PyCon 2008 in Chicago

It looks like I’ll be making another trip to to Chicago next year. The bid looks great. My little brother goes to school in Chicago so maybe I’ll be able to get him to check it out.

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February 27, 2007 | Filed Under pycon | Comments 

PyCon 2007: One Laptop Per Child

The first day’s keynote described a project called One Laptop Per Child. Ivan Krsti? gave a very inspiring presentation. The idea is to create low cost, highly cool hardward that can be distributed to countries where children have less access to information. The laptop is not designed for M$ Office type applications, but rather applications of learning.

I want one for my kids! I have been debating wether or not I want to buy my 5 year old a new laptop. This would be a great alternative. Unfortunately they are a non-profit and are not yet ready to commercialize this.

On the other hand I have been inspired enough to want to help develop the Python software that powers the device. Now it is just a matter of finding the time…

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February 23, 2007 | Filed Under python, pycon | Comments 

Source Code Searching Made Easy

Google has a site that is specifically designed to search source code. Search results are relevant or at least in source code, and you can use regular expressions. Very ninja!

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February 15, 2007 | Filed Under links | Comments 

Clepy February Meeting Recap

We had roughly 13 members brave the freezing cold Ohio weather for 2 talks. Mike Pirnat gave a test run of his upcoming PyCon talk on DateUtil. This module is really sweet when you have to deal with dates and recurrence rules. Mike Nugent gave a talk about regular expressions. The focus was about using them in Python, but he had some backgound information that got me thinking. I’ll post links if/when i get them.

The official meeting notes are here.

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February 6, 2007 | Filed Under python, clepy | Comments 

Link: Open Source BPM

This seems like it is a really good thing for Open Source. Business Process Management is needed by companies of all sizes, but the good software is typically available only to those with a big budget.

I have not taken an in depth look yet, so I won’t vouch for the product. You can read a little more about it in this interview and on their website.

Are there other good Open Source BPM implementations that I am not aware of?

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February 3, 2007 | Filed Under links, enterprise | Comments 

Link: JavaScript Videos By Douglas Crockford

I only had time to watch the first video this morning, but I am eager to see the rest. This Artima post has links to several of Douglas’ video series. YUI Theater has tons of other cool videos.

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February 3, 2007 | Filed Under links, javascript | Comments