So I installed ubuntu on my windows partition tonight. I did this with the help of wubi. It was super simple, with one problem.

Trying to install it from the CD with wubi failed after copying the cd image was 100% complete. I got a message that stated "Could Not Access The CD, please make sure other applications are not using it and try again"

Seemed bad, and I almost gave up.

On a whim, I went ahead and copied the wubi installer to my desktop, where the iso also resides. I then ran the wubi installer from my dekstop and viola! It worked fine. Hopefully this will help anyone else with the same error I was experiencing.

Yay! I threw together a quick archive of all my posts here

Per Mike's suggestion, I made the entire body of a blog post available via RSS. While I was refactoring all of the RSS code, I also went ahead and added the ability to subscribe to an single post, comments and all.

Why the hefty updates of my site? Well, I failed to get the Oxygen Sensor off my car today and wanted to feel like I accomplished something.

That's all, folks

So I've been playing with pyglet a lot. Being that my work laptop is windows, and I don't think they'd appreciate me partitioning it with Linux, I decided to play with it on windows, which will also help hone my Win32 python development experience.

I'd like to point out that I love the pyglet API, it's clean and simple!

For fun, I built a test application in pyglet and wanted to send it to a friend (it was kind of a joke). Rather than sending him the code and instructing him on how to run it (he's a non-technical type), I chose to package it as an windows executable.

py2exe is easy! Install the package, build you're setup.py and run it. Couldn't be much more simple. When compiling my code, however, I ran into a problem. It started throwing an traceback related to Audio drivers. After a quick google session, I found this google group thread, which pointed me exactly where I needed to be.

When running you're code through py2exe, you need to tell it what audio driver to use like so: python setup.py py2exe --includes pyglet.media.drivers.directsound

Hope this helps!

Take a look at my Flicker for some fun pictures of my time at pycon 2008 in Chicago. Good times!

Take a look over at Dave Stanek's post about hosting PyCon in 2010. I think it's a phenomenal idea. Cleveland is an inexpensive place to host a conference with the big city attractions that prevent boredom. I can personally attest to the fun-factor here as it's part of the reason I chose to stay. Cleveland also has a good sized python community as well as pretty heavy python use in the tech companies.

In short, Cleveland loves python and we think Pythonites will love Cleveland, too.

Currently in a session about PyTriton Petabyte File system. Interesting stuff. Tonight we're going to head down to The Ram Bar and check out their brews. I have some pictures of our awesome useless trip downtown last night, but I can't seem to locate an extra usb cord. If anyone has one, look for me, or reply here and let me know!

Tomorrow I think we're going to The Map Room where I'm looking forward to a Black Out Stout!

In the middle of writing this blog I ended up moving next door to the "Python in System Administration", hoping to take a lot away from this.

In the interest of adopting newish technology and request from a user I'm happy to let everyone know that my comment sections (and blog authoring area, yay!) now use Markdown for, erm, Markup :).

Thanks for your patience on this very pressing matter.

On a side note, 6 days till PyCon!

Busy month for me! I proposed to my Girlfriend Amanda on February 28th, so the planning has begun. It's a tedious task! Soooo many choices, soooooo much money, soooo excited! I'll be posting updates as we plan, so stay tuned.

I'm heading to PyCon 2008 in Chicago! I'm taking the tutorial on Eggs and Buildout Deployment in Python by Jeff Rush so I can learn more about setuptools/easy_install, etc for when I go to engineer our own python package deployment system.

For my birthday I will be at PyCon in Chicago! This is super awesome for me because I'll get to hang out with uber-geeks, learn a lot, and have a grand time for my birthday and St. Patrick's day!