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Linux.conf.au 2012 Open Programming Miniconf — Call for proposals now open
TL;DR — submit a proposal at http://tinyurl.com/opm2012-proposal before the first round closes on Friday 7 October. I’m pleased to announce that The Open Programming Miniconf, a fixture for application developers attending Linux.conf.au since 2010 is returning as part of Linux.conf.au … Continue reading
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30 Days of Geek: 14 – Favourite Computer Conference
Oh. You probably won’t be surprised to hear this one, but the answer is Linux.conf.au the Australasian Free and Open Source Software Conference. I’ve been attending since Melbourne 2008, and have since “been” to Hobart in 2009 and travelled to … Continue reading
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30 Days of Geek: 05 – Quick nifty hacks you’re proud of.
As it turns out, probably about 90% of the coding that I do these days is in the form of nifty hacks. This is particularly because in research the impetus is not necessarily to have code that is reusable in … Continue reading
30 Days of Geek: 01 – Why do you consider yourself a geek?
Right, so for those of you who missed my announcement a couple of weeks ago, I’m taking part in the 30 Days of Geek blogging challenge throughout November. This is the first of those posts. So this first of those … Continue reading
Open Programming strikes again
I’m very pleased to announce that the LCA2011 organisers have accepted my proposal for the Open Programming Miniconf to be run at Linux.conf.au in Brisbane in January. This is a new, improved, shorter-titled successor to the wildly successful Open Programming … Continue reading
AUC /dev/world/2010 — I’m Presenting!
AUC /dev/world/2010, the Apple University Consortium’s conference for developers working on or with Mac or iOS devices is on again this year, on the 28th and 29th of September, in Melbourne. Last year I presented a talk, and ran the … Continue reading
Pythonic UIs
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
ACM World Finals!!!!
Well, as previously reported here and here, my team, the Mehffort Musketeers had a pretty good run in the 2008 ACM South Pacific Programming Contest. Today, the SPP Contest website announced that we’ve been allocated a Wild Card entry into … Continue reading
Python 3000
Python 3000 (aka Python v3.0) has just been released! Grab your source tarballs whilst they’re hot!
