As I am working through the new architecture for the Runestone Interactive server I wanted to make sure that I had my authentication model working right from the beginning. The goals for the architecture are as follows: * I want people to be able to write and host the static parts …
more ...As part of the grand reorganization of the various tools and software associated with the Runestone Interactive project I am planning to also write a series of tutorials to help people get started. The major aspects of this reorganization are discussed in detail in the Project Roadmap, but for …
more ...I am going to have to go to PyCon. Not next year, as I'm going to be in Malta at the time, but hopefully in 2016. I don't know how many people attend, but the number is big, and they have sold old every year for the past three years …
more ...During my January travels, I also converted this blog from tubmlr, which had been frustrating me for a while, to Octopress, with which I have been very happy. Nothing like hacker level control of your own blog. But more, than just the switch in tools, the move to Octopress inspired …
more ...Today I'm really pleased to announce that have launched version 2.0 of our interactive computer science textbooks:
We first launched these books on our interactivepython …
more ...I'm finally there. After a long time of writing books using Python 3, and teaching in Python 3 on a daily basis, I'm finally at the point where I'm changing my work environment to use Python 3 by default.
Here are the signs that convinced me it was time:
We passed 3 million entries in our log data for InteractivePython.org which got me to wondering about how we are growing. The site has been live for 275 days. You can really see how the site took off after day 100, which makes sense because that was bout the …
more ...I've decided that it will be best to keep my personal blog separate from the new Everyday Python blog project. All of the infrastructure to make the posts interactive just work so much better when I have control of the server and everything else. So You can head over to …
more ...OK, here is the first installment of the new Everyday Python series. Today I'm just providing a link, as I still have some infrastructure work to get done in order to publish each installment both here and at Runestone Interactive.
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