Today is my birthday and Doro made this nice birthday cake with a fine binary display of my age for me. I also got a new big coffee cup.

Our son Raphael insisted on Smarties on daddy's birthday cake and their colors go nicely with the cake and the coffee cup.

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On July 22nd my Debian account jandd has been created after 308 days in the NM process.

Thanks a lot to all who have contributed to this achievement and to who I had the privilege to work with.

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I had to stay at home this week due to illness. I developed a small web application for the Debian community to fill the time with something useful besides having some time with Doro and the children.

The Debian developer portfolio service is available to interested Debian developers and package maintainers and gives them the ability to generate personalized links for their activities regarding the Debian project as HTML or JSON output. The service has been inspired by Stefano Zacchiroli's DDPortfolio page in the Debian Wiki. Its source code is available under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License.

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Four months ago I developed a nice little Python script to have a replacement for split-logfile and rotatelogs that fits better to the external logrotate approach of my web server. The resulting vlogsplitter is available at http://www.dittberner.info/projects/servertools/wiki/vlogsplitter.

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The october issue of the Python Magazine [1] released today contains my article "Versioning your database with sqlalchemy-migrate" as a feature. The article is written in tutorial style and describes the management of database schemas using sqlalchemy-migrate with examples.

[1] http://pymag.phparch.com/c/issue/view/83

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I released version 0.7.0 of my GIMP plugin btn4ws (Buttons for websites). This release is a complete reimplementation. Python is now used as implementation language instead of Perl. The plugin has a new user interface and works with current GIMP versions (testet with GIMP 2.4.3). You may download the plugin at http://www.dittberner.info/projects/btn4ws/attachment/wiki/Downloads/btn.... The project page is available at http://www.dittberner.info/projects/btn4ws/.

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