The morning keynote for day 2 of PyCon was given by Adele Goldberg. Unfortunately I overslept this morning and missed the first half of the talk1. Goldberg’s topic was eLearning, and the state of computing in education today. My background working in education is very different from the schools she was talking [...]
Lunch: tasty “Mexican” food, including those tasty cinnamon-sugar coated crunchy-chewy desserty things. Lots of those.
And after lunch, it’s fun with Python on the Web. The first afternoon talk was Ian Bicking’s Everything You Wanted to Know About WSGI but were Afraid to Ask. OK, that’s just my title; it’s really WSGI: An [...]
So two days ago I launched the first Developer Preview of ccPublisher 2 for Linux, promising Windows and Mac OS X builds “within the day.” It’s been two days, they’re not uploaded, what’s going on? Funny you should ask. It actually has a lot to do with something else that’s been generating a [...]
I just saw on the Python Daily URL that ZConfig 2.0 is out. I migrated our internal backup software to ZConfig from Python’s included ConfigParser over the summer after cursing one too many times at it’s inability to do intelligent type checking. While it was a pain in the ass to create the [...]
Stoa is a project I work on for my day job; a Zope-based Student Information System we use at the school for everthing from scheduling and attendance to posting online content for courses. Stoa uses XML for a few internal tasks, and right now it uses a module I wrote to do the handling. [...]
