Monthly Archives: August 2009

Japanese Translation Poetry

Posted on August 21, 2009 by Christopher Neugebauer

A friend of mine showed me Translation Party. I thought it might be fun to write some poetry with it: My duck, please on the roof of the master. When the roof, ducks quack Ducks quack, trembling with fear of … Continue reading →

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Pythonic UIs

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Christopher Neugebauer

I’ve just been reading Richard Jones’ current project, where he’s implementing a very Pythonic way of creating GUIs (for example, managing gui contexts using Python’s context managers). I’m very very excited, and I hope this sample code shows why: with … Continue reading →

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Open Programming Languages Miniconf CFP Now Open

Posted on August 12, 2009 by Christopher Neugebauer

The LCA2010 Open Programming Languages Miniconf, to be held at Linux.conf.au 2010 in January 2010 (either on Monday 18th or Tuesday 19th January), invites presentations about all programming languages with an Open Source implementation, such as Perl, Python, C, PHP … Continue reading →

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Announcing the LCA2010 Open Programming Languages Miniconf

Posted on August 9, 2009 by Christopher Neugebauer

You may have caught the announcement yesterday about the miniconfs accepted for Linux.conf.au 2010 (to be held in January in Wellington) and noticed my name there… I’m running one of the miniconfs this year, along with Jacinta Richardson. It’s called … Continue reading →

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