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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I started developing web applications in Python relatively a long time ago. I tried almost them all in various degrees of depth: Python + CGI, Zope 2, Webware for Python, Subway (who does remember it?), Twisted Web, Nevow, Python + WSGI, Paste, Django, Pylons and maybe something else I can’t remember right now. Nowadays most [...]
As you all already know TwistedMatrix is great to write asynchronous event-driven network oriented programs: define how your protocol responds in case of events, attach some callbacks if you need them, wrap it in a factory and activate the reactor. The reactor runs a giant loop in which events are processed in a non-blocking fashion. [...]
I am still alive, just don’t have time to blog something meaningful. By the way, this is what I am doing/I have done recently: Patched httplib2 to support MD5-sess (at work) Patched soaplib to use httplib2 with the above patch (at work) All the above is because we are interfacing with a couple of SOAP [...]
In this new release of my Campfire API, Pinder 0.6.5, I fixed some bugs and added the methods ping() and topic() (which matches change_topic()) to the Room objects. There is by the way an incompatible change: I do not distribute anymore BeautifulSoup and httplib2 with the library. Go take it!
