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An Interview with Ian Ozsvald about ShowMeDo
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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Programming Collective Intelligence: A book review.
Collecting data and user input from the web and performing statistical analysis to extract intelligence.
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iPhone Satori: The programming language is a user interface and the user interface is a programming language.
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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Apple iPhone and Python
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 and Mobile Phones
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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Happy New Year, Pythonistas!
PyCon 2007 podcast series is up and running!
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Python on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
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
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 and Nanoprogramming
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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SimPy
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 Mobile Musings
More about programming for mobile devices, the discussion in the blogosphere about concurrency and Python3000, etc.
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Smartphones, PDA's and iPod's
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
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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from __future__ import *
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
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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My Dinner Conversation with Bill Rodman and Chris Merle at PyCon 2007
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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pre-EuroPython Special Edition
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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Python411 Returns
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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How Python Runs
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
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
An Interview with Scott Sheffield
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Python Advocacy
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
An interview with Wesley Chun, author of Core Python Programming, recorded at PyCon 2007 in Dallas, Texas.
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PyCon 2007 Reflections: the PodCast
Reflections on PyCon 2007, including olpc, Advocacy, Education, Crunchy, jobs, IPython, Tosca Widgets, people, community and more.
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An Interview with Gerald Spreer
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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An Interview with Jeff Rush
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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State of the Python Union
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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Persistent Storage using Pickle and Shelve
A brief introduction to persistent storage using the standard library modules pickle and shelve
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PyCon 2007 Earlybird Preview
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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The Python Papers
An interview with Tennessee Leeuwenburg of the Python Papers, a new online technical journal with great promise!
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PyCon 2007
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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Quick Update
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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Python for Cell Phones
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
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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GUI Programming with Tkinter: Part II
A tutorial lecture on GUI programming with Tkinter by Dr. Sergio Rey of San Diego State University. Part II.
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GUI Programming with Tkinter: Part I
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
An interview with Michael Moran about his work creating a web portal using web frameworks with databases.
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WxPython in Action
An interview with authors Robin Dunn and Noel Rappin
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An Introduction to Threading with Python
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 Python
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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Game Programming with PyGame
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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Milestones
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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Modules
A lecture by Dr. Sergio Rey of San Diego State University about Python Modules and docstrings.
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Python and Flash
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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PythonCard
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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Data Structures
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
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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Top Ten Future Show Topics
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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Object Orientation
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 interview with Gerald Spreer, creator of the Maker, an open source content management system for web sites.
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The Joy of Hacking
A lecture by Dr. Sergio Rey of San Diego State University on numeric programming with Python.
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Numeric Programming with Python
A lecture by Dr. Sergio Rey of San Diego State University on numeric programming with Python.
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Python News and Views
wxPython, SPE IDE, and a new user group in Montreal, Canada
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wxPython
wxPython is a cross platform, open source GUI toolkit.
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