One of the session's I've attended was by Adrian Holovarty on Screen Scraping. Adrian (of Django fame) made chicago crime to help the citizens of Chicago. Citizen ICAM, police department site that has a database of crimes but is not user friendly for browsing. Has a pretty bad interface only …

There was another portion of the SDForum meeting titled "Building your startup using Python". It was moderated by the creator of BitTorrent, Braham Cohen and had Steve Kirscho (CEO Propel), Francis Kelly (Founder Loomia), and Peter Yared (CEO ActiveGrid) on the panel. It was interesting to have an assortment of …

As I promised, here is the writeup of Greg Stein's keynote last week at the SDForum Python Meeting. All text in italics are my thoughts. This is a repeat of the talk he gave last year at PyCON. He began with his introduction to python and how he began to …

A year ago I heard Guido say that he wasn't much interested in web frameworks, but apparently "after years of resistance" he's had a change of heart. Sounds like he's going through what every python programmer who wants to deliver web apps goes through. I like the fact that he …

I attended the SDForum Dynamic Language Series on Python this morning. I'll jot down a few of the highlights here.

Guido and the history of python

The program started off with a history of python from Guido. He had two weeks of free time and wanted to implement a language …

A few weeks ago I blogged about what digital format to use for a journal that would eventually be printed at some indefinite point in the future.

I was deliberating between odt and html. OpenOffice gave me essentially what I wanted, but I thought using a text file instead of …

I've been messing around with some really fun python stuff recently for some stuff I'm doing at work and in preparation for my Pycon talk.

I think I'm finally beginning to understand Paste, and since I like CherryPy, I thought I'd try out Ian's new CherryPaste. And just to have …

I've been blogging for almost a year now and have found it quite enjoyable. Writing is quite therapeutic, and it makes you think about stuff a little more than you normally would. One of my most valuable possessions is a 300 page tome, my grandfather printed a few years before …

My buddy Matt has an interesting post on the problems with OpenOffice. I'm sad that Matt misses what I feel is the most important contribution of Open Office.

I would argue that Open Office along with Firefox are two of the most important and successful Open Source applications for the …

Miguel has an interesting post discussing the merits of C#. This was spurred by Nitesh's email with Steve Jobs regarding the geriatric state of objective c. (While the /. commentary was somewhat interesting regarding this exchange, my thought was "How many CEOs spend their Dec 25th emailing random people asking 1 …