Mailman 3 March 2008 - python-uk

Software Developers Wanted
by Rakesh Thakrar March 31, 2008

March 31, 2008

Bright Red-Brick graduates wanted - 31.5k starting salary + Excellent Benefits, Healthcare, Pension, Insurance. Location: Berkshire Company: Excellent, exciting and unique graduate opportunity to work with a dynamic, dramatic UK company with exposure to ground breaking technical environments. The client designs, develops and implements the most advanced technologically advanced IT systems and communications software and hardware. Development is organised into informal teams so that everyone has their own central role and strong personal contributions are always recognised. Qualifications: 2.1 or 1st class degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Science or Math's and at least A, A, B at A level (and ideally straight A grades) plus a You will have a keen personal interest in programming and have tinkered with Linux at home. Position: The successful graduate will be heavily involved with the specification of new products and features, working both independently and as part of a well experienced team you will gain the second to none experience required the start of a very strong career. You will receive excellent experience and training with both architectural/system design and detailed coding. Excellent communications skills are a must as you will be communicating heavily with the test and support teams to ensure and maintain the quality of the product and also other groups such as (manufacturing/documentation etc) involved in shipping finished products. Not only does this excellent graduate position have both an amazingly high starting salary + benefits but you will also receive excellent training in all of the above and have access to brand new software/hardware. Key words: Graduate, Linux, C++, C, Java, C+, Python, Pearl, Unix ___________________ Rakesh Thakrar Manager Microcom Recruitment Division Tel: 0845 389 2322 Mob: 079 7094 3227 Fax: 0845 389 2392 www.microcom-recruitment.com <http://www.microcom-recruitment.com> Unit F The Chase Foxholes Business Park John Tate Road Hertford SG13 7NN Permanent and Contract IT Recruitment Specialists ____________________________________ ************************************************************ The views expressed in this e-mail are not necessarily the views of European Recruitment Network Ltd, its directors, officers or employees make no representation or accept any liability for its accuracy or completeness unless expressly stated to the contrary. This e-mail, and any attachments are strictly confidential and intended for the addressee(s) only. The content may also contain legal, professional or other privileged information. Unless expressly stated to the contrary, no contracts may be concluded on behalf of European Recruitment Network Ltd by means of e-mail communication. You may report the matter by calling us on 0845 389 2322. Please ensure you have adequate virus protection before you open or detach any documents from this transmission. European Network Recruitment Ltd does not accept any liability for viruses. European Recruitment Network Ltd is registered in England: Company number: 5651508. Registered Office: Greener House, 66-68 Haymarket, London, SW1Y 4RF ************************************************************

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Multicore Kamaelia
by Michael March 16, 2008

March 16, 2008

Hi! I've added some experimental multicore work in Kamaelia's /Sketches area today. It allows you to take the following code: Pipeline( Textbox(position=(20, 340), text_height=36, screen_width=900, screen_height=400, background_color=(130,0,70), text_color=(255,255,255)), TextDisplayer(position=(20, 90), text_height=36, screen_width=400, screen_height=540, background_color=(130,0,70), text_color=(255,255,255)) ) ... and make it run multicore as follows: ProcessPipeline( Textbox(position=(20, 340), text_height=36, screen_width=900, screen_height=400, background_color=(130,0,70), text_color=(255,255,255)), TextDisplayer(position=(20, 90), text_height=36, screen_width=400, screen_height=540, background_color=(130,0,70), text_color=(255,255,255)) ) The "proof" that this works multicore is the fact these are both pygame components and hence would not open two windows unless it was multi-process. I've written up more about this here: http://yeoldeclue.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.cgi?rm=viewpost&nodeid=1205626569 To work this uses Paul Boddie's pprocess module, LikeFile written by a GSOC student last year, and the components above were also from GSOC. Code in subversion is here for the curious: https://kamaelia.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kamaelia/trunk/Sketches/MPS/pp… This wouldn't've been as easy to write without using Paul's really nice code, so I'll just embarass him and say thank you for that here :-) Michael

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[Fwd: ANN: A grassroots effort to get Python introduced to beginner developers in Africa]
by Richard Smedley March 10, 2008

March 10, 2008

fyi -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Kamon Ayeva <kamon.ayeva(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: A list for NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) using Plone. <ngo(a)lists.plone.org> To: ngo(a)lists.plone.org Subject: ANN: A grassroots effort to get Python introduced to beginner developers in Africa Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:15:22 +0100 Hello all, With a group of people, convinced by Python's qualities and its power in getting the job done quickly, but also interested in Africa, we are preparing a project to deliver free Python training (a bit like GeekCorps do) and promote Python in Africa: The Python African Tour. The idea behind is to bootstrap and help organize a dynamic FOSS community in Africa linked to the other communities, and instigate fast and sustainable learning among the new generation. The original plan is get sponsoring to send a volunteer trainer (or a couple of trainers) to each town in Africa where we have demand. Since, the project is at preparation stage, contribution in the form of ideas and return on experience is welcome. If you want to participate as a volunteer, local facilitator, or sponsor, check out the project page on OpenPlans.org, join or contact me. http://www.openplans.org/projects/python-african-tour Best regards, Kamon AYEVA _______________________________________________ NGO mailing list NGO(a)lists.plone.org http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/ngo

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