Catherine: pyOraGeek

My boss has been supportive of my love for open-source, but I've never really been able to make him understand what makes it commerciall...

cmd2 0.4 has been released. Its biggest new feature is transcript-based testing . Basically, you can write a test suite for your cmd2-bas...

We are so going to play this game at PyCon. Maybe I'll go to a talk or two, too. Between games.

I've come across two other SQL command-line clients lately, both written in Python: pysql , like sqlpython , is for Oracle only. sqlcmd ...

In my ongoing campaign to teach Python to every multicellular organism in Ohio, I'm bringing my Smash, Crash, Kaboom Course in Python (y...

I have to admit, the first time I heard about people mistrusting computerized voting, I just felt amused. Silly Luddites , I thought. Afte...

This year, PyOhio decided to buy table space in the nonprofit exhibitors' area of Ohio LinuxFest to publicize PyOhio (as well as PyCon...

Thanks to my Ohio LinuxFest audience for learning some Python with me! The talk materials are here . Here's the " Resources for Py...

(plus a carriage return) One of the ideas I most gleefully stole from YASQL for sqlpython is special terminators, sequences like \g and \...

PyOhio is getting a table at Ohio LinuxFest to advertise PyOhio and Python in general. We're going to set up a computer running demons...

Ohio LinuxFest isn't the only major geeky event coming up in our area. Also check out: the Miami Valley Joint Societies meeting : more...

It's working! The Geek Event Finder on Google App Engine! Go play! In some ways, the Google App Engine is a dream. Not thinking abou...

Ohio LinuxFest is Oct. 11 - one month from today! It's free, it's fabulous. Missing it would be like missing your own birthday. G...

This was supposed to be the blog entry where I would announce the Geek Event Aggregator's successful port to Google App Engine. (sigh) I...

I often need to download documentation for offline use. Online docs typically come as a finely branched tree of separate .html files; somet...

I got my xkcd regex skirt as a birthday present (funny what subtle hints like "this is exactly what I want for my birthday please pleas...

It's all very well to invite newbies to come to your Linux group, but you're not going to get really new people that way. Coming to...

Not everything at PyOhio was perfect, of course. In particular, we were frustrated that we didn't get more participation in the Open Sp...

Wow. PyOhio went great . I have so much to say, I hardly know where to start. Expect multiple posts. The hope was to duplicate some of th...

PyOhio is Saturday, July 26! Please register right away - it helps us schedule talks properly and guarantees you entry, food, and swag. Wh...