Mac OS Automator: Doing things over and over is over.
Google engEDU
58 min – 27-Jun-06

Google TechTalks
June 27, 2006

Sal Soghoian

ABSTRACT
Mac OS X "Tiger" introduces Automator, a new application that automates anything on your computer quickly and easily. Join Automator Product Manager Sal Soghoian as he demonstrates how you can use this incredible tool to make using your Mac productive and fun Read the rest of this entry »

Some Python Integrated Development Environments
Google engEDU
1 hr 17 min – 13-Jul-06

Google TechTalks
July 13, 2006

Bay Area Python Interest Group

http://baypiggies.net/

Topic: Emacs
Presenter: Marylin Davis

Marilyn Davis is the Python Instructor at UCSC-Extension. She is the lead developer at Maildance.com and Deliberate.com.

Topic: Vim
Presenter: Keith Dart

Keith Dart works in QA automation and is the primary developer of the PyNMS network application framework.

Topic: Xcode
Presenter: Mark Ivey

Mark Ivey is a senior engineer at R2 Technology. Although his job doesn’t involve a lot of Python, it is his preferred evenings and weekends language.

Topic: Wing IDE
Presenter: Mike Cheponis

Mike Cheponis is President of California Wireless, Inc., a Silicon Valley consulting firm that specializes in Wireless Communications Systems, designing RF, Analog, Digital, and software subsystems and products. He writes code in assembly languages, Lisp, and Python. Read the rest of this entry »

Mercurial Project
Google engEDU
50 min – 19-Jun-06

Google TechTalks
June 19, 2006

Bryan O’Sullivan is a Senior Principal Engineer at QLogic, Inc, where he works on HPC clustering and compiler technologies. He likes to write software tools that help other engineers, and to build interesting distributed systems. He is an enthusiastic rock climber of sadly limited facility.

ABSTRACT
Mercurial is a free distributed revision control system. It focuses on conceptual simplicity, robustness, and high performance. Well-known open source projects that use Mercurial include OpenSolaris, Xen, and One Laptop Per Child.This talk presents some of the advantages of using Mercurial to manage large, fast-moving projects.

We give a brief overview of the techniques used to achieve, in Python, a level of performance that outshines most other revision control systems. Finally, we introduce some novel revision control techniques that take advantage of Mercurial’s extensibility and high performance. Read the rest of this entry »

django: Web Development for Perfectionists with Deadlines
Google engEDU
1 hr 14 min – 26-Apr-06

Google TechTalks
April 26, 2006

Jacob Kaplan-Moss

ABSTRACT
Django is one of the premier web frameworks for Python, and is often compared to Ruby-on-Rails. Jacob is one of the lead developers on Django. Read the rest of this entry »

Python 3000
Google engEDU
1 hr 7 min – 21-Jul-06

Google TechTalks
July 21, 2006

Guido van Rossum is a computer programmer who is best known as the author and Benevolent Dictator for Life of the Python programming language.

ABSTRACT
The next major version of Python, nicknamed Python 3000 (or more prosaically Python 3.0), has been anticipated for a long time. For years I have been collecting and exploring ideas that were too radical for Python 2.x, and it’s time to stop dreaming and start coding. In this talk I will present the community process that will be used to complete the specification for Python 3000, as well as some of the major changes to the language and the remaining challenges. Read the rest of this entry »