Archive for August, 2006
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
Chris Lenz has been a major contributor to Trac, and spent a month working on DrProject for us earlier this year. His post in the wake of Guido's endorsement of Django is a thoughtful look at the framework's strengths and weaknesses.
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Sunday, August 20th, 2006
I've updated my roster of project students (appears below the divide): 116 students, of whom 28 have done two projects. I still need to update my map, though, and I don't have birthplaces for the following people:
Lillian Angel
Daniel Charles
Jim Clarke
Victor Glazer
John Greene
Robert Liu
Jason Nolan
Andrey Petrov
David Scannell
Jane Shen
Thuan Ta
Details would be ...
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Sunday, August 20th, 2006
A survey of 32 European countries, the US, and Japan, reveals that the only people less willing to believe in evolution than Americans are those living in Turkey:
I'm surprised no one has cast this as a national security issue. America isn't the world's only superpower because its soldiers are braver ...
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Friday, August 18th, 2006
BarCamp Earth is a simultaneous compendium of Barcamps around the world to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the first-ever BarCamp taking place August 25-27. Local editions will be held in Toronto, Waterloo, and Sudbury (and I still sometimes feel a pang that Vancouver isn't local). There are only 70 spaces ...
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Friday, August 18th, 2006
The second edition of Google's Summer of Code is winding down, so I figured it'd be a good time to post my (unsolicited ;-)) thoughts on what they should do next time around. Here are my starting points:
The world will be a better place if everyone studying software engineering ...
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Thursday, August 17th, 2006
Guido just pronounced: Django is the web framework
Won't be part of the core, but will be as "standard" as PIL or NumPy
This was not what I expected the outcome of my talk would be, but hey, I'll take it ;-)
He hopes that Django and TurboGears will converge
Eric Jones: Enthought Tool ...
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Thursday, August 17th, 2006
Guido van Rossum's Keynote
Python 2.5 coming Real Soon (Sept 12)
Python 3000 is a brand-new revision of the language
Name chosen as a dig at Windows 2000, and so that it couldn't possibly be late
Fix design bugs dating from 1990-91 + get rid of deprecated features
First time Guido has allowed himself to ...
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Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
Ambient Vector has started a series of tech talks. Their first guest was Nick Koudas, from U of T. May seem like a small thing, but there haven't been as many ties between the university and local software companies (other than giants like IBM) as there ought to be --- ...
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Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
We were listening to Bruce Cockburn on the way up to the cottage last Friday. "Lovers in a Dangerous Time", "Rumors of Glory", "Wondering Where the Lions Are", and so many others are gorgeous, but the line that stuck in my head was, "The trouble with normal is it always ...
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Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
I'm flying down to CalTech this evening to give a talk on Software Carpentry at SciPy'06. There's been a fair bit of traffic on the web site in the last couple of weeks, and I'm looking forward to hearing how else we can help scientists and engineers become more ...
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