I'm going to call it PyPap

I didn't intend for three months to go by before I finished my first "real" post to my new blog. And this isn't going to be a "real" post either. I just can't allow any more time to go by, and have any hope of this being a "real" blog.

The problem is I set my sights too high. I just don't have enough Python experience to write authoritative posts on Python Patterns and Practices. I aspire to get there someday, and perhaps this blog will help me get there faster. But in the meantime, I'm going to rename the blog from its URL: "PyPap". That feels much less pretentious to me, and should reduce my own expectations for future posts.

So for any of you out there that stumble upon this, hopefully what follows are semi-regular posts on bits of Python that are new to me. They may not be patterns, or practices, but hopefully some of them prove to be useful to you too.

My Second Blog

I finished listening to Scott Bain's "Emergent Design: The Evolutionary Nature of Professional Software Development" audio-only webinar (which I recommend--I got it through their podcast on iTunes--I was unable to find it on NetObjective's website). I was inspired by that and Doug Hellmann's blog (especially his PyMOTW posts, about which we recently had a very brief correspondence) to start this blog.

I'm going to try to write here about Python practices and design patterns in Python as regularly as I can. (I don't know if I'll be able to do so every week, but I'll try.) As Doug Hellmann wrote to me (about PyMOTW):

I really did start that project as a way to make myself write on a regular basis and to learn...

My intentions for this blog are the same.

(BTW, my other blog is at yacitus.blogspot.com.)