[Chicago] August Snakes on Apples Meeting

[Kumar McMillan]

On 7/25/07, Brian Ray <bray at sent.com> wrote:
> Planning is going well for the August meeting <http://chipy.org/
> SnakesOnApples>. As I mentioned at our last meeting, we have an offer
> for a venue at UIC. I would like to let them know next week in case
> that is what we choose.  Google will be closer to where C4 is being
> held but I am not sure if they are able to host. Fitz, are you able
> to host?  Apple store is out of the question because it did not fit
> our needs. Alders Planetarium is booked.
>
> We also have a sponsor for food. Thanks Roy Talman & Associates.
> Doug Pratt will be attending.
>
> Regarding presentations, we do not have anyone lined up yet. There
> has been some grumbling. I tried to get some specific mac people from
> C4 to present but most are not flying in until the next day. If you
> know someone or you would like to present, here are some possible
> topics:
>
>    How Python ships on the Mac
>    Mac specific modules part of Python Standard Library
>    PyObj <http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net/>
>    Apple Events
>    py2app
>    Mac Software using Python: ie BitTorrent, Blender, FontLab
>    macholib - analyze the Mach-O binary format
>    wxPython

[time warp ... just moved to Uptown; the dust is beginning to settle]

hrmmm, it's not listed but I could demo some features for editing
python code in TextMate [1] if enough people were interested.  I've
been committing various commands/snippets/syntaxes/ to the Bundles
repository [2] way back since TextMate was in beta (when it sucked!).
There are perhaps a few undocumented bundles that I could highlight.
I don't know if it would be a very exciting presentation; it's just an
editor.  And it's not emacs! :)  It's also commercial, fyi.

[1] http://macromates.com/
[2] http://macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk/  ...and...
http://macromates.com/textmate/manual/bundles.html#getting_more_bundles

Kumar