A Python script to generate an HTML calendar of sunrise and sunset times

A short snippet of Python code to get the current list of AWS regions

Sometimes you need your Vagrant instances to have the same AWS creds as your host machine. This is how I do it with Ansible.

Spark 1.1 was released a few weeks ago, and I've been curious about using it from a standalone Python script. While Spark has Java and Scala bindings, the Python one appeals to me most--I'd really like to be able to use Spark from within a standalone Python script, and then step through it in PyCharm, which is the IDE I really enjoy. Here's how to do that on Mac OS X 10.9

It's taken awhile, but I've finally got this blog into moderately decent shape.

One big issue in using servers on cloud providers suck as Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, and Google Compute Engine is dealing with their provisioning and deployment--in other words, how to build them out to begin with. Sure, you can write lots of Bash scripts, invest in Puppet and Chef training ...

A how-to on setting up Pelican that's already kind of outdated.

Today I moved off an old blogging platform onto a new one--a static blog using Pelican and Markdown, and hosted on Github.