I bought Matt Harrison's book, Guide To: Learning Python Decorators this week to see if I could finally understand what the big deal was about decorators. I've decided to try reviewing this book using Doug Hellman's method of doing a Quick Review and then a more formal in depth review for those of you hardy […]
Last month around the time of PyCon USA 2012, Matt Harrison sent me a copy of his newest book, Guide to: Learning Iteration and Generators in Python. I've been wanting to learn more about generators anyway, so I thought this was pretty fortuitous. Sadly, it took me a month to get around to reading it. […]
I got a new job recently which requires me to move across several states, so I have decided to sell a few of the Python programming books I've bought the last few years. For some reason, eBay's search is broken at the time of this writing, so I'll just list what I'm selling here with […]
The PyCon USA talk videos are finally starting to come online. You can check them out here: http://pyvideo.org/category/17/pycon-us-2012. I'm wondering why they chose this over the miro site that they've been using for the last few years. Maybe someone in the know can comment on that. I noticed the streams I linked to seemed to […]
For those of you who didn't know, Convore is out and it looks like Disqus is in: https://pycon.disqus.com/ I thought Convore was pretty interesting last year, although there were some minor issues. I'll be interested to hear what people think of the disqus system compared to convore though.
I saw on Twitter that you can watch a Livestream of PyCon here: http://streamti.me/ It seems to work and there's even a Twitter feed along the bottom of the site. Check it out if you didn't make it either!