Date: Thursday July 21 Time: 6:00pm-8:30pm, with drinks and food during and after. Topics: Graham Dumpleton on The Vampire mod_python extension Paul Fenwick "So you want to start a business?" Place: James Squires Brewhouse 2 The Promenade, King St Wharf Sydney Fee: $0.00
The Sydney Python meetup group is on this Thursday. The meeting time has been brought forward half an hour, and the formal part of the evening will commence promptly at 6:30pm. The James Squires Brewhouse managed to book the Python Meetup Group and the Perl Mongers in adjoining rooms for the same night. Everybody has promised to be nice and we'll be combining with them to hear from one of their Melbourne gurus. As always, everybody is welcome. Graham Dumpleton, author of Vampire, will be speaking first (6:30-7:30). He describes his presentation thusly: "Although I'll talk a bit about the motivations behind writing Vampire and why this extra layer on top of mod_python is useful, what I want to talk about more is what I have learnt from writing Vampire. From that I would like to go on to describe a new and better way of doing this same thing for mod_python that Vampire attempted to do. This new approach moves even further away from the monolithic framework approach towards small building blocks of functionality that can be slotted together to build up a web application how you want it and not how some framework dictates you should do it." More information on Vampire can be found at http://www.dscpl.com.au/projects/vampire/ Paul Fenwick of the Melbourne Perl Mongers will also be speaking (7:30-8:30). His talk, "So you want to start a business", will be presented at the SAGE-AU conference later this year, and an abstract can be found online at http://www.sage-au.org.au/conf/sage-au2005/speakers.html#fenwickabs -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html