April 2008 Meeting
Day of week, Month day-num at Xpm, placename.
- (Thanks to Saturday House for arrangements.)
Attendance
- People
Talk
Add things you'd like to talk about here:
- Leo - How do you keep track of repeating stuff with variable due dates?
- Poorly.
- GTD - but it's easy to fall off
- Franklin Covy(sp?) planners
- Builtin datetime module
http://labix.org/python-dateutil and various other date utils apparently. None of us know the differences between them.
- Chris - How do I store map / GIS data in a database.
- store 'map stuff' in the file system
use postgres - http://www.postgis.org/
use geodjango on top of postgis - http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/GeoDjango
shapely - http://zcologia.com/news/478/shapely-geometries-for-python/
PyCon 2008 redux
- Much bigger this year, etc
- Overview of the conference.
PyCon 2010 bid
- we've got about two weeks if we want to put in a bid. cooperate with seattle plone folks?
- or should we do a regional conference?
- or another sprint or two? cooperate with a distributed sprint?
- encourage mini-sprints at Saturday House?
- Cow chip cookies are close by and very good. (Yestler and 1st)
- Mark - "How I [Failed/Succeeded/am still muddling through] in converting a C++ shop into a Python shop.
- Very old-school C++ shop.
- How to encourage Python instead.
- Chris - Started doing his own stuff in Python. Did one Project with two other devs - one of them never really got it.
- We wandered off into language comparison, IDE users vs not, debugger users vs print statements.
PyDev has a great debugger - it can hook into a web-request for example.
- Google app-engine - yea!
Post-Meeting Talk