 2004 07:11:37 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/10/18/mmm-delicious/I’ve [STRIKEOUT:bitched about] commented on the inadequacies of “traditional” browser bookmarks several times in the past.https://yergler.net/2004/10/17/python-24-beta-1-available/Sun, 17 Oct 2004 11:07:19 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/10/17/python-24-beta-1-available/Beta 1 of the next version of everyone’s favorite language, Python, is now available.https://yergler.net/2004/10/16/quickfile-lives/Sat, 16 Oct 2004 16:41:39 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/10/16/quickfile-lives/Despite rumors of it’s demise, QuickFile lives on.https://yergler.net/2004/10/15/peaches-cream/Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:25:55 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/10/15/peaches-cream/Dogpoet (whom I have envied from afar for picking up and moving to NYC) makes an interesting comment about his new life in NYC.https://yergler.net/2004/10/14/updating-mozcc/Thu, 14 Oct 2004 07:23:05 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/10/14/updating-mozcc/I recently announced the release of mozCC 0.https://yergler.net/2004/10/14/debate-watch/Thu, 14 Oct 2004 06:56:40 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/10/14/debate-watch/I listened to the Presidential debate last night on NPR , and just like the vice-presidential debate , the question I found most interesting regarded gay marriage.https://yergler.net/2004/10/14/volleyball-update/Thu, 14 Oct 2004 06:42:02 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/10/14/volleyball-update/As I’ve reported before, Garrett and I play volleyball in a city league .https://yergler.net/2004/10/12/anatomy-of-a-sherlock-channel/Tue, 12 Oct 2004 18:17:31 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/10/12/anatomy-of-a-sherlock-channel/With the release of the Creative Commons Sherlock channel , it seems prudent to document some of the development process.https://yergler.net/2004/10/12/get-your-cc-fix-here/Tue, 12 Oct 2004 12:19:45 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/10/12/get-your-cc-fix-here/For all you Mac OS X users who can’t get enough Creative Commons licensed content, your fix has arrived: a CC search plugin for Sherlock .https://yergler.net/2004/10/12/a-cloud-for-every-silver-lining/Tue, 12 Oct 2004 12:10:39 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/10/12/a-cloud-for-every-silver-lining/This weekend was the 16th annual Lesbian and Gay Dinner Dance (whose webpage hasn’t been updated in, well, a while, but you get the gist), a local benefit for the AIDS Task Force.https://yergler.net/2004/10/11/mozcc-update/Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:45:36 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/10/11/mozcc-update/From the mozCC News page:https://yergler.net/2004/10/06/veep-stakes/Wed, 06 Oct 2004 14:51:58 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/10/06/veep-stakes/I watched most of the vice presidential debates last night and the only real suprise to me was the brief exchange over the issue of Gay Marriage.https://yergler.net/2004/10/04/verifying-creative-commons-licenses/Mon, 04 Oct 2004 21:00:28 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/10/04/verifying-creative-commons-licenses/We’ve had command line implementations for quite some time, but today I released our new graphical lookup tool, imaginatively named ccLookup.https://yergler.net/2004/09/30/its-a-start/Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:51:26 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/09/30/its-a-start/I was looking at the release notes for Mozilla 1.https://yergler.net/2004/09/23/how-to-maintain-your-monopoly/Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:15:12 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/09/23/how-to-maintain-your-monopoly/This afternoon I had the strangest experience.https://yergler.net/2004/09/22/what-a-night/Wed, 22 Sep 2004 20:09:34 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/09/22/what-a-night/Last night’s concert was absoluting amazing.https://yergler.net/2004/09/20/rip-sample-mash-share/Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:50:52 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/09/20/rip-sample-mash-share/Check it out, Creative Commons is mentioned in today’s Wall Street Journal.https://yergler.net/2004/09/17/wrapping-static-text-in-wxpython/Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:35:35 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/09/17/wrapping-static-text-in-wxpython/In addition to packing for NYC this morning, I’m working on getting a new release of ccTag out the door.https://yergler.net/2004/09/17/preparations/Fri, 17 Sep 2004 07:35:27 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/09/17/preparations/After being under the weather yesterday, I’m feeling better today.https://yergler.net/2004/09/16/uhh/Thu, 16 Sep 2004 11:26:09 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/09/16/uhh/Browsing around craigslist , and I run into this .https://yergler.net/2004/09/15/follow-your-heart/Wed, 15 Sep 2004 15:08:03 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/09/15/follow-your-heart/Meg has decided to become a chef .https://yergler.net/2004/09/15/peer-to-peer-calendaring/Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:58:29 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/09/15/peer-to-peer-calendaring/Catching up on some infrequent blog reads, I see that OSAF has abandoned the idea of peer to peer calendaring for Chandler.https://yergler.net/2004/09/15/outfoxed-out-licensed/Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:46:56 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/09/15/outfoxed-out-licensed/Lessig reports that Robert Greenwald, Producer/Director of the anti-FOX News polemic (and damned fine film) Outfoxed , has released the original interview footage under a Creative Commons license.https://yergler.net/2004/09/15/giving-rss-the-bird/Wed, 15 Sep 2004 08:09:27 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/09/15/giving-rss-the-bird/I’ve spent the past 24 hours playing with the new releases of Firefox (1.https://yergler.net/2004/09/14/i-take-it-back/Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:28:53 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/09/14/i-take-it-back/I take it back.https://yergler.net/2004/09/14/getting-feedback-from-users/Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:06:49 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/09/14/getting-feedback-from-users/Patrick Roberts , author of the [Python and wxPython-based] news aggregator egoClip has written a generalized exception handling module for wxPython which traps Python exceptions and POSTs details to an arbitrary (well, developer determined) URL.https://yergler.net/2004/09/14/firefox-10-preview-now-available/Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:49:12 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/09/14/firefox-10-preview-now-available/Mozillazine reports that mozilla.https://yergler.net/2004/09/13/diversity-in-action/Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:02:37 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/09/13/diversity-in-action/Last month I had the opportunity to take part in a panel discussion at IPFW where we talked about diversity and issues which resident assistants in the new student housing should be aware of.https://yergler.net/2004/09/10/more-platform-specific-browser-props/Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:13:21 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/09/10/more-platform-specific-browser-props/Last week I mentioned that I had tried Camino again, and that I was shocked at how fast it was.https://yergler.net/2004/09/09/i-am-so-ignorant/Thu, 09 Sep 2004 15:05:03 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/09/09/i-am-so-ignorant/I’m taking “Religion & Culture” this semester, which is turning out to be the most informative and simultaneously humbling class I’ve ever had the privilege to take.https://yergler.net/2004/09/01/wxpython-improvements/Wed, 01 Sep 2004 09:08:35 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/09/01/wxpython-improvements/wxPython has long been my favorite toolkit for developing cross-platform interfaces that actually work.https://yergler.net/2004/08/31/great-im-gretchens-project-now/Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:46:02 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/08/31/great-im-gretchens-project-now/This semester I’m taking Religion and Culture, a 100 level Philosophy class which fills in a required “humanistic thought” elective.https://yergler.net/2004/08/31/camino-081-out-and-boy-is-it-fast/Tue, 31 Aug 2004 07:22:03 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/08/31/camino-081-out-and-boy-is-it-fast/I read that Camino 0.https://yergler.net/2004/08/30/the-name-says-it-all/Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:28:37 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/08/30/the-name-says-it-all/SweetJesusIHateBillOReilly.comhttps://yergler.net/2004/08/30/summer-er-fall-reading-list/Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:14:57 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/08/30/summer-er-fall-reading-list/I go into every summer (actually every “break,” be it summer, christmas, etc) thinking I’m going to catch up on my reading.https://yergler.net/2004/08/30/i-blame-paige-davis/Mon, 30 Aug 2004 08:35:42 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/08/30/i-blame-paige-davis/One of the largely overrated joys of home ownership is home improvement projects.https://yergler.net/2004/08/20/big-changes/Fri, 20 Aug 2004 14:05:32 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/08/20/big-changes/I haven’t blogged much since OSCON.https://yergler.net/2004/08/12/im-paying-them-to-treat-me-this-way/Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:08:45 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/08/12/im-paying-them-to-treat-me-this-way/Garrett and I recently consolidated our health insurance, and as a result I’m switching physicians.https://yergler.net/2004/08/05/the-sweet-taste-of-victory/Thu, 05 Aug 2004 08:51:12 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/08/05/the-sweet-taste-of-victory/Last night our volleyball team, now dubbed the “Big Shots,” played our first matches of the second summer season.https://yergler.net/2004/07/30/maps-as-culture/Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:14:40 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/07/30/maps-as-culture/Today is the last day of OSCON, and the conference will be over at noon today.https://yergler.net/2004/07/29/the-lure-of-the-unknown/Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:13:31 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/07/29/the-lure-of-the-unknown/Warning: I just re-read this post and it’s a little rambling…but I’m too tired to re-write it, so take it for what it’s worth.https://yergler.net/2004/07/29/tracking-mozilla-development/Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:29:10 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/07/29/tracking-mozilla-development/I ran across a few new sites today (mostly via Mozillazine ), which I’ll be adding to my feed list.https://yergler.net/2004/07/29/building-for-windows/Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:20:39 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/07/29/building-for-windows/It’s a little ironic that the best session I attended yesterday was presented by a Microsoft employee, Rob Mensching .https://yergler.net/2004/07/28/oscon-day1-keynotes/Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:18:30 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/07/28/oscon-day1-keynotes/Today is the opening day of the Open Source Conference.https://yergler.net/2004/07/27/we-are-unstoppable/Tue, 27 Jul 2004 18:37:19 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/07/27/we-are-unstoppable/Gay marriage.https://yergler.net/2004/07/27/its-just-buttons-and-stickers-people/Tue, 27 Jul 2004 18:06:31 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/07/27/its-just-buttons-and-stickers-people/Those of us at CC are encouraged to blog our public (or semi-public) appearances, and I so I dutifully posted my attendance at OSCON this week.https://yergler.net/2004/07/27/mozcc-083-released/Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:04:03 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/07/27/mozcc-083-released/(reposted from mozCC news )https://yergler.net/2004/07/27/the-importance-of-dot-slash/Tue, 27 Jul 2004 11:23:15 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/07/27/the-importance-of-dot-slash/Sometimes it’s the little things.https://yergler.net/2004/07/26/hello-portland/Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:30:18 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/07/26/hello-portland/I arrived in Portland on Saturday night and in the 48 hours since have fallen in love with the MAX .https://yergler.net/2004/07/23/irrational-exuberance/Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:57:39 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/07/23/irrational-exuberance/You may have heard that Apple released a new version of the iPod this week.https://yergler.net/2004/07/23/my-week-in-sf/Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:47:19 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/07/23/my-week-in-sf/Today is my last day in the office here at CC.https://yergler.net/2004/07/18/1095-down/Sun, 18 Jul 2004 21:06:41 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/07/18/1095-down/Friday night Garrett and I celebrated our 3rd anniversary.https://yergler.net/2004/07/18/physically-meeting-thats-so-1998/Sun, 18 Jul 2004 20:45:44 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/07/18/physically-meeting-thats-so-1998/I’m in San Francisco for the next week.https://yergler.net/2004/07/16/two-weeks-in-no-looking-back/Fri, 16 Jul 2004 06:39:49 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/07/16/two-weeks-in-no-looking-back/Yesterday marked the two week point since I started working semi-full-time at Creative Commons .https://yergler.net/2004/07/13/cctag-updated/Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:33:04 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/07/13/cctag-updated/I’ve updated ccTag , the graphical interface for tagging audio files with Creative Commons licenses.https://yergler.net/2004/07/12/ccv-150-available/Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:36:54 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/07/12/ccv-150-available/If anyone wants to hack on the validator source code, I’ve just released a new distribution, reflecting the changes now in place at validator.https://yergler.net/2004/07/12/the-road-to-10/Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:54:04 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/07/12/the-road-to-10/Now that I’m actually getting paid to work on mozCC , we’re starting to discuss what’s necessary to call it 1.https://yergler.net/2004/07/12/validatorcreativecommonsorg-now-available/Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:35:43 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/07/12/validatorcreativecommonsorg-now-available/I’m pleased to announce that ccValidator now has a new home.https://yergler.net/2004/07/09/mozcc-updated/Fri, 09 Jul 2004 07:34:41 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/07/09/mozcc-updated/I’ve updated mozCC with some performance enhancements and bug fixes.https://yergler.net/2004/07/02/minor-ccsaver-update/Fri, 02 Jul 2004 14:54:22 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/07/02/minor-ccsaver-update/Just a quick note that I’ve updated ccSaver to version 0.https://yergler.net/2004/07/01/5-reasons-canada-is-paradise/Thu, 01 Jul 2004 07:04:45 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/07/01/5-reasons-canada-is-paradise/Garrett and I spent last weekend in Toronto for Toronto Pride.https://yergler.net/2004/06/29/mozcc-080-now-available/Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:53:20 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/06/29/mozcc-080-now-available/(duplicated from mozCC News )https://yergler.net/2004/06/28/you-must-be-kidding/Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:45:13 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/06/28/you-must-be-kidding/My civil disobediance for today:https://yergler.net/2004/06/24/ccrdf-045-available/Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:44:07 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/06/24/ccrdf-045-available/ccRdf 0.https://yergler.net/2004/06/23/eclipse-wish-list/Wed, 23 Jun 2004 06:47:05 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/06/23/eclipse-wish-list/I have a confession: I’m enamoured with a Java IDE.https://yergler.net/2004/06/22/updated-tagger/Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:15:18 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/06/22/updated-tagger/Just a quick note that I’ve uploaded new builds of ccTag, a set of graphical and command-line tools for embedding Creative Commons license claims in MP3 files.https://yergler.net/2004/06/22/well-that-was-anti-climactic/Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:53:54 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/06/22/well-that-was-anti-climactic/Yesterday afternoon Garrett and I officially became domestic partners, if not in the eyes of the law, then in the eyes of Purdue University , his employer.https://yergler.net/2004/06/21/ccsaver-02-now-available/Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:00:46 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/06/21/ccsaver-02-now-available/I’ve uploaded an update to my Java experiment , ccSaver .https://yergler.net/2004/06/18/boring-software/Fri, 18 Jun 2004 09:25:53 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/06/18/boring-software/Yesterday morning I had a meeting with an accountant.https://yergler.net/2004/06/18/bookmark-syncronization/Fri, 18 Jun 2004 07:05:27 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/06/18/bookmark-syncronization/Andy pointed out that someone developed a Firefox extension which allows you to syncronize your bookmarks across multiple machines/platforms.https://yergler.net/2004/06/16/we-won/Wed, 16 Jun 2004 20:56:14 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/06/16/we-won/Tonite our sand volleyball team, the poorly name “Hot Shots”, won our first game this season.https://yergler.net/2004/06/11/because-i-need-another-t-shirt/Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:09:33 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/06/11/because-i-need-another-t-shirt/I don’t usually like Java.https://yergler.net/2004/06/08/becoming-common/Tue, 08 Jun 2004 11:37:30 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/06/08/becoming-common/In a recent post I alluded to changes that were coming soon.https://yergler.net/2004/06/03/whats-he-doing/Thu, 03 Jun 2004 14:16:58 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/06/03/whats-he-doing/Well the cadet’s got a great ass, but I’m not sure this is the sort of move I want to see our president making.https://yergler.net/2004/05/22/google-induced-myopia/Sat, 22 May 2004 09:34:46 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/05/22/google-induced-myopia/I’ve been working on an application which provides a graphical interface for embedding Creative Commons licenses in audio files, specifically MP3 right now.https://yergler.net/2004/05/20/wordpress-ed/Thu, 20 May 2004 12:20:23 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/05/20/wordpress-ed/As I mentioned earlier , the proliferation of spam comments and the flap over Movable Type’s new licensing scheme motivated me to search out other blogging software.https://yergler.net/2004/05/20/writing-mozilla-extensions/Thu, 20 May 2004 08:43:54 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/05/20/writing-mozilla-extensions/Over the past 6 months, I’ve begun writing two different Mozilla-based extensions.https://yergler.net/2004/05/15/not-a-diva-in-a-good-way/Sat, 15 May 2004 11:46:58 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/05/15/not-a-diva-in-a-good-way/Last night Garrett and I saw Shania Twain in concert at the Memorial Coliseum here in Fort Wayne.https://yergler.net/2004/05/14/comments-spam-and-dollars/Fri, 14 May 2004 14:05:06 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/05/14/comments-spam-and-dollars/So I’ve been busy with work and yard work lately, so not much time to blog.https://yergler.net/2004/05/11/brain-dump/Tue, 11 May 2004 13:46:52 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/05/11/brain-dump/Since the semester ended (straight A’s, thanks for asking), I’ve been busy at work trying to get caught up on various projects.https://yergler.net/2004/05/05/im-not-alone/Wed, 05 May 2004 11:26:04 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/05/05/im-not-alone/In the “funny you should mention it” category, I just came across proof that I’m not the only one who has a problem with bookmarks or who wants to do something about it .https://yergler.net/2004/05/03/conecting-the-dots-or-how-lessig-is-like-chuck-d/Mon, 03 May 2004 17:42:47 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/05/03/conecting-the-dots-or-how-lessig-is-like-chuck-d/I just finished reading Lessig’s Free Culture and am in the middle of Vaidhyanathan’s Copyrights and Copywrongs .https://yergler.net/2004/05/03/its-a-good-news-bad-news-sorta-thing/Mon, 03 May 2004 11:16:39 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/05/03/its-a-good-news-bad-news-sorta-thing/I’ve struggled off and on for the past couple weeks with localizing my two Mozilla extensions, mozCC and QuickFile .https://yergler.net/2004/05/03/finals-week/Mon, 03 May 2004 10:52:44 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/05/03/finals-week/So I’ve made it through to finals week, once again taking 9 hours of classes on top of working full time.https://yergler.net/2004/04/30/in-search-of-better-bookmarks/Fri, 30 Apr 2004 10:05:07 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/04/30/in-search-of-better-bookmarks/Earlier this month while working on a research paper I became frustrated with the tools available to me.https://yergler.net/2004/04/29/license-tagging/Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:32:14 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/04/29/license-tagging/In a previous post I mentioned I’ve been doing some contract work for the Creative Commons lately.https://yergler.net/2004/04/22/learning-from-the-best/Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:07:10 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/04/22/learning-from-the-best/In reference to my tirade on a unified blogging/research/information organization tool, here’s what I currently use, love and wish could be tied together:https://yergler.net/2004/04/19/mozcc-080-preview/Mon, 19 Apr 2004 11:52:38 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/04/19/mozcc-080-preview/I’ve been working on a much-need update to mozCC , and wanted to give users a preview of what I’m working on.https://yergler.net/2004/04/19/a-clarification-regarding-java/Mon, 19 Apr 2004 09:25:28 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/04/19/a-clarification-regarding-java/In a previous post I wrote about how RMS’s essay on writing free software for Java struck a chord with me.https://yergler.net/2004/04/19/hello-brothers-goodbye-liver/Mon, 19 Apr 2004 09:12:59 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/04/19/hello-brothers-goodbye-liver/I spent the majority of the weekend in Lafayette with my fraternity brothers.https://yergler.net/2004/04/16/random-life-notes/Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:56:06 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/04/16/random-life-notes/Just a couple of things I’ve been thinking about lately that haven’t been serious enough to warrant their own entry.https://yergler.net/2004/04/13/java-and-mac-os-x-not-exactly-apples-and-er-oranges/Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:07:26 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/04/13/java-and-mac-os-x-not-exactly-apples-and-er-oranges/In response to the ever-growing debate about Java and whether it should be open sourced, Newsforge is running a pair of “point, counter point” articles.https://yergler.net/2004/04/12/better_blogging_or_its_more_than_just_a_blog_virginia/Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:28:06 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/04/12/better_blogging_or_its_more_than_just_a_blog_virginia/This morning I finally found (took?https://yergler.net/2004/04/12/blogging-is-hard/Mon, 12 Apr 2004 11:50:04 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/04/12/blogging-is-hard/Blogging is hard, but it shouldn’t be.https://yergler.net/2004/04/07/wx-rocks/Wed, 07 Apr 2004 16:49:08 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/04/07/wx-rocks/In a previous life, I wrote a proprietary application for a certain wire die manufacturer .https://yergler.net/2004/04/06/development-update/Tue, 06 Apr 2004 10:19:29 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/04/06/development-update/As I mentioned before , I’ve been hacking on an update of ccValidator.https://yergler.net/2004/04/02/first-draft-rdfextract/Fri, 02 Apr 2004 09:26:34 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/04/02/first-draft-rdfextract/I’ve just posted the first draft of rdfExtract , and am actively looking for comments and suggestions.https://yergler.net/2004/03/30/ccvalidator-refactoring/Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:00:53 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/03/30/ccvalidator-refactoring/It’s been pointed out that ccValidator only supports RDF embedded in an HTML comment, and not any of the other officially sanctioned ways .https://yergler.net/2004/03/27/pycon-2004-post-mortem/Sat, 27 Mar 2004 14:11:13 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/03/27/pycon-2004-post-mortem/We made it back to Fort Wayne last night around 9:30PM.https://yergler.net/2004/03/26/pycon-day-3-wrap-up/Fri, 26 Mar 2004 14:30:20 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/03/26/pycon-day-3-wrap-up/Bruce Eckel’s keynote this morning was excellent.https://yergler.net/2004/03/26/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-conference/Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:31:40 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/03/26/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-conference/This morning I was walking from the hotel to the conference when the weirdest thing happened to me: I was cruised .https://yergler.net/2004/03/26/pycon-day-3/Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:10:46 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/03/26/pycon-day-3/This morning is the start of PyCon day 3.https://yergler.net/2004/03/25/pycon-day-2/Thu, 25 Mar 2004 17:09:54 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/03/25/pycon-day-2/Today is the second day of PyCon , and while I have enjoyed the talks I’ve attended, I’ll admit that a)I was a little preoccupied with my own presentation and b)I’m tired.https://yergler.net/2004/03/25/pycon-bofs/Thu, 25 Mar 2004 08:49:24 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/03/25/pycon-bofs/Last night I engaged in a short of BOF marathon.https://yergler.net/2004/03/24/pycon-day-1/Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:57:53 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/03/24/pycon-day-1/Three-quarters of the way through the first day of the PyCon sessions, it’s already been an exciting and enlightening experience.https://yergler.net/2004/03/23/zope-3-sprint-day-3/Tue, 23 Mar 2004 21:10:31 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/03/23/zope-3-sprint-day-3/Today was the final day of the Zope 3 sprint, and overall I’d call it a success.https://yergler.net/2004/03/23/zope-3-sprint-day-2/Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:12:52 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/03/23/zope-3-sprint-day-2/Yesterday’s sprinting wasn’t quite a visceraly satisfying as the previous two days, but progress was still made.https://yergler.net/2004/03/22/zope-3-sprint-day-1/Mon, 22 Mar 2004 09:28:01 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/03/22/zope-3-sprint-day-1/Yesterday was a marathon session, with Stephan and I hacking the browser:tool from 10AM until nearly 8PM.https://yergler.net/2004/03/21/zope-3-sprint-day-0/Sun, 21 Mar 2004 09:22:26 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/03/21/zope-3-sprint-day-0/Yesterday was the first day of the Zope 3 Sprint at PyCon 2004 .https://yergler.net/2004/03/20/hello-dc/Sat, 20 Mar 2004 09:16:44 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/03/20/hello-dc/Well we made it to DC with minimal trouble.https://yergler.net/2004/03/15/woodshop-101/Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:49:24 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/03/15/woodshop-101/After my rousing (well, passable) success with the picture frame project, I’d have been happy to let the tools gather dust in the basement.https://yergler.net/2004/03/15/creating-web-based-classroom-tools-with-zope/Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:19:58 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/03/15/creating-web-based-classroom-tools-with-zope/As previously mentioned, my colleague Vern and I will be presenting at PyCon in Washington, DC next week.https://yergler.net/2004/03/09/more-python-zope-and-pycon/Tue, 09 Mar 2004 13:32:21 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/03/09/more-python-zope-and-pycon/So things on the MozCC/QuickFile/cc-oasis front will be quiet for a while as I’m gearing up for PyCon.https://yergler.net/2004/03/04/shameless-self-promotion/Thu, 04 Mar 2004 08:58:18 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/03/04/shameless-self-promotion/As I mentioned before, I’ll be presenting this year at PyCon in Washington, DC.https://yergler.net/2004/03/02/i-spoke-too-soon/Tue, 02 Mar 2004 09:14:54 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/03/02/i-spoke-too-soon/Not two hours after announcing QuickFile 0.https://yergler.net/2004/03/01/embedding-the-commons/Mon, 01 Mar 2004 10:25:57 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/03/01/embedding-the-commons/I’ve put up a new project page, cc-oasis , to document some new CC work I’ve been doing.https://yergler.net/2004/03/01/quickfile-002-now-available/Mon, 01 Mar 2004 09:52:10 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/03/01/quickfile-002-now-available/I’ve just updated the QuickFile XPI with a handful of bug fixes and improvements.https://yergler.net/2004/02/25/the-fruits-of-my-labor/Wed, 25 Feb 2004 08:14:01 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/02/25/the-fruits-of-my-labor/|image0| Weeks after purchasing and installing the wood working equipment in my basement (which was generally dubbed “out of character” to say the least), I have something to show for.https://yergler.net/2004/02/20/ccvalidator-131-update-now-available/Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:05:32 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/02/20/ccvalidator-131-update-now-available/As promised yesterday, I’ve updated ccValidator with a minor update.https://yergler.net/2004/02/19/a-few-quick-notes/Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:05:27 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/02/19/a-few-quick-notes/OK, I’m sort of busy with school right now, but I’ve had some questions and wanted to post a brief update.https://yergler.net/2004/02/12/mozcc-077-now-available/Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:37:39 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/02/12/mozcc-077-now-available/The title says it all; see the release announcement here and find out how to install here .https://yergler.net/2004/02/10/mozcc-on-slashdot/Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:59:47 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/02/10/mozcc-on-slashdot/I guess my 15 minutes are here.https://yergler.net/2004/02/06/half-measures-half-truths/Fri, 06 Feb 2004 13:56:39 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/02/06/half-measures-half-truths/My birthday falls about 45 days before New Year’s Eve, and as such I tend to spend the last month-point-five thinking about resolutions.https://yergler.net/2004/02/04/publishing-with-pyblosxom/Wed, 04 Feb 2004 13:34:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/02/04/publishing-with-pyblosxom/I’ve now managed to convert the majority of yergler.https://yergler.net/2004/02/03/pycon-2004/Tue, 03 Feb 2004 13:11:37 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/02/03/pycon-2004/PyCon 2004 is coming March 24 – 26, 2004.https://yergler.net/2004/02/02/pyblosxom-blosxom-movabletype/Mon, 02 Feb 2004 09:04:36 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/02/02/pyblosxom-blosxom-movabletype/I’ve been working on find/developing/adapting a content management solution for my employer, and along the way decided to try out Blosxom .https://yergler.net/2004/02/02/happy-groundhog-day/Mon, 02 Feb 2004 08:07:56 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/02/02/happy-groundhog-day/…and happy birthday, Ben Purkis; wherever you are.https://yergler.net/2004/01/26/mozcc-075-out/Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:55:24 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/01/26/mozcc-075-out/Much later than I initially anticipated, mozCC 0.https://yergler.net/2004/01/23/and-they-say-were-bad-for-marriage/Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:52:56 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/01/23/and-they-say-were-bad-for-marriage/So the American Family Association ran a poll on gay marriage last month, asking surfers whether they support gay marriage, support gay marriage but prefer the phrase “civil union” or oppose gay marriage.https://yergler.net/2004/01/21/making-music/Wed, 21 Jan 2004 11:47:17 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/01/21/making-music/Last weekend I finally upgraded my iMac to Mac OS X 10.https://yergler.net/2004/01/20/cc-rdf-in-javascript/Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:43:42 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/01/20/cc-rdf-in-javascript/It’s taking much longer than I’d like, but I’m slowly making progress on a new release of mozCC .https://yergler.net/2004/01/19/of-distros-and-appearances/Mon, 19 Jan 2004 08:53:18 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/01/19/of-distros-and-appearances/As I’ve said before, I previously used Linux both at home and at work, 100% of the time.https://yergler.net/2004/01/15/cascading-problems/Thu, 15 Jan 2004 09:29:34 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/01/15/cascading-problems/After a 3 week hiatus I’ve begun working on mozCC bugs again.https://yergler.net/2004/01/08/word-processing-follow-up/Thu, 08 Jan 2004 13:43:14 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/01/08/word-processing-follow-up/After writing my complaint about Word and word processing on Mac OS X, I decided to do “yet another” search for something to quell my angst.https://yergler.net/2004/01/06/whats-so-great-about-word/Tue, 06 Jan 2004 09:50:08 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/01/06/whats-so-great-about-word/Windows drives me nuts.https://yergler.net/2004/01/05/whats-going-on/Mon, 05 Jan 2004 08:27:03 +0000https://yergler.net/2004/01/05/whats-going-on/Today is my first day back after a two week winter break from work and school.https://yergler.net/2003/12/22/ccrdf-040/Mon, 22 Dec 2003 21:45:07 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/12/22/ccrdf-040/ccRdf is now available for download .https://yergler.net/2003/12/22/ccvalidator-13-now-available/Mon, 22 Dec 2003 20:39:29 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/12/22/ccvalidator-13-now-available/ccValidator 1.https://yergler.net/2003/12/18/those-people/Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:06:41 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/12/18/those-people/This week, under the stress of finals and the holidays, I finally cracked.https://yergler.net/2003/12/17/im-glad-thats-over/Wed, 17 Dec 2003 13:10:54 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/12/17/im-glad-thats-over/I just finished my final paper for Intermediate Expository Writing.https://yergler.net/2003/12/16/grokking-the-gpl/Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:30:41 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/12/16/grokking-the-gpl/Groklaw has published an excellent explanation of just what the GPL is and is not.https://yergler.net/2003/12/16/atomic-fun/Tue, 16 Dec 2003 08:37:33 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/12/16/atomic-fun/So the Atom 0.https://yergler.net/2003/12/15/validator-updated-testers-needed/Mon, 15 Dec 2003 11:28:10 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/12/15/validator-updated-testers-needed/This morning I finished an update to ccValidator .https://yergler.net/2003/12/14/filing-mail-in-thunderbird/Sun, 14 Dec 2003 22:38:15 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/12/14/filing-mail-in-thunderbird/I read about Mark Shuttleworth’s Open Source bounties on Mozillazine a couple weeks ago.https://yergler.net/2003/12/12/its-just-that-easy/Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:32:21 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/12/12/its-just-that-easy/I’ve been working on a new extension for Mozilla, and spent the better part of yesterday afternoon beating my head against a problem (as usual).https://yergler.net/2003/12/11/a-few-musical-notes/Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:07:42 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/12/11/a-few-musical-notes/I’ve been busy with papers and exams for school the past few days, but am happy that I turned in my final research paper last night.https://yergler.net/2003/12/09/mozcc-070-released/Tue, 09 Dec 2003 11:03:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/12/09/mozcc-070-released/OK, mozCC 0.https://yergler.net/2003/12/08/eating-my-own-dogfood/Mon, 08 Dec 2003 09:50:53 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/12/08/eating-my-own-dogfood/At work my workstation runs Gentoo Linux .https://yergler.net/2003/12/05/ccrdf-030-available/Fri, 05 Dec 2003 07:14:10 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/12/05/ccrdf-030-available/After some great debate and discussion with Mike and Ben, ccRdf 0.https://yergler.net/2003/12/04/wordcited-093-available/Thu, 04 Dec 2003 13:14:11 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/12/04/wordcited-093-available/While of questionable interest to many of you, I’m still pleased to announce that the first public release of WordCited has made it out the door.https://yergler.net/2003/12/03/what-the-hell/Wed, 03 Dec 2003 07:56:38 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/12/03/what-the-hell/Ok, I love MIT’s OpenCourseware initiative.https://yergler.net/2003/12/02/cclicense-is-now-ccrdf/Tue, 02 Dec 2003 15:14:03 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/12/02/cclicense-is-now-ccrdf/I’m very happy to announce that ccLicense.https://yergler.net/2003/12/02/cool-things-i-dont-have-a-use-for/Tue, 02 Dec 2003 08:41:04 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/12/02/cool-things-i-dont-have-a-use-for/While doing my morning surfing I ran into two very cool items which I don’t presently have a use for.https://yergler.net/2003/12/01/back-at-it/Mon, 01 Dec 2003 18:29:22 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/12/01/back-at-it/So I survived the holidays and am back to work today.https://yergler.net/2003/11/26/ahh-the-holidays/Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:39:16 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/11/26/ahh-the-holidays/I really detest the holidays.https://yergler.net/2003/11/23/im-too-old-for-this/Sun, 23 Nov 2003 15:50:10 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/11/23/im-too-old-for-this/This weekend my chapter of Delta Lambda Phi held initiation in West Lafayette .https://yergler.net/2003/11/21/im-thankful-its-over/Fri, 21 Nov 2003 16:45:08 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/11/21/im-thankful-its-over/Working at your high school alma mater gives you some unique perspective.https://yergler.net/2003/11/21/the-law-of-averages-20/Fri, 21 Nov 2003 16:25:34 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/11/21/the-law-of-averages-20/After doing the design for the mozCC website , I decided that The Law of Averages needed an overhaul, too.https://yergler.net/2003/11/20/mozcc-cvs-moved/Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:10:17 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/11/20/mozcc-cvs-moved/I’ve finished moving the CVS repository from my server to mozCC.https://yergler.net/2003/11/19/bug-tracking-and-more-for-mozcc/Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:00:57 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/11/19/bug-tracking-and-more-for-mozcc/While I was gone there were a handful of bug reports for mozCC (that I still haven’t gotten to).https://yergler.net/2003/11/18/back-in-indiana/Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:03:55 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/11/18/back-in-indiana/I made it back to Indiana last night after an absolutely hellish day of travel.https://yergler.net/2003/11/13/bound-for-the-keys/Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:35:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/11/13/bound-for-the-keys/I had hoped to fix some bugs relating to the new Mozilla Firebird Pinstripe theme in mozCC tonite, but it was not to be.https://yergler.net/2003/11/13/mozcc-for-everyone/Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:29:40 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/11/13/mozcc-for-everyone/Since announcing mozCC on Freshmeat yesterday the response has been amazing.https://yergler.net/2003/11/12/mozcc-06-the-integration-release/Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:08:14 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/11/12/mozcc-06-the-integration-release/A little gift from me to you, mozCC 0.https://yergler.net/2003/11/11/wishes-do-come-true/Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:22:48 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/11/11/wishes-do-come-true/Previously I wrote about my Mozilla wishlist .https://yergler.net/2003/11/11/mozcc-053-update/Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:15:27 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/11/11/mozcc-053-update/I’ve released another incremental upgrade to mozCC.https://yergler.net/2003/11/10/my-mozilla-wishlist/Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:54:07 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/11/10/my-mozilla-wishlist/I’m working on some fixes/improvments to mozCC, and I’ve realized that there’s a few things that would make Mozilla development a lot easier.https://yergler.net/2003/11/10/mozcc-051-update/Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:27:12 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/11/10/mozcc-051-update/I’ve built a new XPI for MozCC which incorporates fixes for some of the bugs reported to me last week.https://yergler.net/2003/11/10/what-a-weekend/Mon, 10 Nov 2003 08:50:38 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/11/10/what-a-weekend/I never thought I’d say this, but I’m almost glad it’s Monday.https://yergler.net/2003/11/06/mozcc-05-now-available/Thu, 06 Nov 2003 14:53:29 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/11/06/mozcc-05-now-available/Testers, start your engines.https://yergler.net/2003/11/06/the-30-second-commons/Thu, 06 Nov 2003 09:10:05 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/11/06/the-30-second-commons/With my recent work on ccValidator and mozCC , I’ve been faced with the challenge of communicating about my work to lay-people (my parents, siblings, therapist, partner, etc).https://yergler.net/2003/11/06/guggenheim-museum/Thu, 06 Nov 2003 08:21:05 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/11/06/guggenheim-museum/Simply amazing.https://yergler.net/2003/11/06/ccv-results-are-ugly/Thu, 06 Nov 2003 07:13:48 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/11/06/ccv-results-are-ugly/I was on campus last night and checked my e-mail between classes.https://yergler.net/2003/11/05/a-mostly-functional-mozcc/Wed, 05 Nov 2003 13:50:03 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/11/05/a-mostly-functional-mozcc/Really, I’m as amazed as anyone else.https://yergler.net/2003/11/04/mozcc-progress-report/Tue, 04 Nov 2003 15:14:33 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/11/04/mozcc-progress-report/So, a status report on mozCC.https://yergler.net/2003/11/03/zconfig-20-released/Mon, 03 Nov 2003 09:30:43 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/11/03/zconfig-20-released/I just saw on the Python Daily URL that ZConfig 2.https://yergler.net/2003/11/03/pixelsyerglernet/Mon, 03 Nov 2003 09:20:23 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/11/03/pixelsyerglernet/In December, 2001 I bought my first digital camera, a Canon Digital Elph.https://yergler.net/2003/10/29/wordcited-coming-real-soon-now/Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:54:47 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/10/29/wordcited-coming-real-soon-now/Every now and then I’m forced (or agree) to return to the world of Windows only development.https://yergler.net/2003/10/29/the-battle-continues/Wed, 29 Oct 2003 11:02:06 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/10/29/the-battle-continues/So the battle to create a Gecko extension continues.https://yergler.net/2003/10/27/the-gecko-wars-continued/Mon, 27 Oct 2003 14:51:22 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/10/27/the-gecko-wars-continued/In an object lesson on why OpenSource is important, I finally figured out how to listen for navigation events in a Mozilla Firebird extension.https://yergler.net/2003/10/27/unicode-updates-and-cvs/Mon, 27 Oct 2003 10:46:53 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/10/27/unicode-updates-and-cvs/ccValidator 1.https://yergler.net/2003/10/26/a-lovely-lazy-weekend/Sun, 26 Oct 2003 22:18:04 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/10/26/a-lovely-lazy-weekend/Well it’s Sunday evening, and I just realized what a lovely weekend it was.https://yergler.net/2003/10/26/grokking-the-lizard/Sun, 26 Oct 2003 13:45:11 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/10/26/grokking-the-lizard/So I spent most of my morning on Friday attempting to grok the state of Mozilla/Firebird/Gecko plugin development.https://yergler.net/2003/10/24/magnets-are-cool-or-yet-another-validator-update/Fri, 24 Oct 2003 18:43:34 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/10/24/magnets-are-cool-or-yet-another-validator-update/I’ve been reading the Magnet URI Spec , and the idea behind it’s pretty cool.https://yergler.net/2003/10/24/thoughts-on-the-future-of-cclicensepy/Fri, 24 Oct 2003 10:28:26 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/10/24/thoughts-on-the-future-of-cclicensepy/With the Validator up and running, I’ve been thinking more about cclicense.https://yergler.net/2003/10/24/sourcecode-available/Fri, 24 Oct 2003 10:03:39 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/10/24/sourcecode-available/Just a quick note that you can now download the sourcecode for the ccValidator from here .https://yergler.net/2003/10/23/validator-improvments/Thu, 23 Oct 2003 16:40:18 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/10/23/validator-improvments/I’ve just moved an improved license validator into place .https://yergler.net/2003/10/22/proposed-changes-to-the-validator/Wed, 22 Oct 2003 09:10:35 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/10/22/proposed-changes-to-the-validator/Thanks to the feedback I’ve received about the Creative Commons license validator, I now have a list of improvements and changes to implement.https://yergler.net/2003/10/22/oreilly-emerging-technology-conference/Wed, 22 Oct 2003 09:05:05 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/10/22/oreilly-emerging-technology-conference/Registration just opened for the Emerging Technology Conference , happening February 9-12, 2004 in San Diego.https://yergler.net/2003/10/20/postal-service-give-up/Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:29:51 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/10/20/postal-service-give-up/I purchased |cover|“Give Up” by The Postal Service after seeing Meg mention it on her blog .https://yergler.net/2003/10/20/xml-generation-made-easy/Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:07:40 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/10/20/xml-generation-made-easy/Stoa is a project I work on for my day job; a Zope-based Student Information System we use at the school for everthing from scheduling and attendance to posting online content for courses.https://yergler.net/2003/10/17/what-should-i-do-with-my-life/Fri, 17 Oct 2003 23:18:15 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/10/17/what-should-i-do-with-my-life/|cover| What Should I Do With My Life?https://yergler.net/2003/10/17/yet-another-ccvalidator-update/Fri, 17 Oct 2003 18:00:49 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/10/17/yet-another-ccvalidator-update/It seems like all I’m writing about here lately is ccValidator and ccLicense, but I suppose that’s OK.https://yergler.net/2003/10/17/ccvalidator-fixes/Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:17:14 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/10/17/ccvalidator-fixes/Based on yesterday’s excellent feedback, I’ve updated the ccValidator code to it’s new, improved version.https://yergler.net/2003/10/17/updated-cclicensepy-available/Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:13:01 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/10/17/updated-cclicensepy-available/I’ve just posted an updated version of ccLicense.https://yergler.net/2003/10/16/why-didnt-i-think-of-that-sooner/Thu, 16 Oct 2003 15:42:36 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/10/16/why-didnt-i-think-of-that-sooner/Shortly after announcing the validator to the cc-metadata list this morning, I had my first bug report.https://yergler.net/2003/10/16/cclicensepy-01/Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:37:40 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/10/16/cclicensepy-01/As part of my effort to complete the Creative Commons web validation service, I inadvertently addressed another of their challenges: creating a language (in this case Python, of course) API for manipulating licenses.https://yergler.net/2003/10/15/creative-commons-license-validator/Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:00:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/10/15/creative-commons-license-validator/Well, what good is a weekend not spent coding?https://yergler.net/2003/10/14/new-hosting/Tue, 14 Oct 2003 23:02:00 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/10/14/new-hosting/So if you’re seeing this blog post, the DNS records have sufficiently propogated, and you’re viewing yergler.https://yergler.net/2003/10/14/ahhh-now-i-understand/Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:36:17 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/10/14/ahhh-now-i-understand/Descriptors, like meta-classes, are a feature of Python that I didn’t really understand up until now.https://yergler.net/2003/10/11/creative-commons-technology-challenge/Sat, 11 Oct 2003 10:57:05 +0000https://yergler.net/2003/10/11/creative-commons-technology-challenge/The Creative Commons posted some “technology challenges” yesterday.https://yergler.net/archive/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://yergler.net/archive/This page contains an archive of all posts.