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 …

In the middle of May, I went away for a couple of weeks in lovely Fukuoka, Japan with the goal of expanding my knowledge of Japanese.

Every weekday, I went to a language school, GenkiJACS. On the first day, my level was accurately evaluated through a written test and interview …

Last Saturday I attended CESI 2012, a conference organised by the Computers in Education Society of Ireland. It's a conference aimed at teachers and this was the first time I attended. Even though as an IT professional I wasn't really the target audience, I really enjoyed the talks and left …

The second task for the Teaching webcraft course is about making up profiles for people we're hoping to help. The couple of biographies that follow do not cover it all, but should still be a fair sample :-)

* * *

Jessie is a high school student, and although she thinks about it often …