Catherine: pyOraGeek

In Dayton, we don't have a dedicated Python user group; instead, we have the Dynamic Languages User Group . I always struggle to explai...

Q . What's wrong with this message? A . The window that it pops up in doesn't support copy-and-paste (on Fedora 13, at least). If y...

Ian wished for loop syntax examples in the Templating Engine Cookoff , so I just added them. And none of you Django programmers have given ...

Richard Jones alerted me to Martin Blais' dbapiext.py , and I like it very much. Richard's post focuses on the improvements to bind...

Thanks to the wonderful audience at my Ren'Py talk. Your patience and your questions got us through the painful time of waiting for the...

DAY-O, the Dayton Oracle user group, is meeting May 4 - a week from this Tuesday. We've got a full-day meeting planned with lots of gre...

Jesse Noller wants to know what's holding you back from working on Python. He's looking to make the process of contributing to Pytho...

Pythonic PL/SQL exists! https://code.launchpad.net/~catherine-devlin/pythonic-plsql/trunk I imagine it will grow in fits and starts as my j...

I'm itching to begin creating a bunch of PL/SQL packages that will emulate certain handy Python features. Before I sink too much time i...

There are more Python string templating engines in the world than homemade chili recipes. Which is tastiest? Let's have a cookoff! We ...

Ren'Py: A Visual Novel Engine Computer gaming, anime/manga, Python programming, fiction writing: Ren'Py is everything you love abou...

PyOhio's http://www.pyohio.org/CallForProposals is out, due May 10. Let your imagination run wild; PyOhio is what we make it, no more ...

daytontechevents.com A free service aggregating information about tech events in Dayton There's too much geeky awesomeness going on in t...

File this one under "Daydreaming". There are lots of small, local nonprofit organizations that really can't afford to do their...

Facundo Batista and I received the 4th-quarter Python Software Foundation Community Service Awards! I actually heard about it several days ...

Many thanks to the audience at my PyCon cmd/cmd2 talk for your interest and enthusiasm! It was my first full-scale PyCon presentation and ...

I'm happy about Computer Engineer Barbie . No doll will save the world, but every little bit helps. It's annoying, though, that som...

First off: PyCon online registration ends TODAY. Go do it NOW. I intend to show off sqlpython at PyCon. Version 1.7 works with postgreSQ...

You're scaring me! In the last couple months, we've learned that the new Sun will be going forward without Frank Wierzbicki , the Jy...

Ironically, the only talk that disappointed me at all at CodeMash was... mine . I thought my delivery was a little rough - pretty much beca...