The general view of open-source communities when standing at the edges is probably a vision of endless flames, strong personalities clashing, patches being ripped to shreds on mailing-lists, RTFMs, and the general need to have a thick skin when going in there or being crushed to pieces. The high-profile projects …

Shame on me for not blogging about PyCon Ireland this year, another success where I happily spent a big chunk of time greeting attendees at the registration desk and attended some interesting talks.

The stylish volunteers:

In the meantime, I took better notes at the November Python Ireland meet-up, where …

At EuroPython, I happily took advantage of the prepaid SIM card that you could order together with your ticket. However tethering with Wind (Italy) was not to work that simply. On Debian Wheezy I ended up with the following error:

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wvdial: utils/wvtask.cc:409: static void WvTaskMan …

I'm very happy to be going to EuroPython again this year :) Once more the talks I'm most looking forward to are mainly related to scalability, perhaps with a dash of internationalisation/encoding on the side. The tutorial on Django testing with Selenium should be interesting too.

Say hi if you …

Last Wednesday was June's monthly Python Ireland meet-up, this time with a talk by Fernando Ciciliati about message brokers and Python.

After a general  introduction on the advantages and concepts behind messaging, the main part of the talk was about ActiveMQ, a message broker under the Apache umbrella. Fernando explained …