{"id":95,"date":"2008-04-09T00:44:39","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T06:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/09\/the-canadian-invasion-and-more\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T00:44:39","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T06:44:39","slug":"the-canadian-invasion-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/09\/the-canadian-invasion-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"The Canadian Invasion .. and MORE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>The only bit I remember from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dougma.com\/archives\/79\">that conversation<\/a> is all the stuff about Canadian global domination.\u00c2\u00a0 Let me tell you, if Mike Fletcher has his way, we&#8217;re doomed!\u00c2\u00a0 (Maybe we&#8217;re doomed either way, but be sure your passport is ready when we have to head north!)<\/li>\n<li>I remember peaking into the pycon-dev room at one point and Doug was giving a lecture on menu structures in websites.\u00c2\u00a0 He said the pycon navigation was stored completely independently of all the modules used by pycon.\u00c2\u00a0 I think that&#8217;s great.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been thinking about it ever since.<\/li>\n<li>I do most all my dev at home on my linux system.\u00c2\u00a0 My laptop last year was loaded with XP and I found it painful to do work on at pycon.\u00c2\u00a0 So this year, the day before pycon, I loaded it up with Ubuntu.\u00c2\u00a0 Which was a mistake.\u00c2\u00a0 It *sort* of worked, in a kind of the network didn&#8217;t exactly always work and the video driver didn&#8217;t always work .. and then <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/349\/\">it got worse<\/a> .. but I won&#8217;t name names \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<li>Which brings me to two happier points, which are points 5 and 6 in this list.<\/li>\n<li>Sean was quite swell and set me up a personal hard-line during the sprints when I needed to get some work done :)\u00c2\u00a0 Yay!<\/li>\n<li>I was told about PyPE, which is a nifty <a href=\"http:\/\/pype.sourceforge.net\/index.shtml\">python editor<\/a> for windows :)\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m having to do some win32 dev lately (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/05\/did-someone-say-galcon-in-the-browser\/\">previous post<\/a>), so having that on hand is great!\u00c2\u00a0 I like it.\u00c2\u00a0 I was able to do about 5 hours of dev on it this evening, and I think the main complaint I had was I was using a laptop keyboard.\u00c2\u00a0 If you like kate, this is the editor for you.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only bit I remember from that conversation is all the stuff about Canadian global domination.\u00c2\u00a0 Let me tell you, if Mike Fletcher has his way, we&#8217;re doomed!\u00c2\u00a0 (Maybe we&#8217;re doomed either way, but be sure your passport is ready when we have to head north!) I remember peaking into the pycon-dev room at one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,2,12],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crazy","category-development","category-python","category-sysadmin","tag-pycon2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}