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Python Special Interest Group: July 27th, Cole Tuininga on Myghty

By Ted Roche on July 21, 2006 in OpenSource, Python

On the Python-Talk mailing list, Bill Sconce of the GNHLUG PySIG announces the July meeting:

“The next meeting of the New Hampshire PySIG will be one week from
tonight — the 27th of July, 7:00 PM at the usual fine place, the
Amoskeag Business Incubator.”

“Our topics will be everything that's fair game to Python, including
a report by Bill on the Northeast Linux Symposium, where Python RULED,
and a remarkable development sprint by Jeff Elkner's students.”

“Our featured speaker will be Cole Tuininga, a founding member of PySIG, who knows a lot about “other languages” as well as Python, and who will tell us about Myghty.”

New web site to bookmark: CMSMatrix

By Ted Roche on June 21, 2006 in LAMP, Linux, MySQL, OpenSource, Python, Technology

I never fail to pick up at least one great tip or idea from every meeting I attend, and the Upper Valley Computer Industry Association was no exception. This tip: CMS Matrix, a site comparing the features of a huge number of competing content management systems out there. Like that other Matrix, the problem with Open Source is … choice. Not too many choices, but many. This site helps narrow it down.

Accompanying me on the trip: an audiocast of Doc Searls' wrap-up at the Syndicate 05 conference. Good stuff!

New Dabo screencast

By Ted Roche on June 9, 2006 in Python

Ed Leafe posts: “I've just posted a new screencast. This one is different than the others, in that its intent is not to show you what you can do with Dabo. Instead, it shows a little bit of what goes into Dabo classes, and perhaps might help people get familiar with how our stuff works. For those who are new to Python, too, it may also show some elements of Python with which they may not be familiar. At worst, it's me rambling on for 13 minutes or so. ;-)”

http://leafe.com/screencasts/addproperty.html

“A member of the dabo-users list asked how to force the case of characters in a textbox, and while it was certainly possible by coding, I thought that such things should be built-in to the text controls. The screencast is sort of looking over my shoulder as I add that feature to the Dabo base class textbox.”

Ed Leafe screencasts the dabo AppWizard

By Ted Roche on May 30, 2006 in Python

Ed Leafe posts: “Some of you have seen the Dabo AppWizard before, but for those who haven’t, here’s a screencast that shows what you can do…”

SummerOfCode – PythonInfo Wiki

By Ted Roche on May 27, 2006 in OpenSource, Python, Technology

SummerOfCode – PythonInfo Wiki [link removed – ted] Google has announced the Summer of Code projects. This page highlights a bunch of cool Python projects. Keep an eye on ’em!

Chris Schmidt to speak at Where 2.0

By Ted Roche on May 12, 2006 in LAMP, Linux, OpenSource, Python

On his home page, Chris Schmidt announces, “I’m going to be giving a lightning talk called ‘Geolocation with GSM Cells’ at O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 conference, on June 14th, 2006.” Chris is a regular at GNHLUG’s Nashua and PySIG chapters.

Congratulations!

New Hampshire Python SIG tomorrow night

By Ted Roche on April 26, 2006 in Python

On the Python announcement list, Bill Sconce posts: “The next meeting of the Greater New Hampshire Python & Milk/ Cookies SIG will be tomorrow night — Thursday, April 27th, at the Amoskeag Business Incubator, 7:00 P.M. (the usual place, the usual time).”

“Also, we have a special program. Paul Koning, who had never used Python until recently, will tell us about his first, “getting to know Python” programming experience. Something just a little bit challenging: rewriting PDP-11 TECO.”

“It should be an interesting evening, especially to hear about what went well (or not) in learning a new language in such an environment. Can you imagine writing TECO as your exercise to learn C++? (And of course, now we have TECO for Linux. And for the Mac. And for everything else wherever Python runs.)”

“We’ll also have our usual Q&A, and Python trivia. Because several people asked us about Python at LinuxWorld last week we’ll include some material for newbies. (Please be thinking about that – should we have a newbies segment EVERY meeting?)”

WHO: New Hampshire Python Special Interest Group

WHERE: Amoskeag Business Incubator, 33 South Commercial Street, Manchester, NH
Travel directions

WHEN: The fourth Thursday of each month at 7 PM, holidays allowing

WHAT: Paul Koning, TECO in Python, General Python Q&A

Hope to see you there!

Dabo Runtime Engine For Windows 0.6.2 released

By Ted Roche on March 30, 2006 in LAMP, Linux, Microsoft, MySQL, OpenSource, Python

Ed Leafe announced today: “The Dabo Runtime Engine for Windows is a self-contained environment that allows you to run Dabo on Windows without having to first install all of the requirements. It comes with its own version of Python 2.4.2, wxPython 2.6.3.0, MySQLdb 1.2.0, kinterbasdb 3.2.0a1, ReportLab v.2463, and several other modules used in Dabo.”

Check out dabo at http://www.dabodev.com. Dabo is a rich-client application framework for data-centric applications. Written in Python, it provides multiple database support, WinTel, MacOSX, Linux front ends, and some remarkable capabilities. While the entire dabo projects is at version 0.6.2, Ed says that the visual tools are around 0.5 while the actual framework is 1.0+.

Ed Leafe: State of the Dabo presentation at PyCon video online

By Ted Roche on March 4, 2006 in OpenSource, Python

Over at leafe.com, Ed Leafe posts:

“Last week at PyCon I gave a session on The State of Dabo, and we recorded it with a video camera located in the back of the room. So yeah, we have a recording, but both the video and audio are less than optimal. Still, if you’d like to see it, I’m making the video available.”

“Due to the large file size, I won’t be serving it directly from my servers. I’ve created BitTorrent files that will allow everyone to share the bandwidth and make things go much more smoothly. The session is broken up into 3 parts, so here are the URLs for each of the torrents:”

http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=1580&name=pycon2006-dabo1.mov.torrent
http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=1581&name=pycon2006-dabo2.mov.torrent
http://linuxtracker.org/download.php?id=1582&name=pycon2006-dabo3.mov.torrent

“If you’re not familiar with the way that BitTorrent works, keep in mind that once you have the complete file, *don’t* close your torrent client. Instead, leave it running, which will help speed up downloading for others. The more people connected to these torrents,
the faster everyone gets a copy!”

I’ll be hosting a couple of BitTorrent seeds here over the weekend, so grab it while you can!

The State of Dabo, 2006

By Ted Roche on February 24, 2006 in OpenSource, Python

Ed Leafe, well-known in the FoxPro community as a former MVP and proprietor of the ProFox mailing list and OpenTech web sites, is speaking this weekend at the U.S. Python Conference on “The State of Dabo, Where we’re at, February 2006.” For those who haven’t seen it yet, dabo is a framework for rich-client, multi-tier, database-agnostic software development, similar to what Visual FoxPro promised. dabo runs on Mac OS X, Linux and Windows. The white paper looks great! At PyCon last year, Ed’s presentations were ranked highly. Wishing him great success this year as well!

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