August 31, 2008

Learning Python Complaints

I read an excellent post the other day discussing Python education. I personally identify with almost 100% the author has to say. With Perl and PHP online articles and available books provide task based examples. What better way to learn a programming language than to give examples on how to solve a specific problem. More than anything else the lack of task based instruction has stalled my adoption of Python.

http://troutgirl.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/learning-python/

July 21, 2008

mrtgsql Actually Used

So I just found out that a utility I wrote called mrtgsql (parses and records the values of the mrtg .log files into a SQL database is/was being used by a German hosting operation. Honestly I wouldn’t have imagined that anyone would be using the software – very cool that it came to use by someone. I’ve long since re-written the utility to read directly from .rrd files. Maybe I should release that work as well.

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