9. Gittip is the future

   Heard of Gittip? If not, you should know: it has a lot of people (including me) excited about the potential to make a living doing what they love. From the Gittip blog [1]:

   Gittip is a system for funding people who build free culture. The core is small weekly gifts ...

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10. Yes, this blog is now powered by Pelican

    As an open source "Plone guy", I'm always prepared to defend and explain my choice to not use Plone for blogging. A couple years ago, I started using Wordpress in order to learn its feature set. I enjoyed my time with it, but after moving to wordpress.com for ...

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11. Building Windows Installers In The Cloud

    With pythonpackages.com, I want to solve real problems for people today. So here's a proof of concept for building Windows installers quickly and easily "in the cloud" (i.e. without a Windows machine local). This article is mostly about the back end, as the front end is already ...

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12. pythonpackages.com beta launch

    After 9 months of development, pythonpackages.com has grand-ceremoniously flipped the switch from alpha to beta. Here is an overview of the beta release features.

    Killer GitHub integration

    The workflow you may now enjoy is:

    • Login with your GitHub account
    • Select a repository that contains a Python package

    One-click release ...

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13. Adam Yauch has passed

    And why it matters to tech people, like me

    (I hope my tech colleagues will indulge my thoughts on the recent passing of Beastie Boy Adam Yauch.)

    TL;DR: I <3 the Beastie Boys and will miss Adam Yauch; and I suspect many others in the tech world do, and ...

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14. New Year's Python Meme 2011

    My response to http://blog.ziade.org/2011/12/20/new-year039s-python-meme-2011/.

    It was fun answering in 2009, so I thought I'd play again.

    What’s the coolest Python application, framework or library you have discovered in 2011?

    Pyramid. In early 2011 I released vanity, which later became pythonpackages.com ...

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15. Vagrant, Puppet and Mozilla, oh my!

    Warning: This post is only loosely Python related and not at all Plone related, but I thought folks might enjoy hearing about Vagrant and Puppet because these tools may help you do your Plone and Python jobs better.

    For the past couple weeks I've been working on creating a ...

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