Because the "Python 3 Patterns and Idioms" book project is distributed, I created a blog for everyone to give scrum-like reports. Did I just invent something?

I think the Smalltalk model was way ahead of its time. My vision is to move completely away from the idea of different kinds of storage.

Of course I'm asking the wrong crowd here -- you're watching the weblog. Still, you might have some ideas.

While I was in Brazil, I was interviewed for a Brazillian technical magazine, and the issue was just published.

You know the bad feeling when you start looking at a Java code base that's just wrong. Proving it is something else again. Here's one way to show it.

If Python's what I want to do, I should write that book about it. Herein I muse about how to create a book relying largely on community input and help.

The response to arguments about self in Python is "explicit is better than implicit." In a discussion at Pycon Brazil, I realized that we do need self in the body of a method, but being forced to place it in the argument list is redundant. I'm not actually expecting it to change, but I want to try to establish that this isn't a dumb argument.

Brazilians are very warm and friendly, and PyCon Brazil in Rio de Janeiro had over 300 very enthusiastic and committed Python programmers.

I will be giving a 3-day Java & Python Patterns workshop in Sao Paulo September 15-17, and then the keynote at the PyConBrasil in Rio de Janeiro September 19.

James Ward and I have been working on an introductory Flex book for programmers, which we'll release as soon as we get the legal issues ironed out.

A non-Web-2.0 (TM O'Reilly, Inc.) way of looking at it.

Why does a company full of smart people make stupid decisions? How do we keep it from happening?

If so, this is a call to action.

Microsoft announced a 300 million marketing campaign to stand up to the competitors and critics of Vista. They're going to make Vista good by saying it's good.

The video and slides from last December in Belgium.