This Isn't a Pure Python Blog
I've been getting some flack about my Ruby-related posts showing up on Planet Python. On the one hand, I have never intended this to be a pure-Python blog. On the other hand, since most of my readers come from Planet Python, I surely don't want to upset them.
I work at two startups. One uses Python with Pylons. The other uses Ruby on Rails. This puts me squarely in both camps. In general, I try to code in and blog about as many technologies as I have time for. Hence, you'll often see posts about weirder things like Haskell, Erlang, Oz, etc.
I can understand how it would be frustrating for some people to read about Rails on Planet Python. In fact, I got kicked off of Planet Haskell because I spent too much time blogging about Python! Now, I could probably wax philosophic about the increasingly insular nature of programmers in our industry, but given how many times I've made fun of Java, it probably wouldn't do me any good ;)
If you have any advice, I'd love to hear it. I'd hate to create separate blogs, because all of these topics together are part of who I am and what I do. One of my heroes is Isaac Asimov, and that guy would write about anything! I see that there is a way to view just my Python posts: http://jjinux.blogspot.com/search/label/python. However, I don't see an atom feed for that. I've asked the guys on Planet Python for advice concerning this issue.
In the meantime:
If you have read my blog in the past, and you enjoy it, and you don't mind my occasional posts on weird things like Ruby, Oz, Haskell, etc., please consider subscribing to my blog directly: http://jjinux.blogspot.com/
Oh, and as usual, thanks for reading!
I work at two startups. One uses Python with Pylons. The other uses Ruby on Rails. This puts me squarely in both camps. In general, I try to code in and blog about as many technologies as I have time for. Hence, you'll often see posts about weirder things like Haskell, Erlang, Oz, etc.
I can understand how it would be frustrating for some people to read about Rails on Planet Python. In fact, I got kicked off of Planet Haskell because I spent too much time blogging about Python! Now, I could probably wax philosophic about the increasingly insular nature of programmers in our industry, but given how many times I've made fun of Java, it probably wouldn't do me any good ;)
If you have any advice, I'd love to hear it. I'd hate to create separate blogs, because all of these topics together are part of who I am and what I do. One of my heroes is Isaac Asimov, and that guy would write about anything! I see that there is a way to view just my Python posts: http://jjinux.blogspot.com/search/label/python. However, I don't see an atom feed for that. I've asked the guys on Planet Python for advice concerning this issue.
In the meantime:
If you have read my blog in the past, and you enjoy it, and you don't mind my occasional posts on weird things like Ruby, Oz, Haskell, etc., please consider subscribing to my blog directly: http://jjinux.blogspot.com/
Oh, and as usual, thanks for reading!
Comments
Or people could just lighten up, but you don't have as much control over that. :-)
Seriously, though, there really should be a feed per category or tag...
But surely you can use a yahoo pipe which only fetch feeds of python category or move to wordpress which does offer category feeds.
jimGR, I was thinking of something along those lines, but I wasn't sure if Yahoo Pipes or something else would work.
I'm hesitant to switch to WP for two reasons: 1) it crashed spectacularly on my buddy last night 2) I have so many stories here and so many links to here on jjinux.blogspot.com 3) I really like having someone else worry about admining the servers my blog runs on ;)
There it is!!!
http://jjinux.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/python
(in my latest research havent found a solution, this time asking google gave a straight answer)
Happy Hacking!
It's weird, I saw a known Python proponent in the consulting space getting negative comments on his blog lately too (I think he mentioned Java and it offended someone).
What's weird is there's a bunch of politcal and social commentary on the planet and no one seems to mind.
Whatever, please keep blogging. I like your blog.
Carl T.
It really does keep the Planets more useful if you actually are on topic...
Their should be a lot of stuff that applies to both languages collectively.
- Paddy.
(Disclaimer: my blog is aggregated on Planet Python and on Planet Maemo, and it's hard to only post about the intersection of the two topics, so this situation may influence my desire to tolerate more topical diversity on planets.)
Also, a summary of your opinions on using Pylons vs. Rails would be nice to read.
> It really does keep the Planets more useful if you actually are on topic...
Thanks for the advice. I figured out how to give a Python-only feed to Planet Python. I think I'll stick with Blogger until I have another reason to change. WP totally bit my buddy in the butt the other day.
Thanks for reading. Things have changed. If you want to keep reading about all my wacky adventures in programming, you'll have to subscribe to my blog directly.
> Also, a summary of your opinions on using Pylons vs. Rails would be nice to read.
Pylons is cool, but Rails is a much larger community and has a lot more features. I really like Rails. My buddy, Ben Bangert, will probably never forgive me for saying that :-/