Michael W Parks » Python http://michaelwparks.com Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:05:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The State of Python http://michaelwparks.com/2009/01/the-state-of-python/ http://michaelwparks.com/2009/01/the-state-of-python/#comments Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:30:00 +0000 mwparks http://michaelwparks.com/?p=48 Python Atlanta (PyAtl) got off to a great start in 2009 with their January meeting. Steve Holden, chairman of the Python Software Foundationand the author of the book “Python Web Programming“, gave an informative and entertaining talk on the state of the Python community along with some good insight into the workings and objectives of the PSF. As an amusing sidenote Steve mentioned the reason he’s in Atlanta this week teaching a workshop on Microsoft Sharepoint.  Another great presentation was given by Chris Johnson,  owner of Atlanta business ifPeople, on the Plone content-managment system. Plone is a python based CMS built on top of the Zope application server. As usual the pyatl meeting started at 7:30pm and was over by around 9:30pm. The meeting is held in a convenient venue the GTRI Food Processing Technology building on the edge of the Georgia Tech campus.

]]> http://michaelwparks.com/2009/01/the-state-of-python/feed/ 1 Atlanta Python Rocks http://michaelwparks.com/2008/09/atlanta-python-rocks/ http://michaelwparks.com/2008/09/atlanta-python-rocks/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:12:00 +0000 mwparks http://michaelwparks.com/?p=43 I attended Sept Atlanta Python meetup last night. As usual this meetup is packed with info on the latest and coolest in computing…Adobe Flex (as a front end to python of course), an intro to Amazon Web Services, and a Google App Engine app for an iphone. The AWS talk focused on EC2 and the new elastic block storage (think virtual hard drive). And the flex talk highlighted PyAMF which provides the integration between Adobe Flex/Flash and most popular python frameworks.

This meeting everyone introduced themselves…good to see many people were new to python. And I’m always encouraged when I see a bunch of old guys (like me) still hanging in there staying in the game. As a bonus I learned about a cool video training site for python and ruby called ShowMedo and a new blog to follow on cloud computing by a local (to Atlanta) guy, John Willis, who heads up the local Atlanta cloud computing meetup, AWSome.

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