Jesse Noller

Here you’ll find a list of “other things” I’ve writ­ten — either book for­wards, arti­cles for mag­a­zines or con­tent for other blogs. It’s not exhaus­tive — just some of the best of or most inter­est­ing things I’ve been lucky enough to write at other places than this blog. I’ve also listed books where I was lucky enough to be a tech­ni­cal edi­tor for as well.

Python Mag­a­zine Articles

While Python Mag­a­zine was short-lived, I was very lucky to act as a con­tent editor/technical reviewer and also write some arti­cles I’m pretty proud of. Since the mag­a­zine is defunct, but they gave me license to repub­lish the arti­cles here, these are links to the repub­lished articles.

• Python Threads and the Global Inter­preter lock
• YAML Ain’t Markup Language
• SSH Pro­gram­ming with Paramiko
• A (brief) intro­duc­tion to Python-Core development
• Get with the Pro­gram as contextmanager
• An Inter­view with Adam Olsen, Author of Safethreading

Book Con­tri­bu­tions

I’ve been lucky to be involved in a few books — either as an tech­ni­cal reviewer, or in the case of two books — I was hon­ored and lucky to write the fore­ward to them.

• Dive Into Python 3 by Mark Pil­grim– I was lucky enough to write the fore­ward for this book — I’ve pub­lished the full fore­ward to my blog — “Dive into Python 3: The Fore­ward”
• The Python Stan­dard Library by Exam­ple by Doug Hell­mann– Again, I was lucky to write the fore­ward for this. You can read the full fore­ward on Safari Books Online
• Nat­ural Lan­guage Pro­cess­ing with Python — This was a big job — I was a tech­ni­cal reviewer for this.

Other Blogs

I’ve writ­ten a bit “else­where” — here’s a small col­lec­tion of posts from other places:

• The PyCon Blog — obvi­ously, being pretty heav­ily involved with PyCon — I’ve writ­ten a bit for the PyCon blog(s) (See the 2011 spe­cific blog as well).
• The Nasuni Cor­po­ra­tion blog — as an employee, I’ve been lucky to write quite a few blog posts for the Pub­lic blog. Here’s a selec­tion of the “best of” that I’ve posted:
  • What Hap­pens when the Cloud Goes Down?
  • Encryp­tion Keys, User Data and Subpoenas
  • The Tax­on­omy of the New IT Ecosys­tem: IT as a Service
  • Pri­vate vs. Pub­lic Clouds Part I: The Five Key Attrib­utes of the Cloud
  • Pri­vate vs. Pub­lic Clouds Part II: Defin­ing Pub­lic and Pri­vate Clouds
  • Pri­vate vs. Pub­lic Clouds Part III: Which Cloud Stor­age Option is best for You?