6. A grab bag of GSoC frustrations

   Students don't understand the process we go through, partly because we don't make it very transparent.

   People don't view this as a chance to mentor students, but rather as a job application.

   Google doesn't give us enough money ;)

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7. Twill lives!

   One of the advantages of this year's PyCon was that it was (again) held in Chicago, the home town of Leapfrog Online. Since they use twill quite a bit, and were bothered by some of the poor design decisions and bugginess, they were keen to get together with me to …

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8. What should Titus talk about next year at PyCon?

   My talk this year kinda sucked -- more on that later -- and I am trying to come up with good and perhaps even non-testing talk ideas for next year.

   One intriguing idea contributed by Brian Dorsey is that of giving 5 lightning talks in a 30 minute session. Since I like …

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9. Pursuing simplicity

   John Gall apparently said:

   A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with …

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10. Withrow Award for Teaching Excellence

    Just a short note with characteristic inhumility (ahumility? abhumility?) -- for my Concepts in Database-Backed Web Programming course, I received the Withrow Award for Teaching Excellence from the students.

    This means a lot to me, because I spent a huge amount of time on that course (and will have to do …

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11. Twitter Ho!

    OK, I'm going to try out twitter for the first time, in order to see if it works out at PyCon for keeping track of what's going on and letting people know what I'm up to. I guess you have to e-mail me to get in touch with me, though …

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12. The Use and Abuse of Keyword Arguments in Python

    I'm 3/4 of the way through my first ground-up code review for pygr, and I want to gripe about something that pygr does a fair bit of: use Python's **kwargs. I don't want to escale it into a policy argument & policy decision for pygr, so I'm posting it here …

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