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 …

An overdue post on the latest course I taught, which ended about 2 weeks ago. I taught a group of 9 people (8 adults, 1 teenager) of various backgrounds the basics of programming, using Python. It went well overall, and the class atmosphere was enjoyable.

As mentioned before, I'm teaching programming again, to a group of beginners :) (Although as usual, even in a group of complete beginners there are variations in people's levels and comfort with the subject.)

Congratulations to Python Ireland and the PyCon Ireland committee for the successful 2nd edition of the conference! If you weren't there, you should feel sad. I would be.

Lots of interesting talks and just like last year, a whole bunch of very friendly and knowledgeable attendees to talk to and …

PyCon Ireland 2011 starts tomorrow! If you haven't got your ticket yet, that's tough because we sold out a few days ago! Congratulations, organisers, for what promises to be a fantastic event.

I also seem to have inherited a yellow staff tee-shirt so... Feel free to find me and say …