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• Seeing a Python through your Windows?

  OK, the title might be a bit vague so let me first describe what this is all about: I've been working on Unix and Unix-like systems more or less exclusively for the last nearly 10 years. I switched from Windows to Linux right after the new millennium started and only started to look back a bit thanks to Windows 7. So now, for about three weeks, I can call a Windows-PC my own again (look what Starcraft2 can do to you). Since I'm still very much a Python guy (although I really like quite a few other languages) I naturally want to continue coding Python even on Windows.

  This works pretty well if you don't do one of two things: (1) Prefer Powershell over cmd.exe or (2) require some C-extension for Python (like keyring's Windows integration). Getting all this working will definitely take some time, so in this post I want to write about some of my first steps and impressions.

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  • windows
  • mingw

  2010/08/29 at 20:38:45

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• Packt Open Source Awards 2010 announced

  Nice! Seems like Packt Publishing once again launched their Open Source awards to support OSS projects out there. The awards are a bit CMS focused with two out of six categories being about content management solutions, but far less so than in previous years thanks to three new categories:

  • E-Commerce applications
  • JavaScript libraries
  • Graphics software

  So together with "Hall of Fame CMS", "Open Source CMS" and "Most Promising Open Source Project" there is quite a lot in the pot for the whole community with the winning project in each category receiving $2,500. For more information head over to the PacktPub.com.

  Now I just have to come up with a list of projects to nominate myself. There is just too much great stuff out there :D At least I still have some time. The nominations will close on September 17.

  • opensource
  • awards
  • packtpub

  2010/08/26 at 15:45:55

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• EuroPython2010 videos online

  With every conference each attended faces at least once the problem that there are multiple interesting talks you'd like to attend at the same time. Since splitting yourself is still not an option (although, I'm pretty sure that someone is working really hard on solving that problem right now) I'm always extremely happy when I see some sort of video equipment in the session rooms since then I can probably watch all these missed talks later on.

  And now I can finally watch for instance the Guardian talk I missed at EuroPython2010 thanks to the work of Michael Shanks et al. on blip.tv :D

  • europython
  • conference
  • videos

  2010/08/14 at 06:23:19

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• EuroPython 2010

  Better late than never, I guess. It's now been two weeks since this year's EuroPython in Birmingham (UK) ended and I somehow never found to time to write at least a short summary. Well, at least now I will try to write a not so short summary instead :-)

  Compared to most other conferences I've attended in recent years this was by far the longest. I've so far never been at a conference with 4 days full of talks and while I couldn't even listen to one talk in each slot, I still managed to learn many, many new and exciting things (at least to me). But let's go through the program day by day... or at least only through the most memorable talks.

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  • birmingham

  2010/08/08 at 19:35:00

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• Django 1.2 E-Commerce

  Once again I received a review-copy of a book from Packt, for which I'm again really grateful :-) This time it was Django 1.2 E-Commerce by Jesse Legg. The book tries to introduce you in a tutorial style to how to write a simple e-commerce store using Django core components and some selected 3rd-party reusable apps.

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  • book
  • review

  2010/07/14 at 20:53:57

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