Epiphany: The User Interface is the Programming Language, and the programming language is the user inerface. In the next 5-10 years, the Operating System of the future will take shape. Epiphany: it will be mobile and wearable.

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This podcast is a review of the new book Natural Language Processing with Python about the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK). I read this book on my flights between LA and Mumbai and really enyoyed it.

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This episode of Python411 is an interview with Sven Passig about his creation of a professional B2B app using IronPython and Silverlight on Mono and the Mac.

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A Visit to Disney Animation Studio, where Python is extensively used; Google Wave uses Python; Android Scripting Environment enables Python on Android powered cell phones; various new books; OSCON, Python 3.1, Jython 2.5 etc.

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A wide ranging interview with Kyran Dale and Ian Ozsvald, the founders of ShowMeDo, the innovative and fast growing learning resource for Python and other open source technologies, featuring video-tutorials/screencasts and learning paths.

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An interview with the creators of Dr. Chrono, a web 2.0 startup to help doctors manage their communication with their patients, created with Django and Python. Also contains feedback from listeners and several recommendations of Python tools and resources

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An interview with Shai Vaingast, author of Beginning Python Visualization, Creating Visual Transformation Scripts, in which we explore, MatPlotLib, Numpy, SciPy, Image Processing, Curve Fitting, GPS data gathering and manipulation, graphing, and more.

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Feedback from listeners about iRobot's Python contolled robot, Unladen Swallow, and more.

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A follow up to the Abstractions podcast-interview with Ron Sparks, in which listeners give feedback about Pythonic tools Pinax, MathWorks Simulink and the like.

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In this Python411 interview, two engineers talk about higher level abstractions and wind up offering a million dollar business idea, to anyone listening, for free ;)).

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Prior to launching into a series of interviews, this podcast primarily talks about the pythonic books and blogs I am reading, my work on my Google App Engine app and the upcoming PyCon.

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A Review of the book "Developing with Google App Engine" by Eugene Ciurana is used to introduce Google's Big Table database and DataStore, the Google App Engine persistence interface I am using for my webapp, a social expert system on the web.

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Got cable? I got cable internet access back, and so Python411 interviews will soon return. This podcast ruminates on the future of Python411, my website, Python and programming itself.

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I reorganized my website, simplifying and streamlining it, putting links to all the best stuff right on the front page at www.awaretek.com including podcasts, tutorials, book reviews, mobile Python resources, etc.

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Python Paella is a podcast about various subjects related to Python including comp.lang.python, the book Python for Unix and Linux Administration, Sage, Pyjamas, and more.

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Excellent feedback on my little Decison Analysis webapp script. Neil Hughes tried it out on a Nokia 6300 running Symbian S40 on a tiny 240x320 screen and it still worked fine, and also on a Sony Playstation with success! Davy Mitchell already shared with me a working Google AppEngine version!

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New Python books abound, a new video training CD from Wesley Chun, and Python 3 itself all results in our cup running over. I finish my WebApp for iPhone (and other mobile devices) and ask for feedback.

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This is an interview with Ian Ozsvald of ShowMeDo, the innovative videocast website devoted to helping people learn Python and related subjects. ShowMeDo is a fabulous part of the Python community and Ian is keen to attract additional videocast creators.

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Collecting data and user input from the web and performing statistical analysis to extract intelligence.

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In which the iPhone inspires me on a quest for the Holy Grail of programming, a user friendly interface utilizing gestures, body language and voice.

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In which I wait 5 hours in line, buy an iPhone, enyoy it, look around for options to program it using Python, discover PyObjC, decide to wait before Jailbreaking, and so continue to explore web programming for cell phones, using CGI and Google AppEngine.

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GoogleAppEngine makes it easy to create CGI style webapps that can use many of Google's tools and api's. These webapps can be formatted for cellphone web browsers as a cross platform cell phone application. Combined with Google Gears for offline use, this is an interesting option for cell phone apps.

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PyCon 2007 podcast series is up and running!

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Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard has upgraded Python support including PyObjC 2.0 and other goodies.

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The future of programming will be a Python based Toolkit/IDE including a drag and drop GUI Form-Creator using extended HTML and CSS standards, facilitating cooperative server side and client side code execution, and allowing for automatic right-sizing of the user interface.

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Web 3.0 consists of Web 2.0 programs for mobile devices, and Nanoprogramming is programming for nanocomputers (embedded and mobile devices) and there is a revolution afoot, the times are a-changin'. Will Python lead the way or fall back?

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This podcast is an interview with Dr. Klaus Muller in Amsterdam and Professor Tony Vignaux in New Zealand about their creation, SimPY, an object-oriented, process-based discrete-event simulation language based on standard Python.

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More about programming for mobile devices, the discussion in the blogosphere about concurrency and Python3000, etc.

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Continuing to explore Python on mobile devices, iPhone, iPod Touch, gPhone, Zaurus, Jython, and PyMite, are discussed.

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Python for Mobile Interfaces is a clarion call for Pythonistas to pioneer the future of alternative user interfaces for mobile phones, PDA's, and wearable computers, including voice recognition, gesture recognition, and wearable computing.

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Python 3.0, Python magazine, Resolver, Vernor Vinge's "Rainbow's End", the future of programming languages, my two family computer scientists-to-be, and other Python related topics.

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Exciting times in my life as I start my sales company in Frequency Control Products, creating the website using Pythonic tools the Maker and Firedrop. Also, I now have 2 children who are going to be Computer Scientists, and upcoming attractions.

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A jovial and wide ranging dinner conversation recorded at PyCon 2007, with Bill Rodman, Chris Merle, and myself. Topics include Python, other programming languages, Gaelic, Science Fiction, podcasting and audio books.

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A request for volunteers to help David Boddie and myself to provide audio coverage of EuroPython in Vilnius, Lithuania July 9-11. Also a few other matters.

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After a brief hiatus, Python411 returns with coverage of Silverlight, Firedrop. the Maker CMS, Codex, Python 3000, Brainbench, Expert Rating, and other topics.

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A guest podcast by Chris Hefele who explores in detail the various Python implementations including CPython, Jython, IronPython, Shedskin, Psycho, Stackless, Parrot, and PyPy. Enjoy!

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An interview with Michael Moran who's new Django application Codex combines the functionality of a blog and a wiki. After talking about Codex, Django, and Python we go really far afield and talk about Google Code, Eclipse, PyDev, Pyjamas and all things code related!

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An Interview with Scott Sheffield

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A talk about Python Advocacy given by Jeff Rush, along with the question and answer session, recorded at PyCon 2007 in Dallas, Texas.

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An interview with Wesley Chun, author of Core Python Programming, recorded at PyCon 2007 in Dallas, Texas.

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Reflections on PyCon 2007, including olpc, Advocacy, Education, Crunchy, jobs, IPython, Tosca Widgets, people, community and more.

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This is an interview with Gerald Spreer, lead developer of "the Maker" an open source web content management system. Gerald and I talked last June and the project has come a long way since then and it is fascinating to hear what he has learned along the way.

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This is an interview with Jeff Rush, Co-Chair of PyCon 2007 in Dallas Texas, active in the Dallas area Python users group and a leader of Python advocacy activities, discussing the building excitement for PyCon and some of the new and interesting plans for this year's conference.

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This is a mini pre-PyCon 2007 State of the Python Union address, including Python 3000, Pycon 2007, the 6 different implementations, and the Standard Library.

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A brief introduction to persistent storage using the standard library modules pickle and shelve

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I just registered for PyCon 2007 in Dallas February 23-25 and here is a preview of the talks I most want to attend.

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An interview with Tennessee Leeuwenburg of the Python Papers, a new online technical journal with great promise!

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The talks and tutorials and keynote addresses for PyCon 2007 (in Dallas Feb 23-25, 2007) have just been announced. It should be the best PyCon yet. Also, more feedback on Python for Cell Phones.

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Just a quick update before I go on a business trip; some useful feedback from listeners following my podcasts about Python for cell phones; running IronPython on my Motorola Q cell phone (Windows Mobile System 5.0); get ready now for PyCon 2007 in February in Dallas; and a call for Pythonistas to interview.

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Since I needed a new cell phone, I decided to look into the various options for running Python on cell phones, and in this podcast I share the results of my investigation.

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Core Python 2'nd Edition covers Python 2.5 and is quite possibly the best Python book ever written. This podcast delves a little into Chapter 11, "Functions and Functional Programming", including inner functions, closures, decorators, generators and coroutines.

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A tutorial lecture on GUI programming with Tkinter by Dr. Sergio Rey of San Diego State University. Part II.

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A tutorial lecture on GUI programming with Tkinter by Dr. Sergio Rey of San Diego State University. Part I.

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An interview with Michael Moran about his work creating a web portal using web frameworks with databases.

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An interview with authors Robin Dunn and Noel Rappin

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An introduction to Threading with Python by Chris Hefele is a guest podcast in the Python411 podcast series.

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Agile Testing with the Python Test Frameworks was presented at PyCon 2005 by Grig Gheorghiu. Although audio files of the 2006 talks are not up yet, there are many good audio files of some of the talks at PyCon 2005 located at http://us.pycon.org/talks.

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An interview with Andy Harris, professor of Computer Science at Indiana-Purdue University in Indianapolis, Indiana and author of several books about computer programming. Andy is working on a new book about Game Programming using PyGame. More information about the book, and a link to his game MailPilot as well as source code and notes can be found at http://www.cs.iupui.edu/~aharris/pgl/python411/

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Upcoming Python Milestones include the release of Python 2.5 and the first production release of IronPython. There is a new version of the Maker. Guido chooses Django, sort of. Duncan MacNeil illustrates how he solved his Windows printing problems with a short Python script.

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A lecture by Dr. Sergio Rey of San Diego State University about Python Modules and docstrings.

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An interview with Sam Feltus, the creator of Sonoma Sunshine, a module to interface Python with Flash, for coding web animations and 3D effects. Also an errata by Dr. Sergio Rey concerning and earlier podcast about Numpy.

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A podcast about PythonCard, a very easy to learn and use framework for creating GUI's, built on top of wxPython. The podcast features an introduction by Ron Stephens followed by the audio from a presentation by Kevin Altis that was originally given at PyCon 2005.

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A lecture by Dr. Sergio Rey of San Diego St. University on Python Data Sturctures, including strings, lists, tuples, dictionaries and sets.

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Python community news from EuroPython including Guido's talk about Python 3000, Alan Kay's talk, the $100 laptop project, new tutorials on threads and concurrent programming, robotics and lingusitics. Comments on the new book WxPython in Action and more.

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The top ten pythonic subjects I would like to interview someone about or host a guest podcast about are discussed on this show.

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A lecture by Professor Serge Rey of San Diego State University about object oriented programming in the field of Geographical Sciences and Mapping. At 1.5 hours in length, the first half is about object oriented principles and concepts in general, the second half is about applying these principles using the Python programming language.

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An interview with Gerald Spreer, creator of the Maker, an open source content management system for web sites.

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A lecture by Dr. Sergio Rey of San Diego State University on numeric programming with Python.

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A lecture by Dr. Sergio Rey of San Diego State University on numeric programming with Python.

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wxPython, SPE IDE, and a new user group in Montreal, Canada

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wxPython is a cross platform, open source GUI toolkit.

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An RPG game created in only one week by Jay Barnson, hear the story by guest podcaster Ryan Lunar.

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socket, socketserver, ftp, urllib, httplib, cgilib and more.

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An Interview with Mike Muller, founder of the Python Academy in Leipzig, Germany

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A Python411 mash-up of topics including Python 3000.

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A Python411 interview with Michael Foord, aka Fuzzyman, Python hacker who has contributed a disproportionate amount and quality of open source projects, applications, tools, tutorials, Pyzine articles, and more in his mere 3 years in the community.

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PyGame

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The Spread Module

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A Report on PyCon 2006 in Dallas, Texas.

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A Preview of PyCon 2006 in Dallas, Texas.

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Python is prefect for learning about Computer Science, including object oriented programmming, polymorphism, inheritance, and encapsulation, as well as algorithms that are exponentially difficult, nlogn algortihms, intractable problems, and Turing's halting problem.

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Well, I'm going to PyCon2006 in Dallas, Texas afterall, along with my beautiful wife and my 16 year old son who willalso be an attendee at the sessions. I heartily recomment that others investigate and sign up to go, the Tutorials will be held on Thursday and the main event on Friday, Saturday and Sunday February 24,25, and 26.

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Ask Merlin is a Python script or program of my own. First, written as a procedural, command line program, it evolved to a functional program, and then to a class based, object oriented program, and then to a GUI based and ultimately a CGI based online script. Its evolution gives a good pedagogical opportunity to discusss classes and object oriented programming.

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More Magic is about Decorators, Generators, Generator Expressions, Exceptions, and Magic Methods.

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Pragmatic Python, Python Standard Library, Pickle, the Python Challenge, Komodo, WingIDE, and Bruce, the Presentation Tool.

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Python and XML, HTML and AJAX

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Python3000 is the somewhat mythical future version of Python and this podcast explores the evolutionary development of Python, past, present and future.

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PyGoogle is a python module for easy and powerful access to the Google API.

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Magic is a Python411 podcast about List Comprehensions, Iterators, Generators, Generator Expressions, Decorators and Sets.

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TurboGears, pyGoogle, Beautiful Soup, Firedrop, and other web programming and feedback from listeners

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Scripting, CGI, random module, Ask Merlin, I Ching, Eliza, new books and Blogarithms.

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TurboGears MegaFrameWork for web programming, Komodo IDE, pyChing and pyNewWings, and hints about future podcasts.

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Jython is the felicitous union of Python and Java, a version of Python written in pure Java that runs on the Java Virtual Machine and gives access to the Java class libraries, as well as the ability to compile Jython code into .class files using the jythonc compiler

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Python's niche may well be as the best general purpose progamming language

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AwareTek's Top 10 Python Web Sites Awards

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Modules, Packages, and Disutils

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Comparing Python to Ruby, Perl, Java, C#, VB.Net, C, C++, JavaScript, PHP etc.

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CGI programming using Python covers basic CGI programming with Python using the cgi module and cgi.FieldStorage(), as well as teh HTMl form and table tags needed.

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Firedrop2 is a weblogging and content management system written in Python by Hans Nowak and supplemented by Fuzzyman with a plugin system. Open source and extensible in Python, Firedrop2 is good tool and a worthwhile learning exercise.

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This podcast is about Tutorials and Books for learning Python.

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This podcast is about Python for Mobile Devices, including the Apple iPod, Nokia Series 60 phone, Sharp Zaurus, iRiver mp3 player, Palm devices, Pocket PC devices and more.

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This podcast is about GUI toolkits for Python

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python411 is a series of podcasts about the programming language Python. This podcast is an introduction to the series

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