School is underway again, and now that we are a few weeks in to the semester I wanted to take a minute to talk about growth. Last year about this time things were still pretty chaotic, with the unexpected success of the books the servers were laboring intensely to keep …

I'm pleased to announce that over the weekend, I updated interactivepython.org to version 3.0. This release completes another summer of hacking, and integrating contributions from colleagues around the world.

My plan in this post is to briefly summarize some of the highlights of the new release and then …

Well its been an interesting week. My daughter is married, and I've been caught in the crossfire of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Webfaction, my hosting provider. I'm quite sure the two are unrelated.

For those of you who have been frustrated in your attempts to access …