February 19, 2010 by
Mike It's the first official day of PyCon: Friday, February 19th, 2010. In my experience, PyCon plenaries can either be really interesting or extremely boring. I've rarely seen one that was in the middle. The chairman of PyCon is Van Lindberg (The Python Software Foundation's lawyer, I think). Steve Holden was the first plenary speaker.
February 17, 2010 by
Mike I was contacted this week to review a new book from Packt Publishing entitled "Python Testing: Beginner's Guide" by Daniel Arbuckle (no relation to Garfield's master as far as I can tell). I haven't received the book yet, but you can read about it on their website. I also found the book on Amazon. Alas, […]
February 14, 2010 by
Mike I do a fair amount of technical support in addition to my software development. In our small shop, we get to troubleshoot anything that is related to technology, from networks to software to printers. I think one of the most annoying aspects is trying to get printers to work the way the user wants. Another […]
February 13, 2010 by
Mike A couple weeks ago, I wrote about some scripts we use at work for creating shortcuts to various programs in Windows. Well, we also push out updates to some programs which change the paths of the programs and then we need to change the user's shortcuts to match. Unfortunately, some user's will change the name […]
Roaming Profiles are a blessing and a curse. If the user uses the internet, their browser's cached files will grow like mad. If the user downloads programs to their desktop or creates large Powerpoint files anywhere in their profile, then they have to be managed whenever the user logs in or out. There are several […]
A few months ago, my employer needed to lock down some of our workstations to be compliant with some new software we were installing from another government organization. We needed to force those machines to lock after so many minutes elapsed and we needed to make it such that the user could not change those […]
