PyCon Ireland begins tomorrow! There might be a few tickets left to be bought at the door, if you haven't gone one yet. I am looking forward to it immensely, and should probably head to bed soon if I want to make it in time for the early start :)

• An interesting project is brewing up in Camara to provide IT Support for Irish schools. I'm keenly looking forward to the first meetup to hear more about it.
• Another cool LWN article on Bringing open-source to schools that I'm only properly catching up on now. The projects linked to are …

From the GUADEC blog:

1. Who are you and what do you do?

I'm a software developer from Dublin, Ireland. Passionate about open-source and education.

2. How did you get into GNOME?

Gnome has been the default desktop for most distro I've used. After a while I decided to see if I …

Urgh, I've been desperately trying to get back on top of my inbox since studying for the exam. I think this week-end I might win the fight!

In the meantime, 2 interesting links on education & technology:

• Brian talks about Irish schools and ICT. This gives an interesting view of the …

If you're studying for the SCJP exam, this is **the** book.

The structure of the book is beautiful, although the chapters vary wildly in length. Every paragraph has bold, visible headings for easy navigation, there are side-bars of all sorts everywhere, the most useful being the "exam watch" which highlight …