From: Ted Roche Subject: [Python-talk] PySIG 26-Oct-2006: lambda, meld, SciTE and cookies Date: Monday, October 30, 2006 18:06:21 Eight Python enthusiasts waded through the challenging parking brought on by political candidates surrounding WMUR to attend the October meeting of the Python Special Interest Group at the Amoskeag Business Incubator in Manchester. We started a trial of an early session with this meeting: show up at 6:30 and it's open Q&A until 7 PM. There were a number of good questions, and the answers sounded pretty good, too! I emceed the meeting, as Bill was one of the presenters, but Bill had prepared an agenda as well as handouts, so mostly I just had to read the script. Thanks to Janet and Lloyd for out-doing themselves with awesome cookes, muffins and tarts. Yum! Lloyd Kvam of Venix did a great presentation on lamda, Python's inline function capability. We exercised a number of these capabilities, worked up a couple of examples on the fly and had some good "Ah-ha!" experiences along the way. Bill Sconce's presentation was one of his "Python Development Series" discussing the environment for productive Python work. Bill demoed and discussed meld, subversion, SciTE, and how they tied into a tight development environment that saved neurons and timeslices by making the most common functions an easy-to-remember keystroke away, improving the ability of the programmer to stay in the flow of development. Bill had some great handouts, a link for which I hope we'll have soon. The next meeting is the fifth Thursday, November 30th, to allow for the Thanksgiving holiday. Cole Tuininga will talk about his experiences with the epydoc system (http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/) and Bill Sconce will present Alex Martelli's slides from a recent presentation on "What's New in Python 2.5" Should be a good show! Thanks to the Amoskeag Business Incubator for providing the facilities, to Lloyd and Bill for their presentations, to Bill Sconce for coordinating and promoting the meeting and to Alex Hewitt for the networking support! Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Python-talk mailing list Python-talk@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/python-talk