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Tag Archives: Python
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
Python 3000
Python 3000 (aka Python v3.0) has just been released! Grab your source tarballs whilst they’re hot!
Fun with Sockets
Whilst doing some coding today for my semester research project I found a need to check for incoming data on a socket without taking any data out of the stream. Here’s the code I came up with: cp.sock.setblocking(False) try: cp.sock.recv(0) … Continue reading
Google Code Jam
Just a friendly reminder to you all that Google Code Jam 2008‘s qualifying round opens today. Code Jam is an individual programming competition, which lets you compete with a number of languages. Qualifying opens at 9AM Australian time, and you … Continue reading
LCA2009: Python Miniconf Proposal
I just posted the following announcement of my proposal for a Python Miniconf to be held at linux.conf.au 2009 to Australian Python mailing lists. I’m posting it here in case anyone has missed it: Linux.conf.au 2009 is to be held … Continue reading
TUCS Tech Talk Photos
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } TUCS Tech Talk #1, originally uploaded by Christopher Neugebauer. As I mentioned previously, TUCS had its first tech talk … Continue reading
TUCS Launch (Tech Talk etc)
TUCS had its launch event yesterday, which consisted of a Barbecue, membership drive, and tech talk. The Membership front was fairly successful, given that we managed to sign up somewhere in the order of 7 new members (which is not … Continue reading
TUCS Launch
Friday was our the first meeting of the new UTAS Computing Society Executive, which incidentally, was the first under our new name (TUCS). Since then lots of progress has been made: We launched our new Website, www.tucs.org.au. We began planning … Continue reading
