python-module-for-puppet

I’ve been using the python-module-for-puppet to make sure my build environment machines have the python modules they need.
The modules been working as advertised, but unfortunately some of machines need to be running older versions of a couple packages, so I forked the project and added support for an optional $version argument so the easy_install command [...]

So your wonky Indiana time zone is not mentioned in tzsetup-udeb ?

A bunch of  wonky Indiana time zones, were added to pkg-glibc/tzdata over 19 months ago, (along with a number of other time zone changes) but they still haven’t surfaced in the tzsetup-udeb package, as of 1/7/2009.
As a result, if you’re in one of these odd Indiana counties, the tzsetup portion of the installation won’t display [...]

Novalang Real World Haskell.

I attended the first session of the novalang sessions on Real World Haskell. So far, I haven’t picked up too much, but we’ve only gone through the first two chapters. It looks like a pretty good group, with a lot of smart folks attending.
The group had a mixture of people using both [...]

New year / new blog

One of my New Year’s Resolutions (from last year actually) is to revive this blog.  So after digging up the administrative password for the site, I decided to look into WordPress a little, and here’s what I came up with.