CPOSC is a small, low-cost, one-day conference about all things Open Source. This year it will be on Saturday, October 17, 2009 in Harrisburg.
The Call for Participation is now open and we are looking for speakers. If you or someone you know would be interested in speaking, please encourage them to send in a talk proposal.
Details about the conference can be found at cposc.org and there’s also a Speaker FAQ with more details. The deadline to submit talk proposals is July 10, 2009.
Please spread the word, and hopefully we’ll see you in October!
ShowMeDo will be publishing a five part series on using Google App Engine. Sounds like they will get you up and running with the SDK and coding a little Hello World app in rather short order.
Believe it or not, I’ve never used any version control to manage anything up to this point. So I decided that as of tonight, I’m going to start using it… specifically, Bazaar (bzr). Why that one and not a different one? I dunno… I guess I liked their website. :)
Anyway, I found a blog post called Discovering ‘bzr push’ that was actually quite helpful for a newb like me. Along with the printable reference card, I think I’ll pick this up rather quickly.
Also, feel free to mock/abuse me for using bzr instead of hg in the comments.
Some of the slides that make use of build-in/out transitions exported to single images, so it doesn’t show each step. For example, in the Web Frameworks slide I included shout-outs to Rails, Django, Merb, Pylons, and TurboGears… but you’ll only see Rails.
If I get motivated, I’ll export it to Flash and upload it.
I have no experience with books from PACKT, and usually lean toward Apress books, but I just ordered Learning Website Development with Django. It has some decent (hopefully authentic) reviews on Amazon, so I figured I would give it a shot.
CPOSC, the Central PA Open Source Conference, is a one-day, multi-track, low-cost conference about all things open source: software, programming, operating systems, community and more. It will take place on Sunday, October 19th at the ITT Tech campus in Harrisburg, PA.
We have a date and a venue, so now we are currently looking for interesting speakers. I’d personally like to line up some more cool Python related talks (especially Django/Pylons related ones). If you would be interested in speaking, or know someone else who might be, please contact us.
Django People: “Django People lists 2164 Django developers from around the world, in 88 different countries. The aim of the site is to help Django developers find like-minded souls near them, and hopefully kick-start some local meet-ups and user groups.”
Django Pluggables: “One of Django’s great strengths lie in its abundant library of 3rd party “pluggable” applications. Need a blog? Grab a few pluggable apps to get you off your feet. The only problem is… they’re so hard to find and keep track of. That’s what we’re here for. We do the work of making sure you’re keeping your pluggables up-to-date.”
Django Snippets: “…a site for users of the Django web framework to come together and share useful “snippets” of reusable code.”
The first release of SPSS was in 1968. I’m rather impressed that SPSS (the company) has remained profitable basically selling one product, SPSS (the program), for four decades.
Here’s a talk from PyCon 2008 about scripting SPSS with Python:
BTW, at Lafayette we used Mathematica which is no spring chicken either. It’s twenty years old this year.
