Catherine: pyOraGeek

Fire up a program like Eclipse or Visual Studio and start a new project. Blam! It creates a dense forest of code files, text files, config...

Shortly after semi-finishing pyparsing_helper , I realized that it's really not needed, because there's a tool called Reinteract th...

From now on, before spending any significant money on anything, I will test their customer service phone number. If I cannot get to a human...

Ah, so many ways to learn from each other. Formal conferences and meetings. "Eyes-front" presentations. Getting together with the...

I'm back from CodeMash ! I got a lot of great ideas, and I especially liked Wednesday's CodeJam, where I started building pyparsing...

Items shipped on December 30, 2008: Delivery estimate: January 6, 2009 1 package via USPS 1 of: One ...

I bought the domain name for nerdstogether.org from 1and1.com, but I'm now realizing that domain name ownership isn't as straightfor...

Happy New Year! And a happy new name for The Application Formerly Known As Geek Event Aggregator (or geekeventfinder). Say hello to nerdst...

" Kodos for pyparsing " Perhaps if I say it, with earnest conviction, it will come into existence. Perhaps if I intone it repeate...

Whoo! My talk got accepted at IOUG Collaborate ! Congratulations! Your Technical Session (60-minute) proposal below has been accepted by th...

I feel a gradually growing sense of nervousness and guilt over the growing trail of accounts I have opened on various web-based services, th...

When a product is described as, "Easy to use - requires no programming!", run. Run, and don't look back. That's been my r...

Yay for Python 3.0! You knew I had to say that. I'm not actually using 3.0 or even 2.6 very seriously yet, though Brandon Rhodes showe...

A different topic today, though still with an open-source tie-in. I've never seen anybody offering free audiobook CDs of the Bible. The...

In recent months, many people considering taking up Python have asked me what Python beginners should do about the release of Python 3.0. H...

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...