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Python "Scripting" at Utah Python, SCALE and PyCON
2009.02.10 Tue 12:17 P GMT-07
import this states that There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. I've written a bit of what I call 'scripts' over the last little while. If you have a continuum of 'stuff' written in python, then scripts would be the st
Interest in python headtracking/wiimote hacking?
2008.12.15 Mon 10:10 P GMT-07
Yea! PyCon 2009 is coming up in the end of March! My brother and I submitted a tutorial for on wiiMote headtracking. Sadly, the tutorial was rejected. We're willing to do a BoF/open space hacking on the subject. If people are interested in this s
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[Pycon 2008] Lasers, Webcams, Wiimotes and Python Video up
2008.04.25 Fri 8:15 A GMT-07
My brother gave a talk about using python to detect lasers with webcams and also demo'd a prototype of a 3d game with wiimote headtracking. For those who missed the preso, there's now a video up.
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[Pycon 2008] Linky linky
2008.03.21 Fri 10:20 A GMT-07
Here's my notes on Pycon this year. I'm going to throw out a collection of links that may or
may not be useful to you. If you weren't able to make the conference, hopefully this list contains a link or two that are new or interesting to you.
elast
[Pycon 2008] Thoughts and Observations
2008.03.17 Mon 11:22 P GMT-07
Here's my thoughts regarding Pycon 2008.
Benefits of conference attending
Face time with virtual friends - Some people/IT shops invest in
established technology provided by big vendors. I've been
somewhat disenchanted by the products (and underly
[Pycon 2008] Managing complexity slides
2008.03.15 Sat 1:00 P GMT-07
Pycon has been real fun so far. The slides from my talk, Managing Complexity can be found here (complexitypycon2008.pdf).
Will try and post thoughts and links thus far sooner (or later).
Pycon2007 observations and thoughts
2007.02.27 Tue 9:56 A GMT-07
They say you know a foreign language pretty well when you start dreaming in it. It's a pretty surreal experience at first. Well, what about when you dream that you are sitting listening to conference talks and the conference is over? (Which happen
Lessons in Open Source from the Django project [pycon]
2007.02.24 Sat 9:59 P GMT-07
I feel a little bad for just posting these notes. But I think they can be useful for others. These are notes learned about running an open source project from the Django project.
Jacob Kaplan Moss - Lessons learned from Django
Arguments for
Testing Tools Panel [pycon]
2007.02.24 Sat 1:12 P GMT-07
Testing Tools Panel
I've blogged about bugs and testing in open source previously, so I was quite interested in this panel. I was surprised because there was little discussion of code coverage, because I think it is quite important for dynamic lang
Web Framework Panel notes [pycon]
2007.02.23 Fri 2:44 P GMT-07
Here's some notes from the web framework panel at Pycon, discussing various attributes of the frameworks and why python tends to have so many frameworks.
Web Framework Panel
Discussion led by Titus Brown featuring:
* Zope - Jim Fulton
* Che
Ivan Krstic and OLPC, software bloat and python [pycon]
2007.02.23 Fri 10:32 A GMT-07
Matt's takeaways
This was a keynote at Pycon2007. Here are my notes. I thought they are somewhat useful in the current form. Perhaps if I get some time, I'll reformat in a more readable form. He mentioned the 2 for 1 program but said that they a
Off to Pycon 2007
2007.02.21 Wed 12:07 A GMT-07
I'm off to Pycon tomorrow. Should be lots of geeky fun.
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
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
