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 …

So now here we are, having tried to handle errors in Google App Engine...and failed all because silly DeadlineExceededError jumps over Exception in the inheritance chain and goes right for BaseException. How can we catch these in our handlers while staying Pythonic?

First and foremost, in the case of …

After spending a nontrivial amount of my nights and weekends working on an App Engine app, I wanted a good way to monitor the logs without checking in on them every day. After a particularly frustrating weekend of updates that exposed unnoticed bugs that had yet to be triggered by …

I have been wanting to write a post for awhile, but was travelling for a work event and while on the road I decided to be lazy.

Since I just so happen to use a few GData APIs occasionally in my day to day work, most of the post ideas …