EuroPython 2008: Timetable Published

2008-06-13 Thread Paul Boddie
The conference timetable for EuroPython 2008 has now been published, describing the talk and activity schedule for the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of the conference week (Monday 7th July until Saturday 12th July, with sprints taking place from Thursday until Saturday). The authors of the acce

EuroPython 2008: Talk Submissions Extension plus Early Registration Reminder

2008-05-28 Thread Paul Boddie
First of all, a reminder to those of you considering registering for EuroPython 2008, held in Vilnius, Lithuania from 7th to 12th July (talks from 7th to 9th, sprints from 10th to 12th): the early registration deadline is on Saturday 31st May, and if you would like to take advantage of the reduc

EuroPython 2008: Registration is Open

2008-05-18 Thread Paul Boddie
At last, registration for EuroPython 2008 (the European conference for the communities around Python) is now open! Take a look at the registration page on the EuroPython Web site for full details: http://www.europython.org/Registration The usual generous discount on fees is offered for registra

EuroPython 2008: Call for Participation

2008-04-17 Thread Paul Boddie
Book Monday 7th July to Wednesday 9th July 2008 in your calendar! EuroPython 2008, the European conference for the communities around Python, including the Zope and Plone communities, will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania. Last year's conference was a great success, featuring a variety of talks, e

ANNOUNCE: pprocess 0.3

2007-09-16 Thread Paul Boddie
Announcing the release of pprocess 0.3 (previously known as parallel/ pprocess), available from... http://www.python.org/pypi/pprocess/0.3 Note that only POSIX-like platforms are supported in this release, although improvements in portability and all other areas are welcome. What is it?

EuroPython 2007: The final week of online registration!

2007-06-25 Thread Paul Boddie
The final week of EuroPython online registration is here, with registration via the conference Web site ending on Monday 2nd July. EuroPython 2007 will take place in Vilnius, Lithuania on Monday 9th, Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th July. More information on registration can be found here: * http

EuroPython 2007: Registration is Open!

2007-05-23 Thread Paul Boddie
Registration is now open for EuroPython 2007: the European Python and Zope Conference, taking place this year in Vilnius, Lithuania from Monday 9th July to Wednesday 11th July. Once again, we thank supporters of EuroPython for their patience, and encourage early registration by offering the usual

Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 18)

2006-12-18 Thread Paul Boddie
QOTW: "c.l.python is just a small speck at the outer parts of the python universe. most python programmers don't even read this newsgroup, except, perhaps, when they stumble upon it via a search engine." -- Fredrik Lundh (on comp.lang.python, prompting the editor to offer greetings to those of you

Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 11)

2006-12-12 Thread Paul Boddie
QOTW: "I still want to keep compile time type checking to make sure I don't make any mistakes." "Sounds like you want two wives, but I'm pretty sure polygamy gets a checkbox in the naughty category on Santa's list" -- George Jempty (commenting on "Dear Open Source Santa," by Paul Browne) http

Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Dec 4)

2006-12-04 Thread Paul Boddie
QOTW: "We of all people should understand Worse Is Better. And I forgot to mention a little flash in the pan called Python, for which Tkinter (2+2 left as an exercise) is the GUI of choice." - Ken Tilton (on comp.lang.lisp, perhaps stretching the meaning of "of choice" somewhat) http://groups.

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 27)

2006-11-27 Thread Paul Boddie
QOTW: "Given these criteria, my recommendations for a first programming language would be Python or Scheme." - Peter Norvig (some time ago, but referenced on comp.lang.lisp this week) http://www.norvig.com/21-days.html "however if you want more visual effect with less hassle, consider learnin

ANN: WebStack 1.0 released

2005-10-21 Thread Paul Boddie
WebStack 1.0 has finally been released! What is it? --- >From the introductory text: WebStack is a package which provides a simple, common API for Python Web applications, allowing such applications to run within many different environments with virtually no changes to application code.

WebStack 0.9

2005-05-02 Thread Paul Boddie
Announcing release 0.9 of WebStack - a common API for Python Web applications. Applications written using the WebStack API can be deployed on the following servers and frameworks: BaseHTTPRequestHandler, CGI, Jython/Java Servlet API, mod_python, Twisted, Webware, WSGI and Zope 2. It should therefo