Tag Archives: python

StackOverflow DevDays Boston 2009, Morning

Boston DevDays kicked off a month-long tour of technical talks aimed at programmers, organized by StackOverflow and Carsonified. I had the good fortune to attend, meet a few interesting people and see some fun talks. I tried to write a bit in real-time (search Twitter here) but the WiFi was pretty over-subscribed and there was no cell coverage to speak [...]

How to extract PlanetLab geographic data

During the course of a given week, I answer a lot of technical questions. They range from the friend asking, “What laptop should I buy?” to strangers with very specific questions about the source code used in my research. I rather enjoy solving technical questions and taking a line from Jon Udell’s “Too busy to blog?” post, I’m [...]