DFW Pythoneers had a Successful Holiday Meeting

[Jeff Rush]

The DFW Pythoneers had a great meeting this past Saturday, with 8 people 
showing up on the holiday weekend.  We discussed Python descriptors, 
properties and lazy/cached computation, and then went into an informal 
discussion about metaclasses and played with a simple example.  The ideas we 
covered took a bit of effort to get your head around, but everyone seemed to 
appreciate their value when we wrapped up.

For those that don't know, the more formal presentations for our club are 
archived at:

https://dfwpython.org/repo/Presentations/

     * 2005-07-17-Serving-Web-Content-using-Python/
     * 2005-08-17-Storing-Data-using-Python/
     * 2006-03-25-About-Python-Eggs.odt
     * 2006-03-25-About-Python-Eggs.pdf
     * 2006-06-24-Python-Design-Patterns.odt
     * 2006-06-24-Python-Design-Patterns.pdf
     * 2006-07-08-Python-Design-Patterns-2.odt
     * 2006-07-08-Python-Design-Patterns-2.pdf
     * 2006-07-08-Python-Design-Patterns-Handout.odt
     * 2006-08-12-Python-2.5.odt
     * 2006-08-12-Python-2.5.pdf
     * 2006-08-12-Python-Design-Patterns-3.odt
     * 2006-08-12-Python-Design-Patterns-3.pdf
     * 2006-11-25-FunWithDescriptors/

And we have a slowly growing set of club projects at the following page.  Note 
however that many of them are experimental or unfinished, so don't expect 
polished ready-to-run source.

https://dfwpython.org/repo/Projects/

     * DBUS/
     * GnomeApplets/
     * HalResponder/
     * MailClients/
     * PongInvaders/
     * PyCon/
     * PyIE/
     * TwistedAddressbook/
     * TwistedBase/
     * TwistedCalendar/
     * TwistedTaskmaster/
     * challenges/
     * googlewhack/
     * rpmcleaner/

Last, at a recent meeting I went over the infrastructure of the Python 
advocacy website I'm working on, written in Zope 3.  Still a bit rough, for 
those who've asked, here is where you can find the source:

   https://svn.python.org/www/trunk/advocacy.python.org/

I hope to see you at a future meeting.  For meeting details, check out:

   http://python.meetup.com/10
   http://www.dfwpython.org

Jeff Rush
DFW Pythoneers Organizer