I happen to be a big fan of the deferred library for both Python runtimes in Google App Engine. If an application needs to queue up work, breaking the work into easy to understand units by writing worker methods and then deferring the work into tasks is a breeze using …

This is from a talk I gave to the UC Santa Cruz Math Club back in February. I have had the slides cluttering my desk since I gave the talk as a reminder of putting them up on the web, and today I finally cleaned them off!

An interested tidbit …

I was recently playing around with some loan data and only happened to have the term (or length, or duration) of the loan, the amount of the recurring payment (in this case monthly) and the remaining principal owed on the loan. I figured there was an easy way to get …

Disclaimer: These are silly little pranks, but I don't encourage messing with someone's computing environment without letting them know you have done so.

First Prank:

I have a friend who really likes to read people.com, so I figured I would "enrich" her life a bit with another source of …

Well, it's been a bit crazy and I haven't written a blog post in ages. I have several brewing, but had just been too busy at work (and a ton of travel for personal fun) to really have the excess time to write.

This return post will not have much …