Monday I received a wonderful news: I’ve been invited as a guest blogger at the Better Software 2010 conference in Florence, the 5th and 6th of May.
Better Software is a national conference about the business of software, project management, development, agile, web 2.0. opensource and more. I’m really looking forward to attend. The conference program [...]
Lately I’ve been finding myself amazed about the social turn that programming has taken in quite a while.
I started growing as a software developer thanks to the Internet, it and the people on mailing lists/forums/irc have shaped my skills, career and made me discover a lot of great things. I owe the Internet a lot. [...]
Pinder is my Python client for the 37 Signals’s Campfire online chat.
With the excuse of learning Git (by the way GitHub is awesome!) I rewrote it from scratch following the official Campfire API.
Needless to say that it took me very little time. Git is damn fast, Python development is already fast, JSON is basically a [...]
I just finished reading Seth Godin’s “What Matters Now” free ebook and I loved it.
He put together people who think, who have something to say and he made them share something.
Do yourself a favour and download it, it maybe give you some inspiration for a new year’s endeavour.
This morning I gave my talk about Erlang to a room full of Pythonistas (even people standing!) and it went pretty well considering the fact that was my first talk ever. I already posted the slides online on SlideShare.
http://www.slideshare.net/rhymes/erlang-and-python
Tomorrow evening I’m leaving for a trip to London (yes, again!). Just vacation by the way.
I’ll be back on the 6th of May.
PyCon Tre is coming, in fact I’ll be in Florence from the 7th of May to the 10th to attend it. This year I’m going to speak for the first time. I submitted [...]
The third edition of the PyCon Italy is ready, we’ve finally published the schedule!
It will be held in Florence as last year, on the 8th, 9th and 10th of May!
We’ve received several talk proposal, we let the community vote to create a chart and we created the schedule including regular talks, sponsored ones and talks [...]
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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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 [...]
