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Web of Data
Adam Bosworth of Google gave a great keynote speech this morning at the MySQL Users Conference, focusing on doing for data what HTML over HTTP did for content. This is an interesting and slightly uncomfortable idea for database folks in the sense that it relies not on a centralized database but on harnessing data on [...]
The PyCon Experience
Although I love using Python, I hardly consider myself an experienced programmer. So I wasn’t sure what to expect from my first PyCon, which began today at GWU’s Cafritz Center. But the sessions I attended were accessible, useful and even entertaining. I didn’t feel like an insider, but I wasn’t a total outsider, either. I [...]
PyCon 2005 Preliminary Program
Here’s some good reading - the early schedule for PyCon DC 2005 was posted last night. Some really interesting stuff there, even for a relative newcomer like myself. I’m looking forward to the sessions on databases, iterators and the Mac. And then there’s my vote for the most intriguing talk: “How to Build an Air [...]
Python Training
I’m pretty pleased with the Python training class that I’m in the midst of this week. Mark Lutz, the instructor, is low-key and affable and presents concepts pretty well. The one downside is my lack of programming background - a lot of concepts are easily explained in terms of other languages, which I don’t know. [...]
Python Training
I’ve registered to attend one of Mark Lutz’s Python training sessions in Colorado in October and am really looking forward to it. This is sort of a make-up for missing the 2004 Python conference here in D.C. last March, when work commitments made it impossible to attend. It’s better, anyway, that I can get this [...]
