- Reading from MongoDB Replica Sets with PyMongo
- The Chuang Tzu
I had a Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance moment today at the bike shop, watching the guy fix my tire. He hadn't worked on a Brompton before so he took apart the shifting assembly thoughtfully, then he pulled off the rear wheel and the [ ... ]
- Jukai
August 12, 2012. The Village Zendo's lay-ordination ceremony, Jukai, in which eight students received the Zen Buddhist precepts.
- Shuso Hossen
August 26, 2012. The Village Zendo's ceremony in which Seizan, our practice leader, gave his first talk.
- Floating Lanterns
August 10, 2012. The Village Zendo's annual floating-lantern ceremony to commemorate Obon. Near Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York.
- Breaking Change In PyMongo
In my excitement about the big changes in PyMongo 2.4, I forgot to mention a smaller one you should watch out for: from now on, if the initial connection to MongoDB fails, PyMongo raises ConnectionFailure instead of AutoReconnect. This is [ ... ]
- Soldier Field
November 10, 2012. Soldier Field in the rain.
- The Fifth Patriarch and the Three Turnings
This winter, the Village Zendo is reading The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, a foundational text of Chinese Zen. It was composed a generation or two after the lifetime of Huineng, and attributed to him. In it, Huineng tells the [ ... ]
- Street Portraits 2
Some street portraits taken while I walked home from the Zendo Wednesday morning.
- Toro: synchronization primitives for Tornado coroutines
I took a break from Motor to make a new package "Toro": queues, semaphores, locks, and so on for Tornado coroutines. (The name "Toro" is from "Tornado" and "Coro".) Why would you need something like this, especially since Tornado apps are [ ... ]