This past couple of weeks, I've seen multiple people ask about timers and how they work either on the wxPython mailing list or on their IRC channel. So I decided it was high time I wrote a couple of example scripts to show how they're used. I will cover two examples, the first of which […]
Last month I found some issues with the TurboGears 2 documentation and the guys on the TG IRC channel told me I should download the docs and do something about it. Alas, I didn't know what I was doing, but with their guidance I got the code and it was mostly set up. Then my […]
Last week, I embarked on an adventure into the world of web application programming. Since my work place uses Python as much as possible and my boss likes TurboGears, I chose it for this endeavor. I have worked through various TurboGears tutorials and thought it looked pretty cool. However, it doesn't take long to discover […]
I received Ayman Hourieh’s Django 1.0 Web Site Development from Packt Publishers a few weeks ago for review. I had worked with Django before when I went through another book on Python web frameworks as well as one of their official tutorials. I had my doubts about this book because it was only 257 pages […]
This month, I finished uploading the videos I had recorded for May's Pyowa meeting. I thought it would be relatively easy to do some recording and uploading, but I think I made it harder than I needed when I bought an HD camera. Here's my story of how I go about recording our meetings right […]
After Pycon was over, I contacted the people on the python group organizers mailing list to see how to get contacts from publishers in the hopes of gathering contacts and acquiring some swag for the Iowa Python Users Group (AKA Pyowa) meetings.
