Yesterday evening Google kindly hosted the GTUG meet-up, which I don't usually attend but considering some of my fellow hackerspace members were speaking on the panel I had to go and *cough*heckle*cough* support.
The first part of the evening was a talk by …
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The Python Code Dojo is a community organised monthly meeting.
A dojo is a place where you go to practice stuff, learning is a continuous process. It's based on the idea of deliberate practice.
Codingdojo.org was started in Paris, where it follows …
The lightning talks were very fast paced (5 minutes) so I only jolted down some project names I want to check out and interesting tidbits, and missed speaker names just about all the time. Sorry!
To easily create diagrams, check out blockdiag. It includes different shapes that make me hopeful …
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2 years and a half ago, SourceForge was all PHP except for one little Python service. SourceForge was originally written in 1999, when Python wasn't so great at the web. After 10 years though, it all started to atrophy.
So SourceForge decided to do a …
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This talk was about non-relational databases. I didn't take a lot of notes :o) The most important morale is probably: don't keep the mind altering substances and the tools in the same shed.
With 2 decades of relational databases, they are pretty robust by now …
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