http://www.bright-green.com/blog/ Alan Green Writes en-us 2007-11-27T00:09:02+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2007_11_27/here_at_the_open_source.html OSDC just started. Great to catch up with Keith and Mark. Its great that Google could support the conference by sponsoring the dinner, but it feels little weird having Sponsor on my name badge. The conference opened with a nice little speech by Scot... Software Development Python alang 2007-11-27T00:09:02+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2007_01_01/step_by_step_to_a.html The last paragraph of my previous post wasnt particularly clear. Heres a step-by-step guide to modelling the Suns direction at sunset, using only a ball, a lamp, and a texta. Put a lamp up one end of the room. This will be the Sun. Get a ball to re... Python javablogs Tall Tales alang 2007-01-01T20:19:56+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2007_01_01/sydneyside_southerly_sunset.html Julian has an astronomical puzzle. He claimed: If you are located further South than the Tropic of Capricorn, then the Sun will never be directly overhead, and furthermore will only appear in the Northern half of the sky. I predicted that this fa... Python javablogs Tall Tales alang 2007-01-01T00:22:44+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_12_21/last_day.html Well, after four and a half years, Im leaving this job. Its been a blast. For such a little company, its amazingly stuffed with talented, interesting people. Amongst my colleagues are Keith, David, and Neville. Other alumni include Charles Miller (wh... Stuff javablogs Software Development Python Java alang 2006-12-21T23:47:11+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_12_20/distracted_by_pretty_things.html Im still working my way toward rewriting this blogs software. It would be a lot easier if I werent distracted by, say, Pyglet. Meanwhile, heres a funny TV ad, with cats. Python alang 2006-12-20T03:21:03+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_12_14/rails_vs_django_paper_and.html Following in the steps of beautiful people such as Mary, Keith, Andy, and Anthony, Im posting the paper and slides for Bens and my OSDC presentation. The Rails vs Django Paper in Open Office The Rails vs Django Paper as a pdf The Rails vs Django P... Python javablogs alang 2006-12-14T10:27:40+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_11_15/why_java_needs_to_escape.html At the same time as I had a great big blog dummy spit about a known memory leak in java.util.concurrent, I did the constructive thing and submitted a bug report. My basic point was that, if the code cant be fixed, the problem and its workaround shoul... javablogs Software Development Python Java Rants alang 2006-11-15T11:14:53+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_11_14/rails_vs_django.html Bens and my Rails vs Django OSDC paper is now up on Google Docs. Please have a read, and, if you have any feedback, leave a comment here, or get in touch via the email addresses at the bottom of the paper. Python Software Development javablogs alang 2006-11-14T00:28:39+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_10_22/google_maps_api.html I had a look at the Google Maps Javascript API. It put me in mind of the Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Brigades active incident display recently developed by my colleague, Chris so I wrote a quick Python script to scrape the MFBs page and jammed the ... Python Software Development javablogs alang 2006-10-22T11:37:04+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_10_10/weblog_software_rewrite_underw.html As previously threatened, Im rewriting my weblogging software again, in Django. Source code is up on Google Code. Software Development Python alang 2006-10-10T19:13:37+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_10_05/python_tracker_fud.html Its great to see that the PSF Infrastructure committee have (almost) chosen an issue tracker. Whats disappointing, though, is the reaction over on comp.lang.python. Giovanni and friends should remember that this is the end of the process for choos... Rants Python alang 2006-10-05T19:23:02+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_09_20/osdc_2006_paper_done.html Ben and I just finished the first draft of our joint Rails vs Django paper for OSDC2006. We are feeling extremely diligent, having submitted it an entire hour before the midnight deadline. It turns out that, in many respects, Rails and Django are eq... Stuff Software Development Python alang 2006-09-20T20:33:00+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_07_12/initialising_application_data_.html I found an alternate way to initialise Django application data. The usual method is to create specially named SQL data files (as described in the documentation) which are executed as syncdb creates your model tables. SQL is generally adequate, but so... Software Development Python alang 2006-07-12T21:44:24+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_06_27/a_first_look_at_django.html I just finished the four-part Django tutorial, and Im impressed. Here are my initial thoughts: Djangos full API + shortcut API philosophy shows all the signs of being put together by experienced programmers who eat their own dogfood. Djangos model ... Python javablogs alang 2006-06-27T12:40:19+00:00 http://bright-green.com/blog/2006_06_22/osdc_2006.html The Open Source Developers Conference is on again this later year, in Melbourne, 5th 8th December, and the call for papers is out. If you develop or use open source software, this is a conference for you. javablogs Python Java alang 2006-06-22T02:18:05+00:00