On 16 November 2010 11:28, Flo Ledermann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I joined Python North-West for the first time yesterday evening and > just wanted to say hello again on the list. Hi Flo ... Welcome aboard! Very good to meet you yesterday. > I really enjoyed meeting a > few Python enthusiasts and getting hands-on with Scraperwiki, even > though the DWD web server gave our team a particularly difficult > challenge with its invalid HTML responses that we couldn't fix in > time ;) > I was wondering how you were getting on at the "pizza" end of the room. Good to see your account. Will you get a chance to fix it? I'll put out some general meeting notes in due course but I'd be interested to hear how other individual groups got on. Once Andrew P and I had sorted out opening our zipped Excel file, we finished our scrape of Kielder and Alice Hold just in time. (Urm ... though I've not gone back to see if it's actually working!) > I moved to Manchster from Vienna/Austria a few weeks ago with my wife > Patrizia, and I am working as a Freelancer, mostly implementing web > applications using Django (which is how I came to Python from a Java/C+ > + background) with a few projects in the making for clients back in > Austria and looking for opportunities around here. I'd really like to > be able to tackle increasingly sophisticated problems in Python, which > I learned to love after initial skepticism (who didn't have to > overcome a day of doubts about significant whitespace), and I am > currently trying to get my head around more advanced topics like > generators and metaclasses (which I am struggling to find demand for > in my daily work so I'd especially enjoy a coding session dedicated to > these topics some time). > > So, I am looking forward to meeting you again and discussing stuff > like this with like-minded individuals. > See you again soon! Safe > > All the best, > > Flo > http://floledermann.com/ <- slightly outdated > > P.S. Anyone interested in going to WhereCamp in Nottingham this > weekend? As I have some background in web-based GIS, I'll probably be > there. > > -- > To post: [email protected] > To unsubscribe: [email protected] > Feeds: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west/feeds > More options: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west > -- To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] Feeds: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west/feeds More options: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west
