From cbc at unc.edu Tue May 1 17:14:26 2007 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 11:14:26 -0400 Subject: [triangle-zpug] linky links Message-ID: <46375952.4000604@unc.edu> This is an eight page PDF Python "cheat sheet." CC license. Nothing that isn't in the official docs. Just a quickie at a glance reminder: http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/pointal/python/pqrc/ A Python 101 page. MIT license. Covers a few things not in PyCamp: http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/python_101/python_101.html A Python 202 page. Covers a few things that *were* covered in PyCamp (regex, parsing, quickie unittest): http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/python_201/python_201.html Anyway, in the 201 there is a short piece on C extensions, SWIG, and PyRex. Since we had a PyRex demo at UNC last fall and a ctypes presentation this past month, I think I see C extensions and SWIG presentations in our future. If that's your thing, speak up. :) Especially you, Kurt. :) -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://www.seacoos.org office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 962-4323 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From cbc at unc.edu Tue May 1 23:27:12 2007 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 17:27:12 -0400 Subject: [triangle-zpug] New Python book authored by NC man Message-ID: <4637B0B0.3060303@unc.edu> See this nearly brand new book: http://www.amazon.com/Design-Logic-Programming-Python-Hands/dp/0595408109/ The author, James Burton Browning, is described thusly: "Dr. Browning earned his doctorate from North Carolina State University in Technology Education. He has conducted research in areas including: distance learning, programming, and instructional technology. As a life-long learner and someone who has interests in topics such as: programming, photography, robotics, car restoration, wood working, hunting, reading, fishing, and archery, he is never at a loss for something to do. The art and joy of serving as a professor suits his inquisitive nature and in-fact this book was written to help learners catch the excitement of programming. Dr. Browning and his wife Anne Joyner live in Eastern N.C. with their Siamese cats." Any of y'all know him? Has he been to a TriZPUG meeting? He's done research in distance learning and we used to meet over at NCSU DELTA. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://www.seacoos.org office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 962-4323 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From FDimauro at unch.unc.edu Wed May 2 21:22:01 2007 From: FDimauro at unch.unc.edu (Dimauro, Frank) Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 15:22:01 -0400 Subject: [triangle-zpug] Opportunity for a Web Applications Manager In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Opportunity for a Web Applications Manager in FL...contact the person below if interested.-Frank D. Position Title: Web Applications Manager Location: Tampa, FL Duration: Full Time Required Experience: Experience in Microsoft and Java Applications (MUST). Responsible for web applications suite that includes customer portals, electronic billing systems and claims adjudication system (MUST). Leading a team of 10 - 15 Programmers and BAs. Experience in Healthcare would be a PLUS. Excellent Communication, Documentation and Interpersonal skills are required. Must have GreenCard or US Citizenship. Please let me know if you would like to pursue this opportunity OR if you know anyone who might be a fit for this position. I will really appreciate if you can e-mail me your recently updated resume. Thanks, Pankaj ISpace Inc. Tel - 310-563-3839 Pankaj.Khurana at ispace.com From cbc at unc.edu Mon May 7 16:00:55 2007 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 10:00:55 -0400 Subject: [triangle-zpug] Python Software Foundation News: Sys Admin Magazine Calls for Papers Message-ID: <463F3117.8000604@unc.edu> Paging Brad Oaks and Mark Biggers: http://pyfound.blogspot.com/2007/05/sys-admin-magazine-calls-for-papers.html -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://www.seacoos.org office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 962-4323 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From cjj at ifpeople.net Mon May 7 17:08:20 2007 From: cjj at ifpeople.net (Christopher Johnson) Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 11:08:20 -0400 Subject: [triangle-zpug] Sprint at Google, chance to support/participate Message-ID: <1178550500.4705.41.camel@quebracho> Hi Southeastern Plonistas and worldwide sprinters! (sorry for any cross-postings) I wanted to let you know that there is an important Plone sprint coming up. The community is seeking sponsors (great perks! [1]) and sprinters (in person and remote) for the "doccom" sprint, June 25-29. The site will be at Google's headquarters in California. There are two topics: - Documentation (to ensure that Plone 3.0 is released with full documentation), and - Commerce, to achieve a new version of the product PloneGetPaid that makes payment processing and commerce simple and flexible in Plone. [2] Regarding documentation, this is something that benefits everyone! As you know, Plone has been changing very fast, and the pending release of Plone 3.0 represents a radical shift in the technology and how people will develop for it. Documentation is needed now more than ever. Please consider supporting the sprint either financially [3] or with your participation. For more on the sprint, please check out: http://plone.org/events/sprints/doc-ecommerce You can see a list of interested attendees (and sign up!) at http://www.openplans.org/projects/doc-and-e-commerce-sprint/interested-attendees I will be attending the sprint (so we can "Get Paid with Plone") and look forward to working with any of you either in person or remotely! Let me know if you have any questions or comments. Best wishes, Christopher [1] Sponsor levels include free training! PloneBootCamps and the intro trainings from 7TechNorthwest. See http://plone.org/events/sprints/doc-ecommerce for the full breakdown. [2] Plone commerce has a long and painful history, which we are trying to change with a product called GetPaid (and PloneGetPaid), which leverages Zope3 technologies and will be useful in Plone 2.5. This product was begun at the BBQSprint and has its first release scheduled for June 1, and second release after the doccom sprint. [3] Financial support makes sure the great sprinters have food, shelter, and fun during the time they spend helping make the Plone community stronger (and btw, they are donating their time...). -- ifPeople - Innovation for People www.ifpeople.net t: 678-608-3408 From cbc at unc.edu Fri May 11 18:14:15 2007 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 12:14:15 -0400 Subject: [triangle-zpug] [Fwd: [Baypiggies] Bittorrent is looking for python talent.] Message-ID: <46449657.9070107@unc.edu> Python job below if you don't mind working in the Bay Area for a company with huge potential for legal problems. If you are interested, write me for a long list of Python jobs with Dreamworks in Hollywood. They are looking really hard. It's your basic production pipeline with Blender and Maya kind of work. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://www.seacoos.org office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 962-4323 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 11:35:48 -0700 From: Mark Gentry BitTorrent Inc. is a hot startup with millions of users, tons of media attention, and plenty of funding. We're located in downtown San Francisco, right next to all forms of public transportation. BitTorrent is the global standard for delivering high-quality files over the Internet. With an installed base of over 150 million clients worldwide, BitTorrent technology has turned conventional distribution economics on its head. The more popular a large video, audio or software file, the faster and cheaper it can be transferred with BitTorrent. The result is a better digital entertainment experience for everyone. We have difficult challenging problems to solve and are looking for people who are either python experts or are experts with other languages and have discovered python. We have a very democratic hiring processes we don't care about schools and grades. We care about native ability and passion. Solve the challenge below and send us your resume and we will take a look. Use python to solve the problem. What is the exponent of the largest power of two whose base seven representation doesn't contain three zeros in a row? Send response to jobs at bittorrent.com -- Mark Gentry -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: file:///C|/DOCUME%7E1/CBCOASIS/LOCALS%7E1/TEMP/nsmail.txt URL: From cbc at unc.edu Fri May 11 19:45:21 2007 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 13:45:21 -0400 Subject: [triangle-zpug] Python evolution Message-ID: <4644ABB1.5000907@unc.edu> Nice little synopsis presented at the last Utah Python meeting: http://utahpython.org/data/python202.pdf -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://www.seacoos.org office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 962-4323 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From natea at jazkarta.com Sun May 20 00:54:59 2007 From: natea at jazkarta.com (Nate Aune) Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 18:54:59 -0400 Subject: [triangle-zpug] Plone4Artists / multimedia sprint in Boston - July 18-23, 2007 Message-ID: <8E601053-37F7-4493-ABE3-4CACA55AA4D7@jazkarta.com> I'm pleased to announce the first ever Plone sprint in Boston will be held on July 18-23, 2007! Thanks to our sponsor, the Christian Science Monitor, for providing the space in which to hold the sprint. We are very fortunate to have the use of these facilities in such a beautiful space in the heart of Boston's Back Bay neighborhood! Get more info and register on the sprint page: http://plone.org/ events/sprints/plone4artists The theme for the sprint is to further improve the Plone4Artists suite of products (see http://plone4artists.org), which includes proposed topics such as: Proposed topics ---------------------- - application of Zope 3 component architecture to building products for Plone - handling of multimedia files within Plone (audio, video, images) - embedding externally hosted multimedia content in a Plone site - podcasting and vodcasting - large file handling - bulk uploading using WebDAV, Flash, Java, Zip - calendaring incl. iCalendar import/export, recurring events - tagging, commenting, rating of multimedia (or any) content - and more...! Not just for coders! ------------------------- You don't have to be a coder in order to contribute/benefit at the sprint. There's also a need for persons to write documentation, make screencasts, test the software and share ideas! You are very welcome to come and learn more about the Plone development process and share your experiences as a user and integrator. Optional training ----------------------- Sprinters have an opportunity to receive two days of training immediately preceding the sprint (July 16-17): "Zope 3 Training for Plone Developers" conducted by Rocky Burt, a leading Zope 3 expert, Plone framework team member, contributor to the popular book "Web Component Development with Zope 3", and main developer of the Plone4Artists suite of products. Get more info and register today to reserve your spot! http://plone.org/events/training/zope-3-in-plone Seeking additional sponsors --------------------------------------- Please consider showing your support by contributing financially. Sponsoring the sprint will help to cover costs for the sprinting or for participants' costs getitng there. Sponsoring Plone sprints is one of the best ways to contribute to Plone's development if you dont have the skills/time do the work yourself. http://plone.org/events/ sprints/plone4artists/sponsors/ Hope to see you in Boston! thanks, Nate -- Nate Aune - natea at jazkarta.com http://www.jazkarta.com (Plone solutions, development, training) http://www.nateaune.com (blog, photos, music) From natea at jazkarta.com Mon May 21 06:31:46 2007 From: natea at jazkarta.com (Nate Aune) Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 00:31:46 -0400 Subject: [triangle-zpug] Zope 3 Training for Plone Developers - July 16-17 in Boston Message-ID: Want to learn more about using Zope 3 technology in Plone? Now's your chance to get hands-on instruction from one of the leading Zope 3 gurus in the Plone community: Rocky Burt. We are pleased to announce "Zope 3 Training for Plone Developers" a comprehensive 2-day training course offered in Boston, MA on July 16-17. This course is specifically targeted at the developer already familiar with Plone and Archetypes who now wants to leverage Zope 3 component architecture in their Plone products. More info: http://www.jazkarta.com/services/zope-3-training-for-plone-developers INSTRUCTOR Rocky Burt is a recognized leader in the Plone community, having been elected to the Plone framework team, contributed to the popular book "Web Component Development with Zope 3", developer of many Plone products and author of the Plone4Artists suite of products. Rocky is an expert in using Zope 3 technologies in Plone, and has given various conference/sprint talks on this subject including a three hour tutorial at the last Plone Conference in Seattle. DATES July 16-17, 2007 LOCATION Christian Science Center 1 Norway St. Boston, MA USA REGISTRATION The preferred class size is 10-15, so we encourage you to sign up now to reserve your spot. There is also an early bird special if you sign up before May 31. Please see the training page for the cost and to register. http://www.jazkarta.com/services/zope-3-training-for-plone-developers All participants will receive a copy of Phillips von Weitershausen's book "Web Component Development with Zope 3" (Second Edition). PREREQUISITES Knowledge of Plone and experience developing Plone products with Archetypes. Python programming skills. COVERS Everything you need to know about developing Plone products the "Zope 3 way", using adapters, view classes and interfaces. See the training page for the full agenda of topics covered. http://www.jazkarta.com/services/zope-3-training-for-plone-developers REQUIREMENTS A laptop computer to follow along with this hands-on class. CONTACT Please contact training at jazkarta.com if you have any questions about the training. thanks, Nate -- Nate Aune - natea at jazkarta.com http://www.jazkarta.com (Plone solutions, development, training) http://www.nateaune.com (blog, photos, music) From cbc at unc.edu Mon May 21 19:33:23 2007 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 13:33:23 -0400 Subject: [triangle-zpug] Meeting NEXT WEEK and Plone Boot Camps Message-ID: <4651D7E3.3010207@unc.edu> TriZPUGlians, Due to my utter sloth, our meeting is next week (fifth instead of fourth Tuesday) at 7pm Tuesday night May 29th in the local where we've had Plone Boot Camps and many TriZPUG meetings, 328 Phillips Hall on the UNC-CH campus in Chapel Hill: http://trizpug.org/Members/cbc/may-07-mtg http://trizpug.org/Members/cbc/unc-logistics That gives you a week's notice. Bring your friends. We'll likely go out to Fuse or Milltown afterwards for the after-meeting. We're going back to our old tried and true location in 328 Phillips Hall just for this one meeting while Dave Powell is out of town (and it would be harder then to meet at the School of Pharmacy). Dave has lined up the fabulous Kerr Hall for our next two UNC located meetings in August and November, however, as well as for the upcoming Plone Boot Camps in late July and early August. Rob Lineberger will be presenting a new version of the roadshow on Agile Development he used to do for the Project Management Institute. This should mesh well with the presentation Dave Powell gave three months ago on web development practices. If you have a lightning talk you'd like to make, all you have to do is simply show up with it and raise your hand at the meeting. We are interested in what you've learned about Python/Zope/web frameworks recently and it's great when you stand up and spend five minutes or so telling us about it. No great presentation preparation required. For instance, I had a good experience with TextIndexNG3 this past month and will probably say something about that. Reminder: THREE Plone Boot Camps are coming up at UNC-CH soon, regular, advanced, and intro (for your manager or content creators, etc.): http://plonebootcamps.com/ Tell everyone you know. These are super low-impact boot camps for us. Joel is taking care of pretty much everything we used to have to do. But that doesn't mean sit on your buns. Sign up for camp(s) and help publicize this by telling your interested communities. Joel tells me that 30 people are already signed up for the regular version of the camp (about 10 so far for advanced). Joel will be here for two whole weeks. Let's make him welcome. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://www.seacoos.org office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 962-4323 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From rob_lineberger at med.unc.edu Mon May 21 22:27:00 2007 From: rob_lineberger at med.unc.edu (Rob Lineberger) Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 16:27:00 -0400 Subject: [triangle-zpug] Meeting NEXT WEEK and Plone Boot Camps In-Reply-To: <4651D7E3.3010207@unc.edu> References: <4651D7E3.3010207@unc.edu> Message-ID: <1179779220.5794.35.camel@victoria> On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 13:33 -0400, Chris Calloway wrote: > Rob Lineberger will be presenting a new version of the roadshow on > Agile > Development he used to do for the Project Management Institute. This > should mesh well with the presentation Dave Powell gave three months > ago > on web development practices. In order to foster discussion I have put an overview of the Blur Box model on the TriZPUG site along with a couple of papers that explain the model further. You have a week to read them -- which I recommend you do, because then you'll have lots of ammo. http://trizpug.org/Members/Odonata/blurbox/ From rob_lineberger at med.unc.edu Mon May 21 22:32:38 2007 From: rob_lineberger at med.unc.edu (Rob Lineberger) Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 16:32:38 -0400 Subject: [triangle-zpug] Meeting NEXT WEEK and Plone Boot Camps In-Reply-To: <1179779220.5794.35.camel@victoria> References: <4651D7E3.3010207@unc.edu> <1179779220.5794.35.camel@victoria> Message-ID: <1179779558.5794.42.camel@victoria> By the way, I'd love to hear a lightning talk on SQL Alchemy (or even Alchemist). Any takers? From cjj at ifpeople.net Tue May 22 16:52:07 2007 From: cjj at ifpeople.net (Christopher Johnson) Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 10:52:07 -0400 Subject: [triangle-zpug] GetPaid Update: code, call, fundraising Message-ID: <1179845527.4614.23.camel@quebracho> Hi folks! Please excuse cross postings...wanted to make sure our multiple community circles received the latest update on the GetPaid commerce product which we started at BBQ Sprint. It's an exciting time for a growing community supporting GetPaid - development is underway for our first release! The alpha release, "Red Ochre", has been moving along and we are happy to report on progress, as well as an update on our "social source" funding drive. See the full article (also pasted below) on our blog: http://plonegetpaid.com/updates or subscribe to our feed! Best wishes, Chris -- ifPeople - Innovation for People www.ifpeople.net t: 678-608-3408 -- Show me the code! This past week, Kapil took on GetPaid head on and has been making great progress towards the Red Ochre release! An excerpt: from the admin screens you can now activate content types to be available as buyable, shippable. the admin pages have also switched out to a set of tabbed views from a single view. from within the plone ui navigation, for content types configured for it within the admin screens, you can enable an individual piece of content to be one purchasble, and edit its purchase settings. Read complete update email. The latest also includes work on the shopping cart. If you want to grab the code and check it out, check out the easy process thanks to the use of zc.building! The Getting Start docexplains it all. For those of you anxious for the latest news, we will have a conference call this Wednesday, May 23 at 1pm Eastern for an update on the product's development. Please join us! Dial in to 605-725-3600 with access code 69812 . Social Source Fundraising We realize that commerce is a serious need in Plone's toolkit. We have all been waiting for it to just "emerge" from the community, but unfortunately, it hasn't yet. So...we decided to fast-track that by going beyond the volunteer efforts at sprints to actually fund development. Just as Open Source relies on a group of individuals to contribute to the whole, our "social source" funding model relies on individuals, organizations, and businesses in the community to contribute the pieces that make funding possible. You can seeour ChipIn widget on the site - www.plonegetpaid.com . Our "Red Ochre" Release has a cost of $7,500, of which we have secured $4,500 from sponsors already. Now we are pursuing more community contributions to raise the remaining funds. If you would like to be a sponsor or make a contribution, please check out our Sponsorship page. Thanks to Jon Stahl for getting out our fundraising letter to Plone users list. Sponsors include: - ifPeople - Object Realms - One/Northwest - Contextual Corporation - Totsie.com Read more about our sponsors! Become a sponsor today! -Chris From cbc at unc.edu Thu May 24 15:21:16 2007 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 09:21:16 -0400 Subject: [triangle-zpug] [Fwd: [dfwPython] Join the Python Announce list if you haven't already] Message-ID: <4655914C.8000806@unc.edu> I'm forwarding this from the DFW Python group because when I read it, I realized I wasn't subscribed to this very important list (python-announce). And, oh yeah, don't forget the TriZPUG meeting next week at UNC: http://trizpug.org/Members/cbc/may-07-mtg Or the three upcoming Plone Boot Camps at UNC: http://plonebootcamps.com/courses/unc3 http://plonebootcamps.com/courses/nc-adv http://plonebootcamps.com/courses/nc-intro -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [dfwPython] Join the Python Announce list if you haven't already Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 20:33:10 -0500 From: Brad Allen To: dfwpython at taupro.com DFW Pythoneers: If you haven't gotten around to joining the Python Announce list, here's a reminder. I just now signed up for the first time, having relied on Daily Python and Planet Python to get my news, but this list is important because it's how the PSF gets the word out to the community. http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list I joined today and took a look at the May 2007 archives; it contains various interesting things including a call for Python newbies to get involved in the PEP documentation process and receive mentoring from more experienced Pythonistas: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2007-May.txt _______________________________________________ dfwPython mailing list dfwPython at dfwpython.org http://dfwpython.org/mailman/listinfo/dfwpython -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://www.seacoos.org office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 962-4323 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From adam at hupp.org Thu May 24 16:51:14 2007 From: adam at hupp.org (Adam Hupp) Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 09:51:14 -0500 Subject: [triangle-zpug] [Fwd: [dfwPython] Join the Python Announce list if you haven't already] In-Reply-To: <4655914C.8000806@unc.edu> References: <4655914C.8000806@unc.edu> Message-ID: <20070524145114.GA9645@mouth.upl.cs.wisc.edu> On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 09:21:16AM -0400, Chris Calloway wrote: > I'm forwarding this from the DFW Python group because when I read it, I > realized I wasn't subscribed to this very important list (python-announce). Wow Chris, do you subscribe to *every* python list? :) Thanks for the pointer. I found an RSS feed of the list here: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/topics -Adam From adam at hupp.org Thu May 24 16:51:14 2007 From: adam at hupp.org (Adam Hupp) Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 09:51:14 -0500 Subject: [triangle-zpug] [Fwd: [dfwPython] Join the Python Announce list if you haven't already] In-Reply-To: <4655914C.8000806@unc.edu> References: <4655914C.8000806@unc.edu> Message-ID: <20070524145114.GA9645@mouth.upl.cs.wisc.edu> On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 09:21:16AM -0400, Chris Calloway wrote: > I'm forwarding this from the DFW Python group because when I read it, I > realized I wasn't subscribed to this very important list (python-announce). Wow Chris, do you subscribe to *every* python list? :) Thanks for the pointer. I found an RSS feed of the list here: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/topics -Adam From cbc at unc.edu Thu May 24 20:03:03 2007 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 14:03:03 -0400 Subject: [triangle-zpug] [Fwd: [dfwPython] Join the Python Announce list if you haven't already] In-Reply-To: <20070524145114.GA9645@mouth.upl.cs.wisc.edu> References: <4655914C.8000806@unc.edu> <20070524145114.GA9645@mouth.upl.cs.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <4655D357.5030403@unc.edu> Adam Hupp wrote: > Thanks for the pointer. I found an RSS feed of the list here: > > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python.announce/topics Ah, I meant to include the ever useful Gmane RSS feeds (slice and diced four ways): http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.announce TriZPUG has a similar outlet and I use it when on the road: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.zope.trizpug -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://www.seacoos.org office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 962-4323 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From FDimauro at unch.unc.edu Mon May 28 19:33:16 2007 From: FDimauro at unch.unc.edu (Dimauro, Frank) Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 13:33:16 -0400 Subject: [triangle-zpug] september 15 is SFD References: Message-ID: http://softwarefreedomday.org/ Saturday September 15 is software freedom day. Software Freedom Day is a global, grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of software freedom and the virtues and availability of Free and Open Source Software. Local teams from all over the world organise events on the third Saturday in September. The most recent event involved over 200 teams from all over the world. * Learn more about Software Freedom Day * Find your local team... * ...or start one if there isn't one already! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 2764 bytes Desc: not available URL: From rob_lineberger at med.unc.edu Tue May 29 19:36:30 2007 From: rob_lineberger at med.unc.edu (Rob Lineberger) Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 13:36:30 -0400 Subject: [triangle-zpug] TriZPUG homework In-Reply-To: <1179779220.5794.35.camel@victoria> References: <4651D7E3.3010207@unc.edu> <1179779220.5794.35.camel@victoria> Message-ID: <1180460190.5807.7.camel@victoria> If you're attending tonight's TriZPUG meeting (at 7pm in 328 Phillips Hall on the campus of UNC) then here's a little bit of homework. Don't worry, it won't hurt much. If you aren't familiar with the Waterfall methodology (aka the Systems Development Life Cycle of SDLC) then do a quick google search to get the gist. It should take you two minutes to absorb the nuances of this venerable model. Now for the fun part: Is the waterfall dead? What hidden or obvious ways does your organization/company/place of work use the waterfall approach? Extra credit: In what ways is that approach helpful, and in what ways is it detrimental? > > In order to foster discussion I have put an overview of the Blur Box > model on the TriZPUG site along with a couple of papers that explain the > model further. You have a week to read them -- which I recommend you > do, because then you'll have lots of ammo. > > http://trizpug.org/Members/Odonata/blurbox/ > From robert at geigers.net Wed May 30 02:42:51 2007 From: robert at geigers.net (Robert Geiger) Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 20:42:51 -0400 Subject: [triangle-zpug] TriZPUG homework In-Reply-To: <1180460190.5807.7.camel@victoria> References: <4651D7E3.3010207@unc.edu> <1179779220.5794.35.camel@victoria> <1180460190.5807.7.camel@victoria> Message-ID: <465CC88B.90009@geigers.net> No question, designing software is worth doing. I'm teaching/training people in the ICONIX methodology and it's a superior fast track UML based approach that uses 4 diagrams to go from analysis to code! And it works! And you document requirements, domain objects, use cases, etc. We use Enterprise Architect as a uml design tool - it's a great value at $100. It just blows everything else away for the price, including the open source (free) alternatives (at this time, anyway). (And I always look to open source first) ICONIX is, however, Design Tool independent. ICONIX is the brainchild of my friend, Doug Rosenberg, who has been teaching and writing books on the subject for over 15 years. His latest book just got the BEST BOOK REVIEW for a technology book that I have EVER SEEN! Check it out. http://www.javalobby.org/articles/usecase-object/ I'd be happy to do an ICONIX design session for the TriZPUG some time, if there is any interest. Robert Geiger http://robert.geigers.net 919.271.7132 Rob Lineberger wrote: > If you're attending tonight's TriZPUG meeting (at 7pm in 328 Phillips > Hall on the campus of UNC) then here's a little bit of homework. Don't > worry, it won't hurt much. > > If you aren't familiar with the Waterfall methodology (aka the Systems > Development Life Cycle of SDLC) then do a quick google search to get the > gist. It should take you two minutes to absorb the nuances of this > venerable model. > > Now for the fun part: Is the waterfall dead? What hidden or obvious > ways does your organization/company/place of work use the waterfall > approach? > > Extra credit: In what ways is that approach helpful, and in what ways is > it detrimental? > >> In order to foster discussion I have put an overview of the Blur Box >> model on the TriZPUG site along with a couple of papers that explain the >> model further. You have a week to read them -- which I recommend you >> do, because then you'll have lots of ammo. >> >> http://trizpug.org/Members/Odonata/blurbox/ >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > triangle-zpug mailing list > triangle-zpug at starship.python.net > http://starship.python.net/mailman/listinfo/triangle-zpug > -- Robert Geiger 919.271.7132 http://robert.geigers.net Have a great day! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Biggers) Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 13:43:53 -0400 Subject: [triangle-zpug] TriZPUG homework In-Reply-To: <465CC88B.90009@geigers.net> References: <4651D7E3.3010207@unc.edu> <1179779220.5794.35.camel@victoria> <1180460190.5807.7.camel@victoria> <465CC88B.90009@geigers.net> Message-ID: <18013.47065.223984.603471@dexter.saiph.com> Hi Robert, Robert Geiger writes: > No question, designing software is worth doing. > > I'm teaching/training people in the ICONIX methodology and it's a > superior fast track UML based approach that uses 4 diagrams to go from > analysis to code! Are you now an instructor for ICONIX? That's great! > ................................ > > ICONIX is the brainchild of my friend, Doug Rosenberg, who has been > teaching and writing books on the subject for over 15 years. His latest > book just got the BEST BOOK REVIEW for a technology book that I have > EVER SEEN! Check it out. > > http://www.javalobby.org/articles/usecase-object/ In-depth review, I will have to get this book. > I'd be happy to do an ICONIX design session for the TriZPUG some time, > if there is any interest. I vote for a TriZPUG design session! Would you or Doug Rosenberg be willing to speak, for the new PTJUG.org user group? I think the Triad folks need to hear about ICONIX and developer experiences with the methodology. > Robert Geiger > http://robert.geigers.net > 919.271.7132 I am still looking for the "right job", and doing some Plone site engineering for Jim Allman, on behalf of http://TotMarketing.com in Morrisville. That work puts me here in RTP about 4 days a week, before I get weary and head for home. :) I don't know if Richard Amermann ever got ahold of you. Very nice guy, wish his "stealth Plone code" would "get out there and get sold". Anyways, hope all's well, and keep in touch, ----mark From robert at geigers.net Wed May 30 20:35:27 2007 From: robert at geigers.net (Robert Geiger) Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 14:35:27 -0400 Subject: [triangle-zpug] TriZPUG homework In-Reply-To: <18013.47065.223984.603471@dexter.saiph.com> References: <4651D7E3.3010207@unc.edu> <1179779220.5794.35.camel@victoria> <1180460190.5807.7.camel@victoria> <465CC88B.90009@geigers.net> <18013.47065.223984.603471@dexter.saiph.com> Message-ID: <465DC3EF.2020105@geigers.net> Getting Doug to speak is a function of his doing a training himself in the area. I would be happy to come to a local TRIZPUG meeting, or you can wait to see if Doug becomes local. I would recommend Doug for the Java group, as he know the Java realm better than I. I can do a generic overview of the iconix process pretty well, as I've used it for years with my teams. I'll let you know when Doug will be in town, regardless. Best regards, Robert Mark R. Biggers wrote: > Hi Robert, > > Robert Geiger writes: > > No question, designing software is worth doing. > > > > I'm teaching/training people in the ICONIX methodology and it's a > > superior fast track UML based approach that uses 4 diagrams to go from > > analysis to code! > > Are you now an instructor for ICONIX? That's great! > > > ................................ > > > > ICONIX is the brainchild of my friend, Doug Rosenberg, who has been > > teaching and writing books on the subject for over 15 years. His latest > > book just got the BEST BOOK REVIEW for a technology book that I have > > EVER SEEN! Check it out. > > > > http://www.javalobby.org/articles/usecase-object/ > > In-depth review, I will have to get this book. > > > I'd be happy to do an ICONIX design session for the TriZPUG some time, > > if there is any interest. > > I vote for a TriZPUG design session! Would you or Doug Rosenberg be willing > to speak, for the new PTJUG.org user group? I think the Triad folks need to > hear about ICONIX and developer experiences with the methodology. > > > Robert Geiger > > http://robert.geigers.net > > 919.271.7132 > > I am still looking for the "right job", and doing some Plone site > engineering for Jim Allman, on behalf of http://TotMarketing.com in > Morrisville. That work puts me here in RTP about 4 days a week, before I > get weary and head for home. :) > > I don't know if Richard Amermann ever got ahold of you. Very nice guy, wish > his "stealth Plone code" would "get out there and get sold". > > Anyways, hope all's well, and keep in touch, > ----mark > -- Robert Geiger 919.271.7132 http://robert.geigers.net Have a great day! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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There's a lot of traffic about it here: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.sprints as well as in #zope3-dev on freenode. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://www.seacoos.org office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 962-4323 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599