Archive for the 'pycon' Category

PyCon: Talk to people.

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

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 […]

ExoTagging with SQLAlchemy

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

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 […]

PyCon: Testing Tools Panel

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

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?

Omaha Python Users Group

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

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 […]