Re: [python-uk] who wants to hire my friend Ian?

2020-07-19 Thread Andy Robinson
Sadly I fear it is a very tough time in the market for anyone looking for work now. Anyone else finding the same? Half our business is consulting - writing reports for people - and to be honest just about every client who had a project planned found their own businesses grinding to a halt in Apr

Re: [python-uk] forgotJS

2019-02-06 Thread Andy Robinson
On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at 16:19, Dave C wrote: > > Hi, > Many Python developers have the need for JavaScript at some point or other so > I thought I'd share a link to my project. It's a series of code snippets > intended as a quick read when returning to JavaScript, and many of the > peculiarities

Re: [python-uk] Data-science flavoured back end engineer required for proptech startup

2017-09-26 Thread Andy Robinson
On 26 September 2017 at 18:38, wrote: > our front end is in Elm I'm impressed. I'd love to hear more about how that's going, if you don't mind sharing general experience... Andy Robinson ReportLab ___ python-uk mailing li

Re: [python-uk] Reviewing third-party packages

2017-07-27 Thread Andy Robinson
On 27 July 2017 at 15:33, S Walker wrote: > I suspect malicious phone-home (and other deliberately malicious security) > stuff would be very difficult to automatically test for Presumably you want to spy on outbound network activity from your test machine, rather than analysing code? - Andy

Re: [python-uk] A stack with better performance than using a list

2017-06-08 Thread Andy Robinson
Are you sure that their test infrastructure was behaving correctly? Is it widely used, day in day out, by thousands, and known to be reliable? Did your colleagues all brag "no problem"? Or is it possible that the whole execution framework threw a momentary wobbly while trying to load up some larg

Re: [python-uk] Online python training for non-programmers

2017-05-05 Thread Andy Robinson
What kind of tasks do you want them to be able to perform? On what OS? Will they interact with version control? As we all know, Python tends to "get out of the way", but learning IDEs and coding habits takes a while, and learning libraries and frameworks takes a lifetime.It's very different

Re: [python-uk] Python Platform Developer - Counter Terrorism

2017-02-15 Thread Andy Robinson
On 15 February 2017 at 22:06, Tom Wright wrote: > The treasury places internal fraud detection and money-laundering detection > responsibilities on financial organisations (hence your bank asking you > three items proving your identify and then refusing to open an account when > you only have two)

Re: [python-uk] Python Platform Developer - Counter Terrorism

2017-02-15 Thread Andy Robinson
Not entirely sure where the "counter terrorism" bit comes in - Andy ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

Re: [python-uk] 2 Principle Engineer roles in London up to £95k

2016-12-08 Thread Andy Robinson
On 8 December 2016 at 09:29, James Broadhead wrote: > Personally, I'd be in favour of #2 - it allows the community to promote > positions internally, but avoids recruiter-mails which seem to trigger so > much ire. It seems to me that the real issue was a tiny number of list members being rude to

Re: [python-uk] Announcing the Yorkshire Inquisition

2016-12-07 Thread Andy Robinson
On 7 December 2016 at 16:14, S Walker wrote: > Darth SW Hey, Darth, fancy being our Brexit negotiator? Or military liaison to the US of A? ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

Re: [python-uk] Announcing the Yorkshire Inquisition

2016-12-07 Thread Andy Robinson
It would actually be quite a good Mailman feature to be able to put a user "on watch" for N days, and prepend a first line to their messages henceforth saying "The Inquisition is watching this user. They need to mind their manners". The 10 minute sin-bin works better in sports than red cards.

Re: [python-uk] Announcing the Yorkshire Inquisition

2016-12-07 Thread Andy Robinson
Hmmm. Seems eminently feasible. https://pythonhosted.org/mailman/src/mailman/docs/8-miles-high.html#basic-messaging-handling-workflow - Andy ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

Re: [python-uk] Announcing the Yorkshire Inquisition

2016-12-07 Thread Andy Robinson
On 7 December 2016 at 13:52, Steve Holden wrote: > Me least of all. Had I been consulted I would have said that I am not a > suitable person to be enforcing CoCs and (in case you didn't get the message > earlier) I agree with Andy that the Python CoC will suffice. It was an attempt at a joke. "Y

Re: [python-uk] Announcing the Yorkshire Inquisition

2016-12-07 Thread Andy Robinson
On 7 December 2016 at 13:36, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > Give the inquisition the power to restrict someone's use of language > features. For instance, in a relatively mild incident, the heretic may > be banned from using for loops for a month, and have to emulate them > using while instead. Hmm. Me

[python-uk] Announcing the Yorkshire Inquisition

2016-12-07 Thread Andy Robinson
I believe I am one of the original founding list admins, after 20-odd years. Sadly, the other, John Pinner, has passed away. I therefore decree, as self-appointed "Benevolent Dictator for List", that the Python CoC established by Steve Holden IS the official Code of Conduct, and must be respected

Re: [python-uk] 2 Principle Engineer roles in London up to £95k

2016-12-06 Thread Andy Robinson
On 6 December 2016 at 12:58, Steve Holden wrote: > > > What's the principal principle to be observed in this principality? Newton's "Principia", I would imagine ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyt

Re: [python-uk] 2 Principle Engineer roles in London up to £95k

2016-12-06 Thread Andy Robinson
On 6 December 2016 at 12:01, Nicholas H.Tollervey wrote: > How do you know they don't want a philosopher/Pythonista..? Having > principles is important y'know... ;-) Yes, but if the job involves "engineering" peoples' principles, it's a bit worrying. - Andy __

Re: [python-uk] Static site generators with Python

2016-09-03 Thread Andy Robinson
Python and now I know we don't need to maintain any infrastructure. So, thanks again? Sorry to top post but anything else on my iPhone is a nightmarish ordeal. Andy On Saturday, 3 September 2016, Stestagg wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 7:57 PM Andy Robinson > wrote: > >

Re: [python-uk] Static site generators with Python

2016-09-02 Thread Andy Robinson
On 2 September 2016 at 20:18, Alistair Broomhead wrote: > It's also worth looking at circleci and buildbot, where the latter is run > locally, which has its own pros and cons, and the former has had a lot of > hype because of support for parallelism. Travis has good integration with > slack though

[python-uk] Static site generators with Python

2016-09-02 Thread Andy Robinson
Re-subjecting... On 2 September 2016 at 19:30, Stestagg wrote: > Hi Andy > > We use travis to build the site. You can see the travis yaml file and build > scripts in our repo: ... > If you can make your repo public, I would recommend travis as a great way to > build your site. We can > If you've

Re: [python-uk] job postings to this list

2016-09-02 Thread Andy Robinson
Chris, thanks for pointing out the new job site, which I had not really clocked. I have a question about pythonjobs.github.io (assuming Steve Stagg reads this list). I'm looking at Jekyll / GitHub Pages for a number of static sites for sports clubs, where we need to get them up and running but r

Re: [python-uk] job postings to this list

2016-09-01 Thread Andy Robinson
On 1 September 2016 at 22:49, Chris Withers wrote: > Hi All, > > What's the current state of play with job ads and this list? > > Last I knew, they weren't allowed. Seems to be the majority of list content > now... Hi Chris, A few years ago we discussed it and most people felt they were harmless,

Re: [python-uk] Coding "Bootcamps"

2016-05-18 Thread Andy Robinson
You can become Ricky Gervais... https://www.ucl.ac.uk/philosophy/prospective-students/careers-destinations ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

Re: [python-uk] Coding "Bootcamps"

2016-05-18 Thread Andy Robinson
On 18 May 2016 at 15:52, Zeth wrote: > My degrees are in econometrics and theology, and I also somehow found > myself making a living from writing code. I know theology is much more > practical than philosophy but I am sure the same logic applies* There was a great Tim Ferriss podcast where he in

Re: [python-uk] Coding "Bootcamps"

2016-05-18 Thread Andy Robinson
On 18 May 2016 at 14:18, Andy Robinson wrote: > We need summer interns urgently.. In London too... ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

Re: [python-uk] Coding "Bootcamps"

2016-05-18 Thread Andy Robinson
good match. Andy Robinson Managing Director ReportLab Europe Ltd. Thornton House, Thornton Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 4NG, UK Tel +44-20-8405-6420 On 18 May 2016 at 10:59, John via python-uk wrote: > Hi all, > > A philosopher friend of mine wants to transition into working as a software

Re: [python-uk] Data Wrangling with Python Course

2016-04-18 Thread Andy Robinson
ho did a PhD > at UCL, and we regularly higher people from imperial. I'm in touch with some people at UCL building bridges between their data science department and the outside world. I'll ping my contact there and ask... Andy Robinson Managing Director ReportLab Europe Ltd. Thor

Re: [python-uk] Reminder: The *other* python job board

2015-10-04 Thread Andy Robinson
s secret key functionality, > meaning that anyone can merge-request to the jobs site, but control of the > templates, build logic, etc, is held in a more restricted repo. > > I was meaning to write up our repo/code structure at some point, so may do > this when I'm back from

Re: [python-uk] Reminder: The *other* python job board

2015-10-04 Thread Andy Robinson
Salim, Hyde looks very impressive. I've been helping a few small communities build sites with Jekyll and GitHub Pages, where the page generation is done by GitHub after you commit. Do you mind me asking what does this for Hyde? Is some agent running somewhere else which updates all the pages and

Re: [python-uk] Nicholas Tollervey winner of PSF Community Service Award

2015-06-24 Thread Andy Robinson
Congratulations, Nicholas! - Andy ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

Re: [python-uk] Congratulations Carrie Anne and Naomi

2015-06-02 Thread Andy Robinson
Congratulations! - Andy ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

Re: [python-uk] UK based Pythonistas as candidates for the PSF board

2015-05-04 Thread Andy Robinson
You're right, a quick google says it has all changed since my fuzzy memories of circa 2003...: https://www.python.org/psf/membership/ Not sure I want to stump up $2000 now and get on the campaign trail, I'd probably have to become an advocate for a move to Python 3, which would involve fendin

[python-uk] Social auth, polling and surveys

2015-05-04 Thread Andy Robinson
pen mailing list at this time, but if it goes ahead, I will Many thanks,. Andy Robinson ReportLab +44-7725-056175 (today) ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

Re: [python-uk] UK based Pythonistas as candidates for the PSF board

2015-05-04 Thread Andy Robinson
finishes GCSEs in six weeks, at which point life gets more manageable, and I hope to get out to a lot more community events and conferences and start contributing again.So if you are really keen to have an extra nomination I wouldn't mind, but I am not going to press for it either.

Re: [python-uk] Python in education

2015-04-17 Thread Andy Robinson
Does anyone know what textbooks are being used for the new computing GCSE, which apparently uses Python? This must be the best opportunity ever for a few good Python authors and for O'Reilly - or another publisher who beats them to it ;-) - Andy On 17 April 2015 at 12:56, SW wrote: > It has

Re: [python-uk] Travelling to EuroPython 2015 by boat?

2015-03-23 Thread Andy Robinson
> Are you motivated by cost, adventure, or something else? Maybe 20 uninterrupted hours to sort out some slides? ;-) ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

Re: [python-uk] PyconUK website!

2015-03-20 Thread Andy Robinson
I have never seen sites built, managed and hosted this way before. It's brilliant! But where's the Python going to go? ;-) I have to teach a bunch of schoolkids some basic web design this Easter (front end only). We started off with concepts of version control, and I was going to have to bamboo

Re: [python-uk] Job Ad: Senior Python Engineers -Skimlinks - London

2015-02-04 Thread Andy Robinson
le list, seems better than people accidentally sending private emails to > everyone. > > Cheers, > Sven > > ___ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > -- Andy

Re: [python-uk] [EuroPython-Improve] [pyconuk] [EuroPython-Members] EuroPython Reboot

2014-09-19 Thread Andy Robinson
Hi all, As a list admin for the python-uk mailing list, I just approved a few blocked messages. If cross-posting from another list, please be aware that you normally have to join python-uk@python.org to post. I am sorry I can't be there, nor have I been at any recent EuroPython, but as a genera

Re: [python-uk] Announcing the 5th anniversary London Python Code Dojo

2014-08-28 Thread Andy Robinson
On 28 August 2014 12:15, Harry Percival wrote: > Totally over being embarrassed about book signings now. Nope, not > embarrassing at all. Book signings, I'm a real author, I do 'em, sure. > N problem. The champagne lifestyle and all the groupies take some getting used to, don't they? __

[python-uk] Announcing classics.reportlab.com

2014-07-10 Thread Andy Robinson
://classics.reportlab.com/ If anyone here knows people in the English teaching or drama worlds who might actually find this useful, I would be most grateful if you could ... * pass the link on * like it on facebook * tweet about it Best Regards, -- Andy Robinson Managing Director ReportLab Europe Ltd

Re: [python-uk] Posting about seeking work?

2014-03-03 Thread Andy Robinson
; > -- > Chris Dent http://burningchrome.com/ > [...] > ___ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk -- Andy Robinson Managing Director Repor

Re: [python-uk] copyright info in source

2013-09-10 Thread Andy Robinson
On 9 September 2013 19:53, Russel Winder wrote: > The licence statement has to be in each and every individual file since > in UK and USA law each file is deemed a separate work. > Russel, thanks. That's interesting. The practical issue is "how not to forget over time". A test in a test suite,

Re: [python-uk] copyright info in source

2013-09-09 Thread Andy Robinson
On 9 September 2013 14:18, Jonathan Hartley wrote: > They'd like me to include a license and copyright info in every source file > (including empty __init__.py files). I have had this with big companies before, long ago. It may actually be sufficient to have one line saying something like... "C

Re: [python-uk] Reading list

2013-06-26 Thread Andy Robinson
_ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > -- Andy Robinson Managing Director ReportLab Europe Ltd. Thornton House, Thornton Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 4NG, UK Tel +44-20-8405-6420 __

Re: [python-uk] Suggestions / best practices for deployment

2013-05-20 Thread Andy Robinson
On 20 May 2013 14:51, Harry Percival wrote: > Also, question for django people: static files, as collected by "manage.py > collectstatic": in the repo, or not? No. It's a deployment step. It's REALLY useful to have a small set of "functional tests" which can be run in a live web app. For exa

Re: [python-uk] Suggestions / best practices for deployment

2013-05-20 Thread Andy Robinson
y ones. We have been very happy with FCGI for 6 years now for exactly these reasons. -- Andy Robinson ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

Re: [python-uk] Suggestions / best practices for deployment

2013-05-18 Thread Andy Robinson
r development, > testing or disaster recovery > - so that you can smash and rebuild a compromised or faulty machine without > wasting time > - so that you can deploy a dozen times a day and get features or fixes into > the hands of your users > > > On 17 May 2013 15:39, M.-A.

Re: [python-uk] Suggestions / best practices for deployment

2013-05-16 Thread Andy Robinson
Speaking as a relatively obsolete dinosaur, I would suggest that if you are going to discuss specific deployment practices, you start with the most fundamental ones: SSH, the unix shell and so on. We have had issues over the years with people coming in and introducing sexy new deployment tools, b

Re: [python-uk] Suggestions / best practices for deployment

2013-05-15 Thread Andy Robinson
percival > > ___ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > -- Andy Robinson Managing Director ReportLab Europe Ltd. Thornton House, Thornton Road, Wimbledon, London

[python-uk] Posting is for members - please remember which email you use!

2013-05-02 Thread Andy Robinson
ich one is registered with the list and use that, or sign up again with your new one? Thanks, -- Andy Robinson ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

Re: [python-uk] Python Trademark at Risk in Europe

2013-02-15 Thread Andy Robinson
ted and on sale here - first company based entirely on Python software, 2000 onwards, evangelising the use of the language in UK etc etc - 'chaired' UK Python Conference (albeit as a track somewhat under the radar within the ACCU, but I can downplay) for about 5 years from 2002 on

Re: [python-uk] The perils of reply-to

2013-01-03 Thread Andy Robinson
On 3 January 2013 17:07, Jon Ribbens wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 04:41:27PM +, Antonio Cavallo wrote: >> like this? >> >> http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=50e5b456e4b04de5024a > > I don't want either of those options, I want the proper, standard > list behaviour, which is "Reply-T

Re: [python-uk] The perils of reply-to

2013-01-03 Thread Andy Robinson
On 3 January 2013 11:57, Jonathan Lange wrote: > > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html makes a compelling case > for choosing 'reply to sender' over 'reply to the list'. > Yes, I think the mailman user interface points to this article as well and recommends the default of 'reply to sen

[python-uk] The perils of reply-to

2013-01-03 Thread Andy Robinson
te to change it. In the light of this morning's, er, entertainment, are the Python developers on this list (well, all but one of them...) happy with the way it currently works? Best Regards, -- Andy Robinson Managing Director ReportLab Europe Ltd. (I thin

Re: [python-uk] Python Developers - ReportLab, Wimbledon, London

2012-12-11 Thread Andy Robinson
Russel, I actually had a read of the Equality and Diversity Act 2010. It defines seven "protected characteristics": age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership and pregnancy and maternity. I cannot find anything in it to

Re: [python-uk] Python Developers - ReportLab, Wimbledon, London

2012-12-11 Thread Andy Robinson
airly small business, we have enough 'old hands' already, and we are mostly looking for people earlier in their careers 3. We are not looking for any one person with all of those skills, just saying that those are all skills of interest. 4. Everything is negotiable Best Regards, -- Andy Ro

Re: [python-uk] Python Developers - ReportLab, Wimbledon, London

2012-12-11 Thread Andy Robinson
On 11 December 2012 11:45, Matt Hamilton wrote: > We just submitted a job ad to a University placement scheme site and there > was a whole load of info there about what you can and can't say. e.g. you > couldn't ask for someone 'energetic' as it implied ageism. *facepalm* I > remember a while b

Re: [python-uk] Python Developers - ReportLab, Wimbledon, London

2012-12-11 Thread Andy Robinson
On 11 December 2012 10:51, Andy Robinson wrote: > We are looking for people who are smart, get > things done and are good team players. For all employers out there my HR guru goes to all the seminars on employment law, and is very current on what we can and cannot do. She has told m

[python-uk] Python Developers - ReportLab, Wimbledon, London

2012-12-11 Thread Andy Robinson
27;t have a CV up to date but are interested, please drop a note anyway as we will be interviewing before Christmas. Strictly no agencies, please. We will only talk to direct applicants. Best Regards, -- Andy Robinson Managing Director ReportLab Europe Ltd. Thornton House, Thornton Road, Wi

Re: [python-uk] hexagonal Django

2012-12-05 Thread Andy Robinson
the interfaces problem. Big hairy corporate systems are often broken down now into reasonable sized chunks that POST and GET to each other, so you don't need quite so many layers and adapters in the code of any one of them. Just my grumpy-old-man 2p worth. -- Andy Robinson _

[python-uk] Jobs at ReportLab, South West London

2012-01-21 Thread Andy Robinson
noagencies, please. For more information see http://www.reportlab.com/ -- Please email your CV to vacanc...@reportlab.com Best Regards, Andy Robinson Managing Director, ReportLab Europe Ltd. ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.

[python-uk] ReportLab is hiring - Wimbledon

2011-11-01 Thread Andy Robinson
Hi everyone, We're hiring. http://www.reportlab.com/about/careers/ Best Regards, -- Andy Robinson Managing Director ReportLab Europe Ltd. Media House, 3 Palmerston Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 1PG, UK Tel +44-20-8545-1570 ___ python-uk ma

Re: [python-uk] Dojo / workshop on "TDD Django with Selenium" - any interest?

2011-10-14 Thread Andy Robinson
u screenshots of what went wrong if tests fail. It's pretty neat and you can play with it at modest levels at no charge. I should know a bit more by whenever the talk rolls around! -- Andy Robinson ReportLab ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@p

Re: [python-uk] Dojo / workshop on "TDD Django with Selenium" - any interest?

2011-10-13 Thread Andy Robinson
enue suggestions also gratefully accepted... This could be highly relevant for us and of my clients. Possibly 5 people from us if the timing is right. Regrettably we don't have physical space for it right now (and are way outside the centre of London) -

Re: [python-uk] Tell us what you did with Python this year....

2010-12-20 Thread Andy Robinson
On 20 December 2010 14:43, wrote: > Sadly I only got paid for some of it. The invoices are generated in Python > though. PDFs from ReportLab, I hope and trust? ;-) -- Andy Robinson Managing Director ReportLab Europe Ltd. ___ python-uk mailin

[python-uk] Tell us what you did with Python this year....

2010-12-20 Thread Andy Robinson
As an attempt to generate some content and balance out the "jobs" discussion Why don't a few people here tell us what they got up to this year? Neat projects at work, things you learned about Python in 2010, things you've been playing with I'm having a mad day but will try to post mine to

Re: [python-uk] OT: Looking for an iPhone dev

2010-12-20 Thread Andy Robinson
On 20 December 2010 08:05, Simon Brunning wrote: > On 20 December 2010 01:19, Patrick Dempster > wrote: >> Perhaps its time for the list admin's, start blocking those who post these >> "job" adverts? python jobs I can sort of understand but this is getting >> silly. Or, we could take another ta

Re: [python-uk] London Python Roles

2010-12-16 Thread Andy Robinson
en here has worried me on that front), people reply with a '-1'; and if we get more than half a dozen the moderators can contact that recruiter and ask them nicely to stop, then ban if they persist. -- Andy Robinson ReportLab ___ python-u

Re: [python-uk] London Python Roles

2010-12-15 Thread Andy Robinson
riting microcode for chips in order to put a supercomputer under their desk! The bigger question is whether all this horsepower ultimately leads to better investment performance. I will stay out of that one ;-) -- Andy Robinson ReportLab ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

[python-uk] ReportLab is hiring - Wimbledon

2010-10-07 Thread Andy Robinson
info and how to apply, see... http://www.reportlab.com/about/careers/ We'll also happily consider people who bridge the above job descriptions... Best Regards, -- Andy Robinson Managing Director ReportLab Europe Ltd. Media House, 3 Palmerston Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 1P

Re: [python-uk] Google Wave

2009-10-19 Thread Andy Robinson
2009/10/19 Anand Kumria : >> Would anybody have a spare invite then?  To h.due...@gmail if possible. >  Likewise if anyone else has a spare invite. Me too please!andy at rep*rtlab d*t c*m Thanks, -- Andy Robinson CEO/Chief Architect ReportLab Europe Ltd. Media House, 3 Palmer

[python-uk] ReportLab is hiring - Wimbledon, SouthWest London

2009-06-30 Thread Andy Robinson
ven bother. Best Regards, -- Andy Robinson CEO/Chief Architect ReportLab Europe Ltd. Media House, 3 Palmerston Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 1PG, UK ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

Re: [python-uk] Python events upcoming in the south/southeast

2009-05-08 Thread Andy Robinson
2009/5/8 Alec Muffett : > I am eagerly > waiting for a DJUGL or similar event down in my area The people who attend these things are probably going to be in detox for a while after this week's EuroDjangoCon in Prague - I dread to think how much beer went down there In fact if you can catch a

Re: [python-uk] python-uk Digest, Vol 69, Issue 1

2009-05-08 Thread Andy Robinson
2009/5/7 Shaun Laughey : > Hi Andy didn't you start a while ago? We've dabbled and done a private port of the open source toolkit using 2-to-3, which sort of works except that PIL is not yet available for 3.0 and that's a major issue for many users. We also build a ton of solutions on Django. S

Re: [python-uk] python-uk Digest, Vol 69, Issue 1

2009-05-07 Thread Andy Robinson
2009/5/7 John Pinner : > But if you are developing new software you should be using Python 3, > ready for when it becomes the default in Linux distributions (already > it is, in Ubuntu 9.04). I just did a clean install of Ubuntu desktop 9.04 2 days ago, and typing 'python' brings up 2.6.2.I ha

[python-uk] Looking for developers daahn saarf

2008-09-18 Thread Andy Robinson
#x27;d like to know more, please just call or email me. Best Regards, -- Andy Robinson CEO/Chief Architect ReportLab Europe Ltd. 165 The Broadway, Wimbledon, London SW19 1NE, UK Tel +44-20-8544-8049 p.s. Ditto about agencies. Our staff are trained to screen out agency cal

Re: [python-uk] Python training in London

2008-04-29 Thread Andy Robinson
2008/4/29 John Pinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > We've certainly trained people like this, ie intelligent > non-developers, and it's never been a problem. Much easier to train > than non-intelligent developers. Get that off to comp.lang.python quick, it must be a QOTW ;-) _

Re: [python-uk] Favourite ways of scrubbing HTML/whitelisting specific HTML tags?

2008-02-08 Thread Andy Robinson
A-F, the next from G-M and so on...). I can't imagine using anything else. Best Regards, -- Andy Robinson CEO/Chief Architect ReportLab Europe Ltd. 165 The Broadway, Wimbledon, London SW19 1NE, UK Tel +44-20-8544-8049 ___ python-uk mailing list p

[python-uk] Vacancies at ReportLab

2008-02-06 Thread Andy Robinson
n writing. There is a possibility of some travel to client sites worldwide (clients include luxury resorts and tropical island tourist authorities!) For further information see http://www.reportlab.com/careers.html Best Regards, -- Andy Robinson CEO/Chief Architect ReportLab Europe Ltd

Re: [python-uk] Anyone alive

2007-12-06 Thread Andy Robinson
> Well then hello both Tim & Michael. What are the toics for tomorrow's > meeting Tim? It was last night while this thread was going on. Several mini talks at Thoughtworrks office, very well attended, I skipped the pub afterwards but at least 30 people headed that way... - Andy

Re: [python-uk] [pyconuk] London Python meetup, Wednesday, October the 10th

2007-10-09 Thread Andy Robinson
On 09/10/2007, Simon Brunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a reminder - the London Python meetup is on for tomorrow evening. > I have Tim Golden down to tell us about WMI, Andy Robinson to talk > about "personalised publishing" using Django, plus quickies from Giles

Re: [python-uk] London Python meetup, Wednesday, October the 10th

2007-09-18 Thread Andy Robinson
platform, which would give me an excuse to share tips/tricks/headaches on web frameworks and content management as well as ReportLab's document generation tools. Fairly high "wow" factor and lots of pics of tropical beaches, could be as technical or not as you like ;-) Andy Robinson,

Re: [python-uk] remove

2007-07-03 Thread Andy Robinson
any other servers). I can only regulate who posts to the list. Regards, -- Andy Robinson CEO/Chief Architect ReportLab Europe Ltd. 165 The Broadway, Wimbledon, London SW19 1NE, UK Tel +44-20-8544-8049 ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http

Re: [python-uk] Python Developers wanted, Troon Scotland

2007-06-14 Thread Andy Robinson
On 14/06/07, David Irvine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope this is not perceived as a bad thing to do in this list - if it > is sorry in advance. I think it's a perfect thing to do on this list. I'm overemployed personally, but good luck.... -- Andy Robinson CEO/Chi

Re: [python-uk] [Fwd: FW: [lymc] FW: IET Professional Registration Workshops]

2007-05-04 Thread Andy Robinson
On 04/05/07, Michael Grazebrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Green light for us giving a Python lecture - and possibly more - at the IET. Well done Michael! Let me know if I can help.. - Andy Robinson ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@p

Re: [python-uk] python training

2007-04-24 Thread Andy Robinson
's firm runs courses regularly and I have heard very good things about them...I think he's on this list too http://clocksoft.co.uk/training - Andy Robinson ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

Re: [python-uk] Short notice Python meetup next week, anyone?

2007-04-19 Thread Andy Robinson
On 19/04/07, Michael Foord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simon Brunning wrote: > > http://announce.londonpython.org.uk/2007/04/19/snap-python-meetup/ > > > > > Sounds great. I *might* be able to make it, depending on book pressures... > Ditto (ex

Re: [python-uk] Python lecture series

2007-03-19 Thread Andy Robinson
> WE Can act fast enough! A speaker cancelled for the 11th April. Michael, I'd love to help with a talk, but am travelling at that time. - Andy ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London: Ten lines of code

2007-03-19 Thread Andy Robinson
Michael Grazebrook wrote: > @Tim > Nobody has volunteered off-line. I reckon you volunteered! Thanks. I'm > going to try to persuade Andy Robinson to do 10 minutes if I can, but > he's on holiday this week. Oi. It's a BUSINESS TRIP. Never mind that I am with the

Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London

2007-03-15 Thread Andy Robinson
> I start there on Monday, so I'll see if I can make something happen. ;-) I didn't want to ask, but congratulations! - Andy ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London

2007-03-15 Thread Andy Robinson
Michael Foord wrote: > There are lots of banks, hedge funds and other companies that now > develop with Python. It would be nice to find a way of reaching them > (and finding out what they would like to learn about). Perhaps spamming > all the London companies that advertise on the Python job bo

[python-uk] Python evening talks in London

2007-03-14 Thread Andy Robinson
lks, and on what? - who'd bring colleagues along? - any thoughts on format, target audience and so on I understand the start would be a few months off. Best Regards, -- Andy Robinson CEO/Chief Architect ReportLab Europe Ltd. 165 the Broadway, Wimbledon, London SW19 1NE, UK tel +44-20-85

[python-uk] Yet Another UK Python Conference

2007-02-05 Thread Andy Robinson
I just spoke to John Pinner at Clocksoft on the phone - he's been off email for a couple of days and hasn't seen this thread. He and others in the Midlands have been planning a UK event for a long time, and have venues lined up at around the same time - September (!). There is a meeting of som

Re: [python-uk] PyCamp UK !

2007-02-05 Thread Andy Robinson
> I'm not sure August is actually the best time for people in the UK either - > since so many people go away then. My feeling is that the best time would be > sometime in early September - either 1/2 Sept or 8/9th Sept. > +1. Especially after August. - Andy ___

Re: [python-uk] PyCamp UK !

2007-02-05 Thread Andy Robinson
>> Oh is this the IronPython book? Cool :) >> >> > Yup. Just completed the first draft of chapter 2. Already behind > schedule. :-) No worries, IronPython itself took a while AFAIR ;-) ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.p

Re: [python-uk] Many apologies...

2007-01-08 Thread Andy Robinson
Tim Golden wrote: > My many apologies to the denizens of the > python-uk mailing list. I went on leave just > as my company changed name, and I didn't > realize they were going to send out an > irritating reply to any incoming emails. > > I've unsubscribed from that address now, > so sorry again f

Re: [python-uk] List now limited to subscribers...

2007-01-08 Thread Andy Robinson
Simon Brunning wrote: > > I'm game. > Thanks Simon, you're now an admin ;-) -- Andy Robinson ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

[python-uk] List now limited to subscribers...

2007-01-08 Thread Andy Robinson
to be a list admin too? I am often away or too busy, and it might be a good idea if there were a couple of others. Best Regards, -- Andy Robinson CEO/Chief Architect ReportLab Europe Ltd. 165 The Broadway, London SW 19 1NE, Unite Kingdom tel +44-20-8544

Re: [python-uk] London 2.0 tomorrow

2006-09-04 Thread Andy Robinson
Very sorry I won't be able to make this one - a real pity as I have a bunch of questions for Mr. Huggins, but probably a relief for him ;-) - Andy Robinson ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/p

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