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Monthly Archives: January 2009

The first Django book “made in Italy” is out

Marco Beri, one of the organizers of PyCon Italy, published the first book in Italian about Django 1.0. It has been reviewed, among others, by Antonio Cangiano! This is great news for the chances of widespread adoption of Django in Italy!

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PyCon Italia Tre is ready to go

The website of the Italian Python Conference, PyCon.it, has been launched. Apart from the schedule and new stuff (that I’ll talk about in another detailed post) the big, big news is that this year Guido van Rossum himself will be there to host a keynote.

I’m thrilled about this because it also means that PyCon Italy [...]

IronPython in Action, book review

I’ve been actively developing with .NET in 2003-2004 but for some reasons I left the whole bandwagon.

Recently I’ve had the opportunity to read Michael Foord’s upcoming book: IronPython in Action and let me say that I found it extremely interesting, and I suggest it to everybody needing (or wanting) to work with .NET from a [...]

Twitter account

I opened a new twitter account in english. I use twitter a lot but only for my personal ramblings and to follow the italian blogosphere. From time to time I found myself wanting to twit in English either to reply to developers, designers and the great minds of the IT world or post about my [...]