From stuartw at mts.net Wed Jan 14 09:52:57 2009 From: stuartw at mts.net (Stuart Williams) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:52:57 -0600 Subject: [Python Wpg] Remember, WinniPUG meeting in 2 weeks Message-ID: <db6e78040901140652j5b49bda2w510e7caf024b3204@mail.gmail.com> Our next meeting is January 28th, two weeks from now, at the UW (details at http://WinniPUG.ca). I'll be presenting a preview of my PyCon 2009 talk. Below is the talk advertisement. Stuart. If you start your own company or run your own project you can usually choose the programming language, but if you work for a large company there are probably architects and others who keep a tight rein on approved technology. How do you steer a big ship towards dynamic programming languages, and how fast can it turn? Come hear the story of one software developer employee who in 20 months facilitated the adoption of Python as the standard scripting language for an enterprise with 25,000 employees. Leave with ideas for advancing dynamic programming languages in your workplace, and with hope that change is possible. From m.hohner at uwinnipeg.ca Fri Jan 23 23:40:33 2009 From: m.hohner at uwinnipeg.ca (Michael Hohner) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:40:33 -0600 Subject: [Python Wpg] Freelance Python Developer - job post Message-ID: <497A476402000081000237B9@ds1.uwinnipeg.ca> FYI... Location: Telecommute or New York City http://www.crunchboard.com/opening/detailjob.php?jid=5940 Michael Hohner, Librarian Systems & Media Services Coordinator University of Winnipeg Library VOICE: (204) 786-9812 FAX: (204) 783-8910 EMAIL: m.hohner at uwinnipeg.ca WEB: http://library.uwinnipeg.ca/ Media and Publications Review Section Editor Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research (ISSN: 1911-9593) http://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca//index.php/perj/ From feng_liu at umanitoba.ca Sat Jan 24 14:56:05 2009 From: feng_liu at umanitoba.ca (Feng Liu) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:56:05 -0600 Subject: [Python Wpg] Guido started writing the history of Python Message-ID: <20090124135605.ylz6dcvgmc4cw00s@webware.cc.umanitoba.ca> Guido opened a new blog to write the history and his idea when creating Python. There is 4 articles right now. Guido doesn't post very fast. So it's a good time to follow. The blog is here: http://python-history.blogspot.com/ F Liu From stuartw at mts.net Mon Jan 26 09:48:27 2009 From: stuartw at mts.net (Stuart Williams) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:48:27 -0600 Subject: [Python Wpg] Reminder of Winnipeg Python Users Group meeting this Wednesday Message-ID: <18813.52539.62153.209216@gavel.swilliams.ca> Don't forget this month's WinniPUG meeting this Wednesday night, 7:30 p.m. at the University of Winnipeg, details at http://WinniPUG.ca. Stuart. From syd at plug.ca Thu Jan 29 10:17:29 2009 From: syd at plug.ca (Sydney Weidman) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:17:29 -0600 Subject: [Python Wpg] Last night's meeting Message-ID: <1233242249.17122.19.camel@localhost> Very interesting and enjoyable presentation from Stuart Williams on "Python Scripting in the Enterprise", the story of how a large corporation came to adopt Python as its enterprise scripting language -- by relying on evidence-based decision making and without shrill fanaticism or overt Python advocacy. Thanks, Stuart! Toward the end of last nights meeting, I offered to do a presentation on setuptools[1]. However, I've decided that since a) setuptools isn't part of the standard library and b) it is based on distutils[2] which *is* in the standard library, that I would rather do my presentation on (some parts of) distutils rather than on setuptools. As yet we have no topic for February 25th. Suggestions? Regards, Syd [1] http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools [2] http://docs.python.org/distutils/index.html