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February 2006

Pycon2006 Tutorial Recap

2006.02.28 Tue 10:10 P GMT-07

I attended the tutorials the first day of Pycon. The first one I attended was Python 102. I guess I figured it would be more like 302, so there wasn't much new. Since I'm still basically programming in the

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The missing Pycon presentation...

2006.02.28 Tue 9:51 P GMT-07

This screencast should've been a presentation at Pycon. It does a relatively decent job comparing and constrasting J2EE, ROR, Zope, TG, and Django. I talked to a handful of people at Pycon who said they would've enjoyed a panel discussion with the

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Mashupcamp - Recap

2006.02.21 Tue 9:36 P GMT-07

Here's my recap of Mashupcamp. My definition of a mashup hasn't really changed since the camp has ended. I would define a mashup as a webpage consuming non-native webservices (one of which is preferably googlemaps) which may be screenscraped or pro

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Mashupcamp - Screenscraping

2006.02.20 Mon 2:44 P GMT-07

One of the session's I've attended was by Adrian Holovarty on Screen Scraping. Adrian (of Django fame) made chicago crime to help the citizens of Chicago. Citizen ICAM, police department site that has a database of crimes but is not user friendly

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OSBC - Nick Carr - OS and the utility revolution

2006.02.20 Mon 10:29 A GMT-07

I was at OSBC last week, manning the SpikeSource booth and was able to slip into Nick Carr's keynote. Nick Carr basically compared IT today to the state of electicity in factories in the early 1900s. During that time factories had their internal

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Gentoo on IBM Thinkpad R52....

2006.02.20 Mon 9:39 A GMT-07

I recently bought a Thinkpad R52. The first thing I did was install gentoo. So far I'm pretty impressed. The R52 doesn't have fancy features, but it has all the basics. I was deliberating whether to wait for the core duo lapto

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Python in Startups (SDForum)

2006.02.02 Thu 10:58 A GMT-07

There was another portion of the SDForum meeting titled "Building your startup using Python". It was moderated by the creator of BitTorrent, Braham Cohen and had Steve Kirscho (CEO Propel), Francis Kelly (Founder Loomia), and Peter Ya

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