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There’s a lot of excitement on the ClePy mailing list about trying to bring PyCon to Cleveland in 2010. David Stanek is leading the charge, getting folks talking, and planning, and motivated.
Clevelanders who want to help out bringing Python’s premier conference to our fair city should head on over to the bid page on […]

I missed the September ClePy meeting because I was too busy helping my wife fork a child process (there seems to be an awful lot of that going around the Python community lately, based on what I’ve seen on the Planet feeds–something in the water, perhaps?). But I hear that Brian Beck put together […]

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At tonight’s (now yesterday’s) ClePy meeting, special guest presenter Brian Fitzpatrick, Engineer Manager for Google’s Chicago office, gave a talk entitled “Google, Bigtable, and Scalable Version Control.” I’d heard a bit about how GFS and Bigtable work before at a previous […]

I’m really excited by the amount of progress I’ve made over the last couple of weekends, hacking away at what for now is known as Shindig, a group management blog/calendar app written against TurboGears. Its primary purpose is to be something easier and faster for me to maintain than ClePy’s current Plone site. […]

We had a shorter and lighter ClePy meeting tonight, which ended up working out just fine. Dan Buch gave an entertaining talk on how he fell into and out of love with Grok, a frameworkish sort of thing for Zope 3. We had a pretty informal discussion of the state of things, in […]

At tonight’s ClePy meeting, Christian Wyglendowski gave us an introduction to the Bazaar version control system (which seems light and simple enough that I might not have to overcome the inertia that I seem to find with Subversion), and Gary Bernhardt did a fun presentation on REST and his RESTdb project.
Christian also gave away a […]

In a very special episode of ClePy, we were joined by guest star Drew Robbins, a “Developer Evangelist” from Microsoft. Drew gave us an overview of IronPython, did a number of live demos, and fielded a wide array of “interactivity” from the group. He also gave away a Zune using Python’s random.randint() […]

At tonight’s ClePy meeting, Ralph Heimburger presented an overview of ReportLab, which makes programmatic generation of PDF’s wicked easy, and Matt Gibberman gave us an introduction to Paramiko, which brings ssh2 into your Python toolkit. Both look like really great libraries, and I look forward to tinkering with them at some point.
We hope to […]

At tonight’s ClePy meeting, I gave a test run of my PyCon 2007 presentation, Dateutil to the Rescue! I got some good feedback (among other things, it’s way too long for a 30-minute slot, definitely the better form of the length-of-presentation problem), and look forward to tuning it up before delivering it in front […]

Bleah. Totally run down. Stressed out, burned out, and all-around fried. But still clinging desperately to life in the hopes that it might all settle down at some point. (It has to settle down, right?)
Thanks to a bumper crop of ragweed, I have spent the last two weeks wanting to claw […]