PyTexas: last day for $25 registration, talk proposal

2012-09-01 Thread Brad Allen
Just wanted to send out this quick reminder--today is the last day for PyTexas $25 registration; starting tomorrow it will cost $50. http://www.pytexas.org/chance/1/register/ Today is also your last day to post your talk proposals. http://www.pytexas.org/chance/1/talks/add/ Btw, there

Re: PyTexas: last day for $25 registration, talk proposal

2012-09-01 Thread Brad Allen
Whoops, false alarm. Tomorrow, August 31 is actually the last day to register and pay at the $25 rate for PyTexas. Likewise for talk proposals. On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Brad Allen bradallen...@gmail.com wrote: Just wanted to send out this quick reminder--today is the last day

10 Reasons You Should Attend PyTexas 2011...Register Now!

2011-08-11 Thread Brad Allen
If you're in the Texas area, please check out this post explaining registration and the 10 reasons you should consider attending PyTexas 2011: http://pytexas.blogspot.com/2011/08/10-reasons-you-should-attend-pytexas.html We opened registration on Monday morning with this post to the local user

PyTexas 2011 Call for Proposals

2011-06-13 Thread Brad Allen
PyTexas 2011, the fourth annual Python programming conference for Texas and the surrounding region, will take place Saturday September 10 and Sunday September 11, 2011 at Texas AM University in College Station, Texas. Last year with 94 attendees, PyTexas 2010 reached critical mass to achieve an

Python SIG for Healthcare IT

2011-03-11 Thread Brad Allen
For those seeking to work with Python-based tools in the healthcare IT industry, this SIG (special interest group) can provide a forum to discuss challenges and hopefully foster knowledge sharing and tools development. Relevant topics include tools for working with healthcare standard data

PyTexas 2010 Call for Proposals

2010-06-14 Thread Brad Allen
PyTexas 2010, the fourth annual Python programming conference for Texas and the surrounding region, will take place Saturday August 28, 2010 at the Baylor University in Waco, Texas. A variety of activities are under consideration, including tutorials, scheduled talks, Lightning Talks, Open Spaces,

PyTexas survey

2010-05-27 Thread Brad Allen
Hello Python Community, If you live in the Texas region, please help with PyTexas 2010 planning by filling out the new survey. This will tell us things like whether the planned Aug 28 date works for you, whether you have a user group in your area, and more importantly your t-shirt size :-).

Re: method to intercept string formatting % operations

2010-02-05 Thread Brad Allen
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Jean-Michel Pichavant jeanmic...@sequans.com wrote: Anyway why would you want to use the tuple form ? it's beaten in every aspect by the dictionary form. I'm subclassing a namedtuple, and adding some additional functionality such as __getitem__, __setitem__, so

[issue2424] Logging module hides user code errors (bare except)

2008-03-19 Thread Brad Allen
New submission from Brad Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The logging module contains several bare except statements. It's understandable that the logging module should be completely silent, but in the case of logging.config, the bare except can make it very difficult to identify when there is a problem

[issue2424] Logging module hides user code errors (bare except)

2008-03-19 Thread Brad Allen
Brad Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment: in the previous post, please replace the word 'customer' with the word 'user' __ Tracker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bugs.python.org/issue2424

Re: [dfwPython] A Few More Forrester Survey Questions

2007-05-18 Thread Brad Allen
At 10:22 AM -0500 5/18/07, Jeff Rush wrote: I'm down to the wire here on answering the Forrester survey but am stumped on a few questions I hope someone can help me out with. 1) What -existing- examples of the use of Python to create social web applications are there? These include chat,

Re: [python-advocacy] A Pythonic Way to Measure and Improve Your Programming Skills?

2007-03-10 Thread Brad Allen
At 6:05 AM -0600 3/9/07, Jeff Rush wrote: Prior to PyCon I'd been thinking about some kind of campaign, service or documents, that I call So you think you know Python My initial idea was for use by Python programmers, who are honest with themselves, to have a way to measure their knowledge.

Re: [python-advocacy] A Pythonic Way to Measure and Improve Your Programming Skills?

2007-03-10 Thread Brad Allen
At 9:10 AM -0800 3/10/07, Michael Bernstein wrote: On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 10:01 -0600, Brad Allen wrote: When I discussed this problem with Michael Bernstein at PyCon he suggested the idea of creating a chroot jail for each web session which could run the Python interpreter in a secure

Re: does anybody earn a living programming in python?

2006-09-30 Thread Brad Allen
I'll attest that we have a shortage of Python developers in the Dallas area; in the DFW Python user group (dfwpython.org) we occasionally encounter local employers who have trouble finding local Python developers who can take on new work. Most of the group members are already employed, so the

PyCon 2007: What talks/tutorials/panels do you want to see?

2006-09-30 Thread Brad Allen
This thread is for posting ideas and general brainstorming about what kinds of talks folks would be interested in seeing at PyCon 2007. The idea is to inspire volunteer speakers to propose talks that they might not otherwise realize would be popular, and to give PyCon organizers a whiff of fresh

Re: Pythondocs.info : collaborative Python documentation project

2006-09-17 Thread Brad Allen
Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote: On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:30:56 -0700, Robert Hicks wrote: That said...the Python docs are open source. Just start going through them and adding examples. ASPN (activestate) is a good place for examples... Yes, but that requires a separate search and depends on

Python getting some positive attention at digg.com

2006-09-17 Thread Brad Allen
This made it to the front page of digg.com yesterday, and is now up to 597 diggs. It has some discussion among folks who are trying to decide which language to learn next...if any of you Pythonistas have digg accounts, you might want to chime in.

Re: Pythondocs.info : collaborative Python documentation project

2006-09-17 Thread Brad Allen
Kay Schluehr wrote: Personally, I never found the Python docs particular bad. It is rewarding to write good documentation because documentation has different aspects i.e. introductory/tutorial, exhaustive/manual and design documentation aspects. Not to mention cookbook recipes. I also

Re: Pythondocs.info : collaborative Python documentation project

2006-09-17 Thread Brad Allen
A.M. Kuchling wrote: However, this code isn't used at the moment because I have no idea what to do about version controlling the links. Do we just use the current links whenever the HTML is generated? Make a copy of the list and commit them into SVN, so the links cease to be updated but are

Re: Pythondocs.info : collaborative Python documentation project

2006-09-16 Thread Brad Allen
Here is an idea for improving Python official documentation: Provide a tab-based interface for each entry, with the overview/summary at the top-level, with a row of tabs underneath: 1. Official documentation, with commentary posted at the bottom (ala Django documentation) 2.