Over the years, I’ve done a variety of reviews. I’ve also consumed a lot more books, music, movies and websites than I’ve managed to review or mention here. I’ve decided that I’d really like to highlight some of the great things that I’ve found along the way. Marketing Purple Cow by Seth Godin This is one of...

Over the years, I’ve done a variety of reviews. I’ve also consumed a lot more books, music, movies and websites than I’ve managed to review or mention here. I’ve decided that I’d really like to highlight some of the great things that I’ve found along the way. Marketing Purple Cow by Seth Godin This is one of...

Ian Landsman is right on in 4 Rules for the Practical Entrepreneur. This is a must-read for anyone considering making the jump to being a software product freelancer. Falling into Ian’s “visionary” category is fine as long as you know what you’re getting into. With Zesty News, I broke one of Ian’s rules: it’s...

Ian Landsman is right on in 4 Rules for the Practical Entrepreneur. This is a must-read for anyone considering making the jump to being a software product freelancer. Falling into Ian’s “visionary” category is fine as long as you know what you’re getting into. With Zesty News, I broke one of Ian’s rules: it’s...

Anders Pearson just announced Tasty, a REST tagging engine designed to be integrated with other apps. Anders developed Tasty with TurboGears.

Anders Pearson just announced Tasty, a REST tagging engine designed to be integrated with other apps. Anders developed Tasty with TurboGears.

This has probably been all over the blogs already, but congrats to the folks of TextDrive who are now part of Joyent. Joyent has some really cool looking offerings and TextDrive expands what they can do in some interesting dimensions.

This has probably been all over the blogs already, but congrats to the folks of TextDrive who are now part of Joyent. Joyent has some really cool looking offerings and TextDrive expands what they can do in some interesting dimensions.

Oracle has introduced a free version of their database called Oracle 10g Express Edition (XE). One interesting thing about this release is that Oracle has explicitly stated that people can redistribute this database. The database has built in limitations designed to keep it targeted at only lowish-end apps, so it shouldn’t cannibalize the...

Oracle has introduced a free version of their database called Oracle 10g Express Edition (XE). One interesting thing about this release is that Oracle has explicitly stated that people can redistribute this database. The database has built in limitations designed to keep it targeted at only lowish-end apps, so it shouldn’t cannibalize the...

Bob Ippolito has just released MochiKit 1.0! Congrats, Bob! As he says on his blog, MochiKit was 1.0 quality from the first release, and there’s been a lot of great work on the project since then. MochiKit 1.0 will be included in TurboGears 0.9.

Bob Ippolito has just released MochiKit 1.0! Congrats, Bob! As he says on his blog, MochiKit was 1.0 quality from the first release, and there’s been a lot of great work on the project since then. MochiKit 1.0 will be included in TurboGears 0.9.

A hearty congratulations to Ian Landsman for shipping HelpSpot 1.0. I feel a kinship with Ian because he started UserScape about the same time that I started Blazing Things. He and I have been exchanging email periodically all year, and he’s a great guy who knows his stuff. Shipping a beta is exciting, but shipping [...]

A hearty congratulations to Ian Landsman for shipping HelpSpot 1.0. I feel a kinship with Ian because he started UserScape about the same time that I started Blazing Things. He and I have been exchanging email periodically all year, and he’s a great guy who knows his stuff. Shipping a beta is exciting, but shipping [...]

I don’t have any statistics to share on this, but something that has just occurred to me is that there have been several instances over the past couple of weeks where people have mentioned that they’re new to Python while they’re asking questions about TurboGears. Python has been my language of choice for a decade, and [...]