parsedatetime 0.8.6 released
The new dayjob has been keeping me very busy so I’ve neglected working on parsedatetime.
An email reminding me that I had checked in 0.8.5 with the damn debug flag still enabled gave me the poke I needed to go thru the Issues listed (wow - people have been filing bugs!) and generate a new release.
See the Changes.txt entry for 0.8.6 for details.
It can be found via the Python Package Index, Google Code or my own
website.
Thanks to Bernd Zeimetz (Debian maintainer) for submitting a patch to localize parsedatetime for the German (de_DE) locale!
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Seesmic Migrated
Probably should have posted about this a couple of days ago, but after spending 4 days of 20 hours days chasing down one little issue after another with the migration, I took the weekend off 
So, yep - we migrated to the new hardware finally!
Now Seesmic is running behind some new load-balanced file servers and the recording cluster has been increased (and also now load-balanced) but the big thing behind the migration was that we are now running everything thru the Ruby (Nginx + Merb + Memcached) API/Proxy. This means that all client requests (ours and any 3rd party) are handled and routed by the file/proxy cluster.
Sure does make it easier to log and monitor when there is a single entry point now.
I need to create an entry or two on some of the curious things we had to do with Nginx and the Gluster DFS to get all of our various API calls to work and to also allow the older URL routes to static resources to not break. Woo legacy URLs!
We had some glitches with the code but by far the biggest glitch was not realizing that our DNS provider would not allow us to change the CNAME for www to point to any server except those it managed! Waaa! yea, we had to scramble and come up with a www2 -> www proxy on the old server until we got the Nameserver changed for seesmic.com and wow was that a long 6 hours waiting for all the entries to propagate.
but yea, migration over - now on to adding more features
Alex, Bart and Ken make it official - Round3Media is live!
Man, the good news is hopping today!
First I get word that Ted Leung is working for Sun and now I hear that my favourite Philly tech team has decided to make the informal collaboration that has served them so well in the past year more official!
Not that they weren’t pro’s from the start, but now they have a business structure they can use to leverage even more projects, sub-contract teams and coolness!
So, everyone who does consulting in Philly - you have a new dominating player to worry about!
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Ted hired by Sun - wooo!
One of the best people I’ve ever had the pleasure of working for/with has just been hired by Sun - Ted Leung. cNet seems to have broken the store here.
We knew something was up just from some of the questions he was asking and some of the trips he was making - after all you can’t be someone of Ted caliber and not stay un-hired for long
Glad to see he landed at a great company and I hope that Sun is ready for him 
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