Nick Bastin

I have submitted a proposal for a talk on micro-optimization for PyOhio, and you should check out the CFP yourself (ok, probably not you, mom…). I had to write a little bio and I put a link to this blog in it, so I figured I’d make sure I still had the login information [...]

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If you try to build the lastest pycurl (7.19.0) on MacOS 10.6 you may get the following errors:
i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1: /usr/lib/libcurl.a: No such file or directory
powerpc-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1: /usr/lib/libcurl.a: No such file or directory
i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1: /usr/lib/libcurl.a: No such file or directory
The problem is that setup.py is calling curl-config (as it should) and requesting the static libs as well as the [...]

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It turns out this issue had already been reported, at:
http://bugs.python.org/issue4366

The initial (unaccepted) patch in there did the same thing I did in my source tree to make it work, but it was clearly the wrong thing (it had the “wrong thing” smell from the start, really). After a bunch of digging, the reality is [...]

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Ok, really that should be 2.6.4 and 2.7.1a1, but I’d imagine this problem might exist for more than just those versions. I haven’t tried to build 3.x.
I don’t quite know the exact steps that produce this problem (maybe any/all configure option?), but if you do:
./configure –enable-shared
as is my wont to do, Python happily builds [...]

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Slashdot simply reposted this blog entry at:
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/12/20/1433257/The-Environmental-Impact-of-PHP-Compared-To-C-On-Facebook
Passing on an opportunity to bash slashdot for lacking any sort of edited treatment of these stories (if they advertised themselves as a curated RSS aggregator, I wouldn’t even care about this, but they don’t), the source entry itself is not much short of a marketing pitch. It’s [...]

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I know I haven’t written in a while. I might start again. I might not. I’m really unreliable like that.
However, I would like to take this moment to state that I really, really, hate Trac. Possibly I hate how people deploy it, but the common deployment for the wiki is quite [...]

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I’ve been poking around using dtrace on OS X (Snow Leopard) recently and have some interest in using it with Python. Apple provides probes in Python (although they have yet to make it upstream, for reasons that I can’t fathom, given that they’ve been available for years) but I’m having some issues with them.
There [...]

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I finally broke down and ordered a Das Keyboard Professional. It has had several good mentions over at StackOverflow and I have had zero luck walking down the aisle of keyboards at MicroCenter/BestBuy/CircuitCity and finding anything that felt better than plastic depressing into Jello. The standard Apple keyboard on my Mac Pro has [...]

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