Good experiences continue to abound in our use of the (still young and growing) Roundup issue tracker. I've added a couple of new major object types: Projects and Documents. Projects are a way to tie a collection of issues (and now documents) together under one object that houses its own set of data. Documents are a way for us to move our scatterings of notes that have populated FOUR previous systems (not to mention the never-finished mega-project-and-contact-manager I was working on) into a single place that's stripped down, fast, but still usable. Wiki's have been too haphazard, and we've had some serious speed issues with Plone and even the old Zope Tracker on the same box we're running Roundup on. It's a testament to Ka-Ping Yee's design, and Richard Jones' execution of those designs, that Roundup has proven to be so flexible.
Sigh... There were some good documents in the Software Carpentry Archives that don't seem to be available any more. Even the wayback machine is having issues finding them.
I'm sure this is already spreading like wildfire, but Al Gore has joined Apple's Board of Directors. Feel free to make your own jokes about wooden iMacs. :)
BIN LADEN WANTS YOU! To invade Iraq, as TomPaine.com reminds us in this reprise of their justly-praised op-ad .[Via TAPPED]
An interesting find on PyPI: PyDBC 0.2 "Contracts for Python 2.2+". PyDBC creates a new metaclass that can be used to handle preconditions, postconditions, and invariants.
From Salon: "People looking for the answer to the big question -- Why on earth did she stay? -- may well keep in mind that Utah, for better and for worse, is not the rest of America."
So sadly true. But my rent is cheap, and the snow is (finally) good. Too bad the liquor laws here are so royally smegged up. sigh. I was missing the East, but am a little leery of running into this.
It was bound to happen sometime: "A conservative alternative to Ben and Jerry's". Featuring "I hate the French vanilla", "Nutty Environmentalist", and "Iraqi Road". Oh, and "Smaller GovernMINT".
Is that the same smaller governMINT that gives you the "unstoppable deficit runs"?