PyCon: Talk to people.

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Feb 272007
 

Ned Batchelder blogged some good PyCon advice tonight, “Talk to people.” I completely agree with him on that point.

This was my second PyCon and I spoke to a vastly larger group of people than I did when I attend PyCon 2002. While I did say Hello to a number, the one real conversation I had was with Tim Peters. This year I wasn’t the least bit shy about introducing myself and talking to others. I met a number of great people who just happen to be excellent pythonistas. There was Chris and Ted from ChiPy, Alvin from San Francisco, Christian Tismer, Mark Ramm, Michael Foord, Alex, Ben, Doug (nice job on the pycon schedule) and many, many more. I’ll be blogging about a number of these conversations as time goes on.

 Posted by JeffH at 12:20 am

ExoTagging with SQLAlchemy

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Feb 242007
 

ExoTagging
After listening to the wonderful things being said about SQLAlchemy at PyCon, I wondered if the following idiom could be implemented as a Domain Object with SQLAlchemy.

Often we have legacy data that we have read only access, to which we need to associate additional meta information. Before this has always meant that the application had to be aware of the relationship of the meta data record in the ExoTagging DB and how to map it to the legacy read-only data. If we could map the two into a single Domain Object it would make are apps a lot cleaner. I spoke to Mark Ramm and he believed that it would be possible and in fact it might even be easy although he hadn’t attempted it before.

I call the idiom ExoTagging because it is logically quite like the idea of Tags, except that tags are kept in a table that resides in a database that is separate from the data that is being tagged. Hence Exo-Tag.

Has anyone else already implemented something like this with SQLAlchemy, if so would you mind sharing your experiences?

 Posted by JeffH at 4:15 pm

PyCon: Testing Tools Panel

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Feb 242007
 

2 Questions that I wished that were asked of the Panel:

1) Why PyChecker given PyLint? Could you contrast the two tools?

2) For those utilities that test user facing web applications, twill, mechanize, etc, Why are they better than Selenium?

 Posted by JeffH at 1:21 pm

Omaha Python Users Group

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Feb 242007
 

I believe that it is time to resurrect the Omaha Python Users Group. I attended that Python Advocacy meeting on Day 1 of PyCon and listened to Jeff Rush and then talked to the leader of ChiPy, Chris McAvoy. There is an advocacy open session tonight @9pm after the OLPC show and tell session. I am hoping to work with others there to set up a system to share web resources, mailing list, website, etc between users groups. People should be able to go to the python site and “Find a local users Group”. The users groups could video tape speakers, and then share those videos for use at other user group meetings and for advocacy in general. A central point for available speakers and a centralized place for companies like O’Reilly, to offer products, books, and other give-aways that could be requested and used by the different users groups.

 Posted by JeffH at 10:50 am
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