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Titus Brown is speaking at the Michigan Python User Group in Ann Arbor tonight. Titus, who recently started his new job teaching at Michigan State, will speak about that job as well as his work with the Python Software Foundation (PSF). I'm interested...
It's the first full week of the month. Hoping I'm able to get away for some user group meetings. On Wednesday August 6, AACS ( Ann Arbor Computer Society ) has Eric Inancich discussing Ruby and Domain Specific Languages. The meeting starts at...
The end of the month is sort of light on tech events in Ann Arbor, but STILL there are things to do within driving distance! PyOhio is going on in Columbus, Ohio on Saturday July 26. It's a free event, and includes talks, open spaces, lightning talks...
Even though it's summertime, there are still a lot of meetings in Ann Arbor this week, and next. On Wednesday, July 2, Chris Sellers will be talking about Amazon EC2 at the Ann Arbor Computer Society meeting. That meeting will be held at SRT Solutions...
Thursday night, June 19, SRT's very own Darrell Hawley will be speaking on IronPython at the Greater Lansing Area .NET User Group. If you read his blog , you will know that he's been working hard on this talk, refining the content as well as his...
It's the first week of the month again ... so there are user group meetings galore. Wednesday, June 4 at 6:00 pm is the Ann Arbor Computer Society meeting. The topic is PostgreSQL 8.3 and Beyond. PostgreSQL is a free and open source database. The...
I attended my first PyCon this year. It was in Chicago, and I was able to take Amtrak from Ann Arbor to Chicago (for only $27!). The trip was quite pleasant, and I will say that I am definitely going to take Amtrak to Chicago again in the future. My kids...
Yes, it's the first week of the month again. The Ann Arbor Computer Society meeting is tomorrow night, April 2, at 6 pm. Jay Wren will be speaking on the Boo Programming Language and DSLs (Domain Specific Languages). Boo is a statically typed language...
The Michigan Python User Group will do some live coding of one or more of the the Code Kata's from Dave Thomas: http://codekata.pragprog.com/ The meeting will be held at 206 S. Fifth Ave, Suite 200, Ann Arbor, MI. It will start around 7 pm. MichiPUG...
We had a discussion at the office this afternoon that centered around how to attract a younger group of people to the computer user group meetings. We got several suggestions out of this, but are looking for more ideas. First of all, WHY do we want to...
PyCon will be held in Chicago from March 14-16 (with tutorials on the 13th and sprints afterward). Registration is now open at http://us.pycon.org/2008/registration/new/ The tutorials and sessions both look great, and there are also lightning talks and...
It's the first week of the month. Do my children wonder where their mother is? On Tuesday, Dec. 4, Brent Hill of Google will be presenting "Everything you want to know about blogs and RSS". That event will be at the Google office in Ann...
I'm really looking forward to CodeMash 2008. There is an amazing list of speakers. Here's a subset of the talks that interest me (not in any particular order) Testing with Guice, by Dick Wall Dick is a cohost of the Java Posse podcast, which is...
If you haven't heard about the One Laptop Per Child program, it's worth investigating. This is a privately funded project, targeted toward providing laptops to children around the world. The laptops themselves run on Linux, and are pretty much...
CodeMash is a conference that I'm involved with, as an organizer. Next year's event will be held Jan 9-11 (panel discussion the evening of the 9th, with full days on the 10th and 11th), at the same location as the 2007 event: the Kalahari Resort...
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