And so it begins...
23 Sep
I've just finished watching the first season of Babylon 5. I started watching on the 11th, which means almost two weeks to do the 22 episodes. I was pretty good initially - an episode a day, but weekends and the story made that hard to do forever. I've ordered the second season - still whole days until that arrives - probably only Wednesday. I'm not sure what I'm going to do!
I'm starting out on another TurboGears project - this time using the TG 1.1-destined choices for templating and database access - Genshi and SQLAlchemy. TG's use of setuptools really makes life easy...
Movement on engal
20 Sep
After a brief hiatus, I'm back hacking on Engal. This mostly sees the introduction of the Wow I Can't Believe They're Not Tags, which is yet another poor attempt at tag hierarchies and categorisation.
Tonight I attended the South African Computer Olympiad prize-giving event, having been invited by the great folks at The Shuttleworth Foundation. As I mentioned before, TSF offers additional prizes for the top 5 Python users. This year, 12 of the 15 finalists used Python - and the top three all did. Enrolment also over doubled to 32000 in the first round this year.
Kid match template fun
13 Sep
I haven't yet had the opportunity to spend much time looking at Genshi (nee Markup), which will probably follow Kid as the default templating engine in TurboGears. One thing Kid lets me do that it doesn't yet seem obvious to me how to do in Genshi is this trick.
Sabre Rattling
11 Sep
I treated myself to the first season of Babylon 5, with the plan to watch the whole series again. I've just watched the first episode (I'm trying to pace myself). The show has aged well - it isn't as cheesy as I feared it might be (I might need to wait a while), and the the production quality is much better than I thought - probably because I watched first Babylon 5 on pretty poor reception on television. I'm really looking forward to watching the episodes both in order and without missing any.
Two years back, when PyCon was in DC, I was looking at how much it would cost to go. I did the same for this year's Addison-based event, and now I'm looking at how I could make PyCon TX 2007 the first one I go to.
The launch meeting of the Cape Town Python Users Group happened this afternoon from 13:30 to 18:00 (give or take). 95 people registered to attend, and quite a decent turnout was achieved. The five talks covered Python topics in science, web development, and the general language. I did a Quick TurboGears Overview as the final presentation - feel free to look at the slides and adapt them if they're useful. Looks like there's a lot of interest for more meetings!
The nascent CTPUG is having their first meeting on Saturday. If you haven't already done so, join the mailing list, and then head on over and register for the event. Time, programme, and directions are all on the registration site.
In May we were pretty ecstatic with the 15354 downloads on Sourceforge, and after settling down a bit between 13000 and 14000, we hit 16254 downloads of KnowledgeTree in August. We're still finding our way in terms of generating interest, but it seems it is growing organically without it.