ZPUGsters:

We have a meeting scheduled for March 7. This is our "Python-oriented"
meeting , but we don't yet have a presentation scheduled. Anyone have an
ideas, or want to volunteer to give a presentation?

Following that, on March 17, Alex Clark will be presenting on "Getting
Help on Plone in IRC" (a really important topic if you aren't very
familiar with IRC, as it's the best way to get support for Plone). I'll do
a mini-presentation on ArchGenXML, a great way to create Archetypes from
UML diagrams.

On April 4, we may be lucky enough to have a local rock star present on
his Python RDF library. But that's not confirmed yet.

Anyway, if you have ideas for March 7, let me know.

- j.

P.S. If you haven't seen, we made the largest Plone logo in the world
yesterday:
http://sprint.telesis.at/photos/hike_up_the_mountain/Crw_5284.jpg/view
--
about 70m in diameter :)

About the picture, etch it into a desert somewhere, and make future 
generations wonder if this was a message to the aliens

for the confused:
http://www.traveladdicts.connectfree.co.uk/Peru/Nazca_lines.htm

and go take a break fer crissakes :)

Monkeyshell, a good topic for a python related tech? Anyone seen this 
yet? It's a way to execute shell scripts on a target box using an http 
query string request...

/got nothin?

james

On Feb 25, 2005, at 7:22 PM, Joel Burton wrote:
[...]

Hi Joel - I am very interested in knowing the ArchGenXML <-> workflow
portions (I am certain others are too...)  I presume you use State Charts;
what limitations do you have?  Can you do decision points? If you could
inlcude that in your presentation, that would be great!

Cheers!
Paul


-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Burton
To: zpugdc(at)lists.zpugdc.org
Sent: 2/25/2005 7:22 PM
Subject: [ZPUGDC] Python presentation for next meeting?

ZPUGsters:

We have a meeting scheduled for March 7. This is our "Python-oriented"
meeting , but we don't yet have a presentation scheduled. Anyone have an
ideas, or want to volunteer to give a presentation?

Following that, on March 17, Alex Clark will be presenting on "Getting
Help on Plone in IRC" (a really important topic if you aren't very
familiar with IRC, as it's the best way to get support for Plone). I'll
do
a mini-presentation on ArchGenXML, a great way to create Archetypes from
UML diagrams.

On April 4, we may be lucky enough to have a local rock star present on
his Python RDF library. But that's not confirmed yet.

Anyway, if you have ideas for March 7, let me know.

- j.

P.S. If you haven't seen, we made the largest Plone logo in the world
yesterday:
http://sprint.telesis.at/photos/hike_up_the_mountain/Crw_5284.jpg/view
--
about 70m in diameter :)
[...]

yes, for sure, more info on this would be great.

On Feb 26, 2005, at 9:26 AM, Boos, Paul M. wrote:
[...]
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David Diskin, david.diskin(at)verizon.net

On Feb 25, 2005, at 7:22 PM, Joel Burton wrote:
[...]
Hmm, I could easily pontificate on how easy it is to write C bindings 
to Python.   Or alternatively, we could talk about how to do various 
datastructures in Python, e.g. "how not to do it like you're writing 
VBscript."

In general, I don't know what the various emphasis of 
scripting/coding/programming of the audience is.

If it *hasn't* been done yet, a look at how the python builtin methods 
work might be useful, e.g. how getattr() calls __getattr__() and how 
that's used in Zope to provide acquisition etc.

You can do a lot of clever things with getattr.  You can easily see how 
the cPickle module is used to pickle objects, which makes it fairly 
easy to roll your own mini-persistence engines.  One thing I did that 
used this was a "virtual tape stacker" for the Amanda backup software [...]

Matthew T.Kromer wrote:
[...][...][...]
Yes yes yes, I would love to here tht kind of stuff. Anyone else???

~r

Works for me!

On Feb 28, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Reed L. O'Brien wrote:
[...][...]
>>>
>>> We have a meeting scheduled for March 7. This is our  
>>> "Python-oriented"
>>> meeting , but we don't yet have a presentation scheduled. Anyone  
>>> have an
>>> ideas, or want to volunteer to give a presentation?
>>>[...][...]

On Monday 28 February 2005 10:39 am, Matthew T.Kromer wrote:[...]

I'm not sure that C binding would be as useful for our members, but 
the build-it methods would be a great presentation. Can I put you 
down for that?

Thanks! Good seeing you last week.

- j.
[...]

I might say that C binding would be useful for me.. Like right now, i  
am making a scientific app in pythoncard, and although  i could go  
learn at a later stage several ways to speed things up, having a  
presentation on incorporating C (or generically, libaraies or DLL's)  
would make it much more accessible to me to do. Things like iterating  
through a list of objects to be displayed whilst appling vector scaling  
and translation would go much faster, me thinks? eh, just a thought.

I don't think i'm representative of the list, but thought to speak up.


On Feb 28, 2005, at 2:09 PM, Joel Burton wrote:
[...][...]
>>> ZPUGsters:
>>>
>>> We have a meeting scheduled for March 7. This is our
>>> "Python-oriented" meeting , but we don't yet have a presentation
>>> scheduled. Anyone have an
>>> ideas, or want to volunteer to give a presentation?[...][...]