Catherine: pyOraGeek

PyOhio a regional Python miniconference Ohio had a good representation at PyCon, and we agreed that the time has come. http://pyohio.org ann...

I got home from PyCon last night, having stayed for sprints for the first time (I'll blog about that later). It was amazing. One of the...

PyCon is coming to Cleveland in 2010! OK, I understand there are some other places bidding to host PyCon - some podunk towns like San Franci...

Yesterday, I was wondering whether this year's PyCon was really turning out to be as amazing as its attendance suggested. I'm not wo...

I'm a habitual early adopter. For instance, I moved my production databases to Oracle 11g weeks ago. So, naturally, I had to try the n...

Over one thousand registrations are in the system for PyCon 2008 . Over 2**10, actually. Amazing! After exulting a bit over that kind of g...

As far as I know, the Cheese Shop didn't have any way to handle fractions and mixed numbers... until now. Introducing mixed . >>...

I really enjoyed last year's PenguiCon - science fiction geekery and FOSS geekery make a surprisingly nice combination, with the SF peop...

I'm expecting to be in Washington D.C. on April 22-23, so imagine my delight when I learned of a " Military Open Source Software Co...

Mercurial won't let me clone into an existing directory. This is a problem when trying to put (only) a subset of files under version co...

At last, it's time for DAY-O to meet! Meeting of Dayton-Oracle SIG (DAY-O) March 10, 2008, 5:30 pm A hands-on, cooper...

The forbidden-content blocker at my worksite is more stupid than the one at your worksite. Doubt me? "Computing/Internet" is one...

If you're near Dayton, and you have a child, or know a child, or can find a child, or feel like a child, then you really need to get to ...

So far, I've taken my smashing-planets introduction to Python to two groups of college students: the Wright State chapter of ACM and an...

I wish I knew more about networking. I have a technical need that I can barely describe, much less name. For our new Dayton Oracle SIG , we...

CODE Hacker for the World, Programming Tool Maker, Stacker of w00t, Player with Rails and the Nation's Error Handler, SourceForge, Chees...

I was alarmed to find that many of the attendees at CodeMash didn't know that PyCon 2008 will be in Chicago - right here in our beloved...

Thanks, everybody, for another great CodeMash - even better than last year! More babbling about it will follow when I have time, As promis...

cmd is a Python Standard Library module for constructing command-prompt applications. It's very easy to use - just subclass its Cmd t...

I've told several people that I would post the code for the Geek Event Aggregator "as soon as I get it cleaned up". Today, I s...