Issac KellyPyCon Starcraft II Recap
Saturday night we had the first PyCon Starcraft II Tournament. This was a joint effort between myself and Daniel Lindsley, with the help of Christian Metts, the PyCon organizers (Doug Napoleone in particular) and lots of open source software.
16 competitors from unranked through platinum competed for next-to-nothing in prizes.
We ended up writing a bit of custom software to assist. We also started on Tuesday, so it was rougher than I would have liked. It's all up on github.com/issackelly/sc2tourney.
Etc
I promised some players that the first matches would be geared to be even. This ...
On Django Migrations: South vs Nashvegas
If you're writing your models with Django and not using migrations, that's crazy.
South and Nashvegas are two options for managing your migrations (really the only two I've ever heard of in practice). I use both, almost daily.
Nashvegas, is far and away the newer and lesser used. It doesn't do backwards migrations at all, and migrations are DB specific (although, much SQL is close enough that you can still use many migrations on other databases). That being said, it does one thing really well that south doesn't touch: your whole project.
South is app-centric ...
Things to Love about Geektime
The idea behind geektime is to fit the seconds in the day into 4 bytes (65536 geekseconds in a day, instead of 86400 old seconds).
This, initially seems like the musings of a sleep deprived geek, and, it possibly is. The stroke of genius in geektime is that it implies a timezone (UTC).
Days are just marked as an ascending date from Jan 1 (in UTC).
Djangodash is this weekend. It started at 0x0E0 0x3580 and it will end on 0x0E2 0x3580.
There is no longer confusion, or the possibility to skip over the quantifier (UTC -6...actually UTC -5 ...