The BACON-PIG flies again: August 24

2009-08-05 Thread Stephen Waterbury
The next meeting of the BACON-PIG (The Baltimore, Annapolis, Columbia, and Other Northern dc suburbs Python Interest Group) will occur at the following spacetime coordinates: Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Space: Howard County Central Library, Columbia, MD Google Map link:

BACON-PIG's next flight: June 24

2009-05-28 Thread Stephen Waterbury
The next meeting of the BACON-PIG (Baltimore, Annapolis, Columbia, and Other Northern dc suburbs Python Interest Group) will occur at the following spacetime coordinates: Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Space: The Offices of Zenoss in Annapolis, Maryland See the BACON-PIG web site for more

New Python User Group forming in Maryland: BACON-PIG

2008-03-01 Thread Stephen Waterbury
This is to announce the formation of a new Python User Group: the Baltimore/Annapolis/Columbia/and-Other-Northern-dc-suburbs Python Interest Group (BACON-PIG). Although there is a good and venerable group in Washington, DC (the ZPUG-DC or Zope/Python Users of DC, http://www.zpugdc.org/) some of

Re: New Python User Group forming in Maryland: BACON-PIG

2008-03-01 Thread Stephen Waterbury
Oops, forgot to include the subscription url for the bacon-pig list: https://pangalactic.us/mailman/listinfo/bacon-pig Steve -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html

Re: Safe Local XMLRPC

2005-03-12 Thread Stephen Waterbury
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: ... corba is 10-100 times faster over the network than soap/xmlrpc. ... I'm not challenging these statistics (because I don't know), but I would be interested in the source. Are you referring to the results of an actual benchmark, or something more subjective? Steve --

Re: Yet another logo design...

2005-02-25 Thread Stephen Waterbury
Mark wrote: Long story short here is a contemporary logo design by myself: http://www.imagezilla.com/img.php?im=1182129642_logo.png Any comments welcome... *runs* Heh. As a graphic design, I think it's very nice. Unfortunately, it's probably a bit too scary as a logo for Python the language.

Re: What YAML engine do you use?

2005-01-22 Thread Stephen Waterbury
Steve Holden wrote: It seems to me the misunderstanding here is that XML was ever intended to be generated directly by typing in a text editor. It was rather intended (unless I'm mistaken) as a process-to-process data interchange metalanguage that would be *human_readable*. The premise that XML

[OT] XML design intent [was Re: What YAML engine do you use?]

2005-01-22 Thread Stephen Waterbury
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Stephen Waterbury wrote: The premise that XML had a coherent design intent stetches my credulity beyond its elastic limit. the design goals are listed in section 1.1 of the specification. see tim bray's annotated spec for additional comments by one of the team members

wxPython unicode/ansi builds [was Re: ElementTree cannot parse UTF-8 Unicode?]

2005-01-20 Thread Stephen Waterbury
Martin v. Lwis wrote: Jarek Zgoda wrote: So why are there non-UNICODE versions of wxPython??? To save memory or something??? Robin Dunn has an explanation here: http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/UnicodeBuild ... which is the first hit from a Google search on wxpython unicode build. Also, from the

Re: Python.org, Website of Satan

2005-01-14 Thread Stephen Waterbury
Michael Hoffman wrote: Denis S. Otkidach wrote: Certainly, it can be done more efficient: Yes, of course. I should have thought about the logic of my code before posting. But I didn't want to spend any more time on it than I had to. ;-) Bah, you satanic types are so lazy. --

Re: Recent infoworld column

2005-01-09 Thread Stephen Waterbury
Roger Binns wrote: You may also find a talk I gave at baypiggies in July 2004 of interest. http://bitpim.org/papers/baypiggies/ It covers the various issues in doing a real world Python application, including packaging [etc -- lots of great stuff ...] *Very* nice presentation -- THANKS!

Re: Software archeology (was Re: Developing Commercial Applications in Python)

2005-01-07 Thread Stephen Waterbury
Aahz wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stephen Waterbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can somebody there to point me any good commercial applications developed using python ? Also see Python Success Stories: http://pythonology.org/success A notable example is Verity's

Re: Developing Commercial Applications in Python

2005-01-06 Thread Stephen Waterbury
Nick Vargish wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can somebody there to point me any good commercial applications developed using python ? Python is used in several games ... Also see Python Success Stories: http://pythonology.org/success A notable example is Verity's search engine -- see

Re: Developing Commercial Applications in Python

2005-01-03 Thread Stephen Waterbury
It's me wrote: Shaw-PTI (www.pti-us.com) uses Python in their software. ... but the Python Powered logo is conspicuous by its absence from their site. Too bad that some commercial exploiters of Python don't advertise that fact more often. Every little bit helps! Steve --

Re: The Industry choice

2005-01-03 Thread Stephen Waterbury
Steve Holden wrote: Aahz wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aahz wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was pretty skeptical of Java's checked exceptions when I first used them but have been coming around about

ElementTree.write() question

2004-12-16 Thread Stephen Waterbury
[If there is a separate list for elementtree, please someone clue me ... I didn't see one.] Fredrik or other xml / elementtree gurus: I see from the source that ElementTree.write() writes ?xml version=1.0? encoding=[whatever] at the beginning of the xml output if an encoding other than utf-8 or

[OT] Re: [Boa Constr] new open source project developing with Boa Constructor

2004-12-14 Thread Stephen Waterbury
Stephen Waterbury wrote: sosman wrote: Just letting people know, I have launched a homebrew software package that is being developed with boa. http://sourceforge.net/projects/brewsta/ So, give us a hint ... does it make beer or what? :) Oops! Sorry gang. Sent my wise-ass reply to the wrong

Re: [Boa Constr] new open source project developing with Boa Constructor

2004-12-13 Thread Stephen Waterbury
sosman wrote: Just letting people know, I have launched a homebrew software package that is being developed with boa. http://sourceforge.net/projects/brewsta/ So, give us a hint ... does it make beer or what? :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list