http://www.postneo.com what comes next? Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:06:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was pleasantly surprised at my experience installing PyLucene this morning on my OSX 10.5 laptop. The installation instructions worked perfectly without a hiccup. This may not be impressive if you've never installed (or attempted to install) PyLucene before. I tried once a year or so back and was ... http://www.postneo.com/2009/02/11/installing-pylucene-on-osx-105 While I don't plan on moving away from Apache Solr for my searching needs any time soon, Jeremy Zawodny's post on Sphinx at craigslist made me want to take a closer look. Sphinx works with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and XML input as data sources, but MySQL seems to be the ... http://www.postneo.com/2009/02/06/sphinx-search-with-postgresql I'm winding down after a couple of very long days preparing for our coverage of the 2008 Kansas (and local) primaries. As always it's been an exhausting but rewarding time. We've come a long way since the first election I wrote software for and was involved with back ... http://www.postneo.com/2008/08/06/kansas-primary-2008-recap I'm a little late to the announcement party, but I'll be attending DjangoCon and sitting on a panel about Django in Journalism with Maura Chace and Matt Waite. The panel will be moderated by our own Adrian Holovaty. I think the panel will be pretty fantastic but I can't help ... http://www.postneo.com/2008/08/01/djangocon Last weekend, our first child, Natalie Anne Croydon was born. I've been trying to keep up with Flickr photos and updated my twitter feed a lot during the labor and delivery process (what a geek!). Thanks to everyone for their kind words and congratulations. For more pictures, check my ... http://www.postneo.com/2008/06/01/natalie-anne-croydon It's been pretty awesome watching the homebrew UAV community discover and embrace Arduino. Back in January community leader Chris Anderson discovered and fell in love with Arduino. Today he posted information and the board design for an Arduino-powered UAV platform. Because everything is open, it's very easy ... http://www.postneo.com/2008/05/12/arduino-transforming-the-diy-uav-community This madness needs to stop! Espoo, Finland - Nokia today unveiled a trio of mobile devices that balance stunning and sophisticated looks with the latest in mobile functionality. All three devices, the Nokia 6600 fold, the Nokia 6600 slide and the Nokia 3600 slide present a smooth, minimalist design and an ... http://www.postneo.com/2008/05/04/this-whole-number-reuse-thing-has-gone-too-far I had the opportunity to meet Jürgen Scheible and Ville Tuulos, authors of the Mobile Python book at PyCon a few weeks ago. They graciously gave me a copy of their book, which is an absolutely fantastic guide to writing S60 apps in Python. It seems like every ... http://www.postneo.com/2008/03/28/python-for-s60-back-in-the-saddle I'm headed out the door to PyCon 2008. Yay! http://www.postneo.com/2008/03/13/pycon-2008 I think we're about ready for caucus results to start coming in. We're covering the Caucus results at LJWorld.com and on Twitter. Turnout is extremely heavy. So much so that they had to split one of the caucus sites in two because the venue was full. Later... How did we do it? We gained ... http://www.postneo.com/2008/02/05/covering-kansas-democratic-caucus-results Wow, the Django job market is heating up. I posted a job opening for both junior and senior-level Django developers on djangogigs just a few days ago, and it has already fallen off the front page. So I'll mention it again: We're hiring! We're growing and we have several ... http://www.postneo.com/2008/01/22/were-hiring I like to think that I'm pretty good at recognizing trends. One thing that I've been seeing a lot recently in my interactions with the newsroom is that we're no longer exchanging Excel spreadsheets, Word files, and other binary blobs via email. Instead we're sending invites to spreadsheets ... http://www.postneo.com/2008/01/07/google-apps-for-your-newsroom The 2008 DIgital Edge Award finalists were just announced, and I'm excited to see several World Company sites and projects on there as well as a couple of sites running Ellington and even the absolutely awesome Django-powered PolitiFact.com. At work we don't do what we do for awards. We do ... http://www.postneo.com/2007/12/20/2008-digital-edge-award-finalists I was reading a post on the (unofficial) Nokia Blog detailing the shortcut keys for the S60 Web Browser. I was instantly reminded of my own frustration and how often I had looked at that page of the user manual. Web Browser for S60 is easily the most powerful app ... http://www.postneo.com/2007/11/22/web-browser-for-s60-if-only-i-remembered-the-shortcut-key I was checking up on the TIGER/Line import to OpenStreetMaps earlier today and I was pleased to see that Kansas is already partially processed! I had emailed Dave the other day and he had queued Kansas up, but I was pleasantly suprised to see it partially processed already. ... http://www.postneo.com/2007/11/17/kansas-covered-by-openstreetmap My wife and I just bought a house and I've realized that there isn't any room in the budget for major gadget purposes, so I've been trying not to get too excited about things coming down the road. It's not suprising that I've been following the recently announced Nokia ... http://www.postneo.com/2007/10/17/maemo-blows-me-away-again I got pretty excited when Rafe posted a video about S60 touch on allaboutsymbian. I've been using S60 since the 3650 days and continue to love it, despite its quirks and shortcomings. There have been rumours of touch capabilities for S60 for years now, long before the announcement ... http://www.postneo.com/2007/10/16/you-had-me-until-i-saw-the-stylus I got my last issue of Business 2.0 in the mail today. As predicted they've offered to send me one month of Fortune for every two months of my remaining subscription. I've been offered "equivalent" subscriptions for cancelled publications in the past, but never at a 1:2 ratio. I might grab ... http://www.postneo.com/2007/10/02/goodbye-business-20 Every time I refresh my feed reader and see a new slick third-party app for the iPhone, I wonder to myself if a few years down the road we're going to be talking about pre-1.1.1 iPhones like we talk about Newton's today. Third party apps and unlocked iPhones are ... http://www.postneo.com/2007/10/01/newton-20 Over the weekend I added KML/GeoRSS data loading via GGeoXml to some mapping software for work. I ran in to a couple of gotchas and a couple of things that I thought were really interesting, so I thought I'd share. Getting started GGeoXml and particularly clickable polylines are relatively new features, ... http://www.postneo.com/2007/09/10/google-maps-geoxml-crash-course