http://www.eth0.net/blog Packet pushing, monkey-style Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:37:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Aaaaaaaaand October notes... Kent's Korner this month was an introduction to the Python unittest module. After Kent's presentation, a discussion on unit testing ensued, talking more about the unittest module, Java's unit testing package Junit, and another popular Python unit testing package nose. We then moved on to our main presentation, where ... http://www.eth0.net/blog/?p=16 Catching up on last month's meeting (at this month's meeting no less!). Kent was originally going to present about the new features in Python 2.6, but was unfortunately unable to attend at the last minute. We plowed along, with Bill leading the discussion, walking through  the what's new page. This lead to ... http://www.eth0.net/blog/?p=15 I've been a bad doobie and not been posting PySIG bits for the last month or so. Ray kindly shared his notes from his August talk about the Yahoo BOSS API. I've converted that to PDF and the notes are available here. -Shawn http://www.eth0.net/blog/?p=14 Back after a few months missing! Arrived late, which seems to be the standard for me lately... As I sat down, folks were discussing goings-on for Software Freedom Day. For some more multimedia Python related Internet content, you can check out the Python411 podcast at Python Learning Foundation and Python Tutorial Screencasts ... http://www.eth0.net/blog/?p=13 Arrived later than usual, traffic on Rt. 3 was extra retarded. Start planning for Software Freedom Day activities. This year it's on September 20, 2008. Kent asked about accessing existing C++ code from Python. Arc recommended Boost or possibly SWIG. Shawn mentioned that if you need to access C libraries, ... http://www.eth0.net/blog/?p=12 8 attendees geeked out on Python. Lots of upcoming events. NEAR-fest is May 2nd and 3rd. Red Hat Summit is in Boston this year, June 18-20. Running concurrently with RH Summit FUDCon Boston, running over the weekend of June 19-21. Ted brought up PgCon, a PostgreSQL conference, May 20-23 2008 at the University of Ottawa. The ... http://www.eth0.net/blog/?p=11 I've arrived a little late to tonight's meeting so apologies for any omissions... The success of Software Freedom Day activities by PySIG members has led to open source "Tech Talks" at the Lawrence Library in Pepperell, MA. Mark has been wanting to continue using a piece of orphaned DOS/Windows software and ... http://www.eth0.net/blog/?p=10 Here’s a link recap of topics brought up at PySIG. Using Dabo as an application framework and for it’s GUI design tools came up in discussion. Kent told us about a new O’Reilly book coming soon, Head First Programing. This book is an introduction to programming and uses Python as the language ... http://www.eth0.net/blog/?p=9 Just a quick post to distribute links from my PySIG talk from tonight. paramiko, the Python SSH2 module, is located at http://www.lag.net/paramiko/ The source for the python scripts demonstrated can be downloaded here NOTE: You will need to copy interactive.py from the demos/ directory of the paramiko distribution to somewhere in PYTHONPATH in ... http://www.eth0.net/blog/?p=7 What a fun time it's been! I've been playing in the same Dungeons and Dragons adventure with friends with over a decade now. I had rolled up a character, for what was to be Paul's game, and then I promptly moved to Memphis, TN (and Paul promptly moved to ... http://www.eth0.net/blog/?p=6