Catherine: pyOraGeek

Mel Chua , I, the team from the Boston Python Workshop , and IndyPy are all working together to bring about the Indianapolis Python Worksho...

Best. PyCon. Ever. And since PyCon is like my Christmas (in the 5-year-old sense: "I get new toys to play with!"), that's ex...

I think I need to create a script that 1. Scans my gmail inbox for any mail whose subject line uses ALL CAPS and which urges me to forward i...

Hi, Python students from Saturday! Hope you enjoyed the class, and thanks for your patience as we struggled with wireless issues. Here...

When I teach Python, I usually include a slide or two about Python's importance and growth. At this point, that's begun to feel unn...

This Saturday (Feb 18, 2012), Sinclair Community College in Dayton will host Python: Programming is Fun Again , a two-hour introduction to t...

With seven lines of code, you can plug HTSQL into a web application platform like Flask . Yes, I know that you know SQLAlchemy already; th...

At Dayton Dynamic Languages last night, we watched a great video, "Git for Ages 4 and Up" . ("WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD - Sma...

Getting used to MySQL has been a real challenge for me. Most everything I know about databases is backward in this MySQL world. In the REAL...

HTSQL slides Thanks to the great audiences at my HTSQL talks at Ohio Linuxfest and Dayton IEEE! (And to the folks who will come see me at C...

I'll be speaking on HTSQL this Saturday at Columbus Code Camp . It was a great event last year, and I'm expecting even better this ...

As I mentioned in my OLF talk, setting up HTSQL is crazy-easy. HTRAF, however - the library that lets you do the gorgeous graphics - takes a...

Thanks to my Ohio Linuxfest audience for your attention and interest! My slides from yesterday are posted: Your Database, Exposed: HTSQL S...

I feel bad for not blogging after PyOhio. I just have trouble finding words. Along with PyCon, it's a sort of family reunion for me. B...

Searching for ways to dump CSV from a MS SQL Server brings up recommendations to buy various third-party tools. Excuse me? Buy tools for...

A life history of unforgettable moments of clarity: 1983: Jesus 1994: Special relativity 2011: Analytic functions I've known for a long ...

We interrupt this blog with a message from my sponsor. One of the cool things about working at KACE is helping make a product that people ...

Tom Kyte of asktom.oracle.com is coming to Dayton on July 14! This is crazy-big for Dayton. Tom is one of the most amazing Oracle experts o...

Thanks and congratulations to Lord Drachenblut and the rest of the volunteer crew for putting on Indiana LinuxFest ! They did a great job. ...

First off, thanks to everybody who was at my Python intro at Millenicon. You can find the talk materials at http://catherinedevlin.pythonee...