Pre-meeting topics list
Chandler! - TedLeung
pyBlosxom? - LionKimbro
LionKimbro wants to ask about IETF, IRTF, IESG, IANA, IAB, ISOC, and to talk about URL-less possibilities by way of "local names." (*)
probably not what you meant Personal Software Process
Brian's simple Python corner - BrianDorsey
Linux Fest participation, a speaker or a booth LinuxFest ? - JeffSandys
Unum discussion, how much is 32 degrees Fahrenheit plus 100 degrees Centigrade? - JeffSandys
as seen on PythonEducationalDistribution
March 2004 Meeting
Wednesday, March 10 at 7:00 pm, ConstruxMeetingLocation.
(Thanks to BradeyHonsinger for arrangements.)
Attendance
Talk
(Place names next to people who introduce topic.)
What we talked about:
- Development environent survey.
- Emacs (4 people)
- Vim (1 person)
VisualStudio (2 people, 1 person with ActiveStates VisualPython)
WingIde - Allows debugging cgi scripts, or presumably other remote scripts.
- Free license for people working on open source
IPython command shell (check it out!) (PyCrust is fun, too)
- IDLE
- Using Python for - survey:
- CGI interface to look at data from a PDA, works from XML data extracted from a Palm.
- Handy one-off scripts, systems admin, cheesy installer.
- Windows service which works with a SQL database and manages many terabytes of MP3s.
- Used to write programs. Guido's programming for everybody.
- Small script which opens a picture of aurora data and alerts when it might be possible to see an aurora in Seattle.
- Jeff want's to use it in a middle school to teach languages.
- Guido the robot.
Wikis, PyBlosxom, internet collaboration software, personal log server.
- Build framework - one level above ANT. (look at scons, AAP, ruby: rake)
- Source code metrics.
- Default for anything above a few lines of bash.
- Cuecat scanner.
- Script to kill old Netscape and cleanup logs.
- wxPython mini guis.
- various web templating engines.
- Chandler
- pyBlosxom - blogging package
- Only 5 lines in an interpreter.
- the scripting stuff everyone has done, mining the web
- extending visual studio - output custom documentation from within VS
- nightly unit test runner
mac scripting using AppScripting to use Python instead of AppleScript (allows evil nasty voodoo
)
- Things we WANT
- Cheeta templates in pyBlosxom
- a million bucks
- Things we like (this month)
sodipodi! - SVG editor
- there are tons of python bindings for almost everything
- the nebula device - including python bindings
- colinux
- Things we're looking for
- flash-like multimedia tools in Python
- Things to look into / questions?
http://hapdebugger.sourceforge.net/ - remote debugger
- Can CVS deal with symbolic links? Subversion doesn't yet.
- musicbrains
- Small aside about strong vs weak typing.
LinuxFest in Bellingham on April 17th.
- Should we present about Python? Is there still time? Can we find someone else to talk?
- Get a table?
- Jeff will find out about tables.
- What linux distros are people using?
- RH9
- RH7
- Gentoo
- Debian (apt-fu can build Debian packages from source)
- Knoppix (on various machines)
- FreeBSD (even though it's not linux)
- What Python versions are we using?
- 2.3.3
- 2.2
Unum discussion, how much is 32 degrees Fahrenheit plus 100 degrees Centigrade? - JeffSandys
- Looks like this should really help when doing math with really or fairly complex units.
- Lion's radical talk
One Big Soup Model
Near links, Local Name Server, group servers, then document, thread, blog servers, and other specialty servers.
BrianDorsey mentions:
Post-Meeting Talk
Ride with Lion
Collaborative music over the web, see June 2001 entry at Tim Thompson's site
Geo url - example: Lion's Neighbors - and... an RSS feed, so you can see when neighbors put pages on the web.
We need to go back and add links for things mentioned above.