bjørn / beorn / 白熊

Most people are blown away when I show how conveniently and efficiently you can get things done using the keyboard in OS X. Power users have always know the keyboard rulez over the mouse, but coming…

Apple recently announced that there are more than 15,000 apps (applications) in the app store. My iTunes shows I have downloaded and tried 189 of them, but even going through those, there…

As you know, several of the core Django developers went to the Washington Post to work, and they just announced several open source components that looks extremely promising, quoting them:

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Shot from my apartment last night:

FLOSS Weekly is really on fire! The last episode of the podcast has a really interesting interview with Greg Stein, previous chairman of the Apache Software Foundation, co-founder of the …

Eric Clapton is all thumbs after all:

Stevie Ray Vaughan, not as good as you thought:

This video is from our ExoSocial event at Nanshan Ski Village just outside Beijing today. It shows what the few people that went to the top were up to (most people stayed on the green slopes). Fun to see programmers, PMs, and sysadms basking in the snow.

This was my first edit using the new iMovie. It’s a very rough cut

On occasion of the second world-wide Django sprint we got together 12 people to sprint at Exoweb’s office yesterday.

The good:

• It was great to see new Djangoistas, and it made me think there might even be enough interest for a Django user group in Beijing. There’s already a Python User Group in Beijing.

• I personally found it fun to get down-and-dirty with the core Django framework. It’s good to work with a system that has such a complete set of tests and documentation. It has a…

If you’re in Beijing, feel free to join as at the Exoweb office Saturday Dec 1st from 11:30 until 24:00 for the Django sprint.

I’ve been having so much fun listening to songs and watching music videos by Jonathan Coluton, an ex-software developer gone Internet music artist, or “Internet star”. He originally made headlines with his “Thing a Week” project in which he would make and publish a song every week. Merlin Mann has a good interview with Jonathan where he discusses what the process was like.

His unique background makes for some unique songs, very geeky songs, like code monkey and lately Still Alive, the…