http://jonebird.com Nesting place for this bird's projects Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:22:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a quick howto on getting a 64bit Flash working with your 64bit Google Chrome browser on Fedora. The unfortunate part is that I feel obligated in writing this down for people but it's really not that complicated after you figure out a few details. First things first, you need ... http://jonebird.com/2010/02/24/64bit-google-chrome-with-flash-on-fedora/ Have you ever wondered which signal handlers a particular process has registered? A friend of mine was observing different behavior when spawning a new process from his Python script vs. invoking the command in the shell. Actually, he was consulting me about finding the best way to shutdown the process ... http://jonebird.com/2010/02/09/deciphering-caught-signals/ Tomorrow I will be presenting an Introduction to Hadoop: Driven by Python for the inaugural Central Ohio Python Users Group or just CoPUG for short. I have high hopes for CoPUG. The organizer, Eric Floehr, appears to be well organized, competent individual although I have only exchanged emails and have ... http://jonebird.com/2009/09/27/presenting-at-inaugural-copug/ I often joke that the only people that read my weblog are bots, so it shouldn't bother me if my site is down but it does. Last week the server, which was also doubling as a workstation for the wife, died. "The computer is not working", the Wife explained. I ... http://jonebird.com/2009/09/16/server-death/ Being a #1 best selling book, there is a decent chance you've heard of Strengths Finder 2.0. At my work, our whole team got a copy of it. I'm busy finishing up another book, but meanwhile everyone else has completed the online assessment of their strengths and have started sharing ... http://jonebird.com/2009/09/04/finding-my-strengths/ Big news in the world of Hadoop today. My Running Large Python Tasks With Hadoop is published in the July Edition of Python Magazine. This marks my second article with the magazine and I had a lot of fun doing it. My interest in the anti-rdbms will continue as I ... http://jonebird.com/2009/08/10/hadoop-elephant-makes-a-big-splash/ Every once and a while I like to re-read manuals about pieces of software which I already feel quite comfortable in using in hopes to learn a new trick or two. Today, I was browsing the freely available GNU Emacs Manual and was breezing through it until I hit the ... http://jonebird.com/2009/06/24/emacs-registers-and-bookmarks/ Today was Patrick Shuff's first day with our team. He is our intern for the summer and I actually recommended that we steal him from another team after meeting him last year. From my half day assessment of him last year, I thought he was much more suited to work ... http://jonebird.com/2009/06/15/intern-regiment/ For years I thought the best way to enhance my Windows experience, with the common Unix/Linux tools I'm most comfortable with, was to do so with cygwin. That was until now. At work, where we are forced to use Windows, I recently had my laptop rebuild and afterwards my re-install ... http://jonebird.com/2008/11/22/andlinux/ I sit in the Atlanta Airport reminiscing over the events of PyWorks '08. This was the first year for PyWorks but MTA combined the conference with PHP Architect and I believe everyone was happy with the combination. At a minimum, people had engaging conversations between the groups and a significant ... http://jonebird.com/2008/11/16/pyworks-in-summation/