Tomorrow I fly to Italy to make my way over to EuroPython 2011 in Florence. I am tremendously looking forward to it! With 5 days of talks and 2 days of sprints (though probably only one for me) this will be the longest conference I've ever attended, we'll see how …

Another interesting PyCon talk to watch was Best practices for impossible deadlines. One of the tools mentioned in the talk is Bees with machine guns, a load testing tool that uses the power of EC2 and with a name like that I was gleeful thinking about the day when I …

After a few months of owning a N900 finally came the itch to write an app for it -- using of course Python! The Maemo documentation is excellent, I'm only putting my notes down here for future reference.

First off, making sure to know which version of Maemo is on the …

Last Thursday was my first attempt at setting up "Python Office Hours", an evening during which people starting out with Python are welcome to drop in with questions, problems or just to work on beginner projects with someone who can give a hand within reach.

It probably wasn't a success …

I've decided to try something different and will be holding Python "office hours" in Tog on Thursday evening. It's not really a secret but I'm not exactly advertising it either. I sent an email to my former students for Thursday's test run, and depending on how it goes I may …