Work through the Python Tutorial - (100% complete)

Work through the Django Tutorial - (100% complete)

Write kickass Django Application - (100% complete)

Put kickass Django Application live in major European Investment Bank - (50% complete)

We *like* Python and we *love* Django.

What a great present during the long lead up to my annual lie in on Father’s Day - Charlie (aged 17 months ish) can say, “Daddy”.

Of course, being a girl, her first actual word was, “shoes”.

It’s official, I am now a bone fide, card carrying, four eyed specoid git. But only for reading and peering at the ‘pooter screen, I can still see a gnats knackers at 4,000 paces.

Spent last weekend on a Dads and Lads (and Lasses) camping trip. I’m pretty well endowed, in a camping equipment sense, but a couple of pitches away was a Tentipi.  I want one so bad it hurts - in fact, I need one and will not rest until I have one.

I just need to get approval from my squaw!

SELECT myName
    FROM myTable
	FETCH first 100 rose only; 

Great tits cope well with warming.

# A hash denotes a single line comment in Python.
# The hash key is very hard to find on a MacBook.
# Because there isn't one.
# Try Alt + 3

So, I’ve been under some pressure from certain people to start learning Python. Sam is learning his multiplication tables at school so what better way to start than by killing two parrots with two sharp flat ones and a bag of gravel (after HelloWorld.py that is)…

# TimesTable
# For Sam - Prompts for a name and a number.
# Prints out x times table

# A bit Noddy but you gotta start somewhere...

name = raw_input( "Hello, what's your name : " )
print "Hi", name,
number = raw_input( ", type a number : " )

print " "
print "The times table for ", number, "is : "
print " "

for i in range(1, 13):
    print i, "x", number, "=", i * int(number)

So I’m off to the Lake District on holiday - might blog whilst I’m away, might just eat Kendal Mint Cake and wonder lonely as a cloud that floats on high o’er vales and hills.

See ya next week.

I thought I might make a return to blogging after a rather long absence - I only went out for a pint of mik.

So, what *have* I been doing instead of blogging? Well, apart from being a great husband and terrific father, I’ve mainly been using what small amount of spare intellect I have left (after remembering my name and how to chew gum) to retrain myself to write bugs in Java instead of RPG (and other legacy type stuff). I think I’ve done rather well considering.

Expect more techie type posts as I desperately try to be taken seriously and fewer reference to Liz Hurley’s pedulous orbs.

So here I am. Happy now?

And, in keeping with my previous blogging style - bugger this, I’m off to the pub!