Catherine: pyOraGeek

There's a whole class of programs called "rules engines". The idea is to remove the details of a process from the hard-code o...

As if I need a new ambition, I've got an itch to create and teach a course called "Computer Programming for Secretaries". Sin...

Given a choice between spending an hour doing a task manually, or spending three hours writing a program to do it automatically... a geek wi...

Pardon, oh Citizens of the World who read this, while I go regional for a moment and speak as a Dayton-area resident on news almost certainl...

I've got an article in this month's Python Magazine : PyOhio: Planning and Running a Regional Python Miniconference . I try to cove...

I've served as PyCon 's volunteer publicity chair the past two years. This year, at my request, the attendee survey had the questio...

My grandfather was an amazing man. He seemed to know every living soul in Duluth, Minnesota. He never forgot a face. I didn't inherit ...

Everybody knows that open-source software documentation sucks. It doesn't, however, suck nearly as much as big-company proprietary soft...

I always feel guilty using this blog as my LazyWeb, but it works really well, so here we go again... I'm trying out Oracle Enterprise Li...

I've created a page at speakerrate.com for myself: SpeakerRate profile ... and populated it with my two upcoming talks. If you want to u...

(prompted by discussion of porn use at GoGaRuCo - see here , here ) Quick thought: It's not that the community needs to ensure offensive...

It seems I'm always coming across new uses for reStructuredText , the plaintext format that goes everywhere. (Really, more of a "s...

We interrupt this blog with a special message from our sponsor. My friend James has a new business, Two Bears Chocolates , handmaking organi...

Yes, yes. Oracle is buying Sun, which owns MySQL and Java. No, this is not the end of MySQL. You're being silly. Oracle is about as o...

If you haven't heard about #amazonfail, this article will catch you up quickly. 1. It's a good reminder that giving market dominanc...

If you're anywhere near Michigan, you need to consider Penguicon. It's an open-source software conference! It's a science-fict...

The PyOhio Call for Proposals has been issued! PyOhio 2009 takes place July 25-26, 2009 at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio ...

geekspeakr.com: connecting tech women speakers with event organizers Many organisers of technical conferences, meetups, and dinners want to ...

I gave a five-minute Lightning Talk on sqlpython on Saturday. I hoped it would pique the interest of some people who sometimes use Oracle,...

This morning's lightning talk on sqlpython was an example of what's so great about PyCon - it instantly really good suggestions ab...