From cbc at unc.edu  Wed Oct  1 18:57:46 2008
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:57:46 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] [Fwd: PyCon 2009 (US) - Call for Tutorials]
Message-ID: <48E3AC0A.5060509@unc.edu>

FYI...

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Subject: PyCon 2009 (US) - Call for Tutorials
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 07:46:31 -0500
From: Greg Lindstrom <gslindstrom at gmail.com>
Reply-To: python-list at python.org
To: python-list at python.org, python-announce-list at python.org, 
tutor at python.org

The period for submitting tutorial proposals for Pycon 2009 (US) is open and
will continue through Friday, October 31th. This year features two
"pre-conference" days devoted to tutorials on Wednesday March 25 & Thursday
March 26 in Chicago. This allows for more classes than ever.

Tutorials are 3-hours long on a specific topic of your choice. Last year we
featured classes on Learning Python, Web Development, Scientific Computing,
and many more. Class size varied from 10 to over 60 students. The extended
time spent in class allows teachers to cover a lot of material while
allowing for interaction with students.

The full Call for Tutorial Proposals, including submission details, an
example proposal as well as a template, is available at <
http://us.pycon.org/2009/tutorials/proposals/>.

Tutorial selections will be announced in early December to give you time to
prepare your class and PyCon will compensate instructors US$1,500 per
tutorial.

If you have any questions, please contact pycon-tutorials at python.org.

Greg Lindstrom
Tutorial Coordinator, PyCon 2009 (US)

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From cbc at unc.edu  Fri Oct  3 01:45:27 2008
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:45:27 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] [Fwd: RELEASED Python 2.6 final]
Message-ID: <48E55D17.5020205@unc.edu>

Python 2.6 was released today.

Cool new features are the multiprocessing module (gets around the GIL), 
the with statement, relative imports, per-user site-pacakages, byte 
literals, abstract classes, and class decorators.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RELEASED Python 2.6 final
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:46:45 -0400
From: Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org>
Reply-To: python-list at python.org
To: python-announce at python.org
CC: Python List <python-list at python.org>,   python-dev List 
<python-dev at python.org>

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On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I
am happy to announce the release of Python 2.6 final.  This is the
production-ready version of the latest in the Python 2 series.

There are many new features and modules, improvements, bug fixes, and
other changes in Python 2.6.  Please see the "What's new" page for
details

     http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.6.html

as well as PEP 361

     http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/

While Python 2.6 is backward compatible with earlier versions of
Python, 2.6 has many tools and features that will help you migrate to
Python 3.  Wherever possible, Python 3.0 features have been added
without affecting existing code.  In other cases, the new features can
be enabled through the use of __future__ imports and command line
switches.

Python 3.0 is currently in release candidate and will be available
later this year.  Both Python 2 and Python 3 will be supported for the
foreseeable future.

Source tarballs, Windows installers, and Mac disk images can be
downloaded from the Python 2.6 page:

     http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/

(Please note that due to quirks in the earth's time zones, the Windows
installers will be available shortly.)

Bugs can be reported in the Python bug tracker:

     http://bugs.python.org

Enjoy,
- -Barry

Barry Warsaw
barry at python.org
Python 2.6/3.0 Release Manager
(on behalf of the entire python-dev team)

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Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599




From ken at mack-z.com  Thu Oct  9 19:38:23 2008
From: ken at mack-z.com (Ken MacKenzie)
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 13:38:23 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Hello and Test Message
Message-ID: <422eddaf0810091038kef0d0c7yccee72112013940d@mail.gmail.com>

Hello there, just making sure my new subscription to this list is "all
good".  I am an experienced programmer in numerous languages however a
new programmer when it comes to Python.  Anyway my name is Ken and
just wanted to say hello in this first paragraph.

Now to the second paragraph.  I am looking for some information,
documentation, examples, etc for talking to U2 databases, particularly
Unidata with Python.  I say the pyCDF module out there, not clear if
that is what I need.  If anyone has anything to point me in the right
direction I would much appreciate it.  I am looking to do some quick
reporting and analysis tools for a set of business operations I
support and I think Python will work well for this.

Thanks in advance,
Ken

From bgailer at gmail.com  Tue Oct 14 15:31:16 2008
From: bgailer at gmail.com (bob gailer)
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:31:16 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Hello and Test Message
In-Reply-To: <422eddaf0810091038kef0d0c7yccee72112013940d@mail.gmail.com>
References: <422eddaf0810091038kef0d0c7yccee72112013940d@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <48F49F24.7000706@gmail.com>

Ken MacKenzie wrote:
> Hello there, just making sure my new subscription to this list is "all
> good".  I am an experienced programmer in numerous languages however a
> new programmer when it comes to Python.  Anyway my name is Ken and
> just wanted to say hello in this first paragraph.
>
> Now to the second paragraph.  I am looking for some information,
> documentation, examples, etc for talking to U2 databases, particularly
> Unidata with Python.  I say the pyCDF module out there, not clear if
> that is what I need.  
"NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is a set of software libraries and 
machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and 
sharing of array-oriented scientific data."

I see nothing in that regarding relational database access. So I don't 
think that will help you.
> If anyone has anything to point me in the right
> direction I would much appreciate it.  
IBM states, at 
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/u2/unidata/features.html?S_CMP=rnav

"Standards-based SQL interfaces such as JDBC, OLEDB and ODBC that 
support the full nesting capability of the data server engine."

Go to http://wiki.python.org/moin/ChoosingDatabase; scroll to ODBC 
Support. At least one of the ODBCs offered there might work. I just 
don't know about "full nesting capability"
> I am looking to do some quick
> reporting and analysis tools for a set of business operations I
> support and I think Python will work well for this.
>   
You might also ask at help at python.org.
> Thanks in advance,
> Ken
>   
Welcome in  retropsect.

Also remember that Google is your friend.

-- 
Bob Gailer
Chapel Hill NC 
919-636-4239

When we take the time to be aware of our feelings and 
needs we have more satisfying interatctions with others.

Nonviolent Communication provides tools for this awareness.

As a coach and trainer I can assist you in learning this process.

What is YOUR biggest relationship challenge?


From cbc at unc.edu  Wed Oct 15 22:10:09 2008
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:10:09 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Hello and Test Message
In-Reply-To: <422eddaf0810091038kef0d0c7yccee72112013940d@mail.gmail.com>
References: <422eddaf0810091038kef0d0c7yccee72112013940d@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <48F64E21.7040108@unc.edu>

On 10/9/2008 1:38 PM, Ken MacKenzie wrote:
> Now to the second paragraph.  I am looking for some information,
> documentation, examples, etc for talking to U2 databases, particularly
> Unidata with Python.  I say the pyCDF module out there, not clear if
> that is what I need.  If anyone has anything to point me in the right
> direction I would much appreciate it.  I am looking to do some quick
> reporting and analysis tools for a set of business operations I
> support and I think Python will work well for this.

Welcome, Ken. Sorry for the late reply. I've been at Plone Conference 
for ten days and haven't checked email in all that time.

The pyCDF module is for NetCDF data. I use it every day.

The NetCDF specification is maintained by Unidata, a program of the 
University Corporation for for Atmospheric Research (UCAR).

Somehow IBM rebranded their database products, calling one of them 
"UniData" (bicapitalized), and trademarked the name despite prior use by 
UCAR. UniData is part of IBM's U2 line of database products.

IBM intends to replease Python, Ruby, and PHP support for U2, but I 
don't think they have yet. In the meantime, you *might* be able to use 
U2's ODBC driver with an ODBC module for Python like mxODBC, pyodbc, or 
ceodbc.

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599




From cbc at unc.edu  Thu Oct 16 22:05:09 2008
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:05:09 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Plone Deployment Workshop
Message-ID: <48F79E75.1020002@unc.edu>

I'm going to this. Thought you might be interested also:

At the Plone Conference 2008 in Washington, DC, lots of people expressed 
interest in this 2 day event, and I want to remind you to register 
before Early Bird Registration prices end on Friday, Oct. 17th 2008 at 
11:59pm ET.

This two-day workshop is the first Plone Deployment event that is 
addressing specifically the topic of a successful long-term Plone site 
launch. It will be held Nov. 20-21, 2008 at the Central Library in 
Indianapolis, Indiana.

The Plone Deployment Workshop strives to be an inexpensive and 
educational event with registration being only $295 (or $195 if you 
register prior to Oct. 17th). It is targeted at systems administrators, 
hosting specialists, web engineers and IT developers.

Don't miss out: register now at http://www.sixfeetup.com/dw08 and save $100!

The first day will cover great topics such as:
  - Plone Deployment Challenges
  - HTTP Acceleration & Load Balancing
  - Buildout, Eggs & Skillet
  - Backup Strategies
  - Alternative Deployment Techniques
  - Deploying Plone in a Windows Environment (by our special guest Alan 
Runyan, President of Enfold Systems)

The second day will feature two hands-on sessions on real-world problems 
brought by the attendees.

More information about the conference along with the full schedule of 
presentations, speakers bios, and social events is available online at: 
http://www.sixfeetup.com/dw08

Thanks for any help you can give in spreading the word!

Gabrielle Hendryx-Parker
COO and Co-Founder
--
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Silicon Valley: +1 (650) 401-8579 x601
Midwest: +1 (317) 861-5948 x601
Toll-Free: 1-866-SIX-FEET
Mailto:gabrielle at SixFeetUp.com
http://www.sixfeetup.com  |  Zope/Plone Custom Development

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599



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From cbc at unc.edu  Fri Oct 17 16:52:54 2008
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:52:54 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] [triangle-zpug] [Fwd: ANNOUNCE: new package posix_ipc
	0.1 available]
In-Reply-To: <30CDCDF5-7280-4B1C-8530-6CF55FF669AA@semanchuk.com>
References: <48F64E1D.7010105@unc.edu>
	<D1008F7D-86DB-4994-A522-D5B5D3F0E200@semanchuk.com>
	<48F666AC.8050309@unc.edu>
	<30CDCDF5-7280-4B1C-8530-6CF55FF669AA@semanchuk.com>
Message-ID: <48F8A6C6.1050007@unc.edu>

On 10/15/2008 6:12 PM, Philip Semanchuk wrote:
> I will double check my commitment on 
> the 23rd if there's space for a presentation at that meeting.

I got ahold of Paul Smith and there will be a TriZPUG meeting at 
Capstrat at 7pm on Thursday Oct 23.

If you can present, great. If not, we always have something. I'm trying 
to see if Brad C. wants to talk about the new Launchpad enhancements:

http://news.launchpad.net/general/launchpad-2110-faster-branch-uploads

We have a lot to talk about regarding World Plone Day.

And last meeting, we got a lot of interaction by calling on each person 
individually to report what they've been doing or learned with Python in 
the last month.

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599




From philip at semanchuk.com  Fri Oct 17 18:10:17 2008
From: philip at semanchuk.com (Philip Semanchuk)
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:10:17 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] [triangle-zpug] [Fwd: ANNOUNCE: new package posix_ipc
	0.1 available]
In-Reply-To: <48F8A6C6.1050007@unc.edu>
References: <48F64E1D.7010105@unc.edu>
	<D1008F7D-86DB-4994-A522-D5B5D3F0E200@semanchuk.com>
	<48F666AC.8050309@unc.edu>
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On Oct 17, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Chris Calloway wrote:

> On 10/15/2008 6:12 PM, Philip Semanchuk wrote:
>> I will double check my commitment on the 23rd if there's space for  
>> a presentation at that meeting.
>
> I got ahold of Paul Smith and there will be a TriZPUG meeting at  
> Capstrat at 7pm on Thursday Oct 23.

Chris,
I confirmed that I'm already committed for the 23rd of this month.  
I'll keep an eye out for the November announcement and hopefully I'll  
be able to make that one. Thanks for the invite.


Philip





>
>
> If you can present, great. If not, we always have something. I'm  
> trying to see if Brad C. wants to talk about the new Launchpad  
> enhancements:
>
> http://news.launchpad.net/general/launchpad-2110-faster-branch-uploads
>
> We have a lot to talk about regarding World Plone Day.
>
> And last meeting, we got a lot of interaction by calling on each  
> person individually to report what they've been doing or learned  
> with Python in the last month.
>
> -- 
> Sincerely,
>
> Chris Calloway
> http://www.secoora.org
> office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
> mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> TriZPUG at python.org
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug
> http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group


From rob_lineberger at med.unc.edu  Fri Oct 17 18:40:39 2008
From: rob_lineberger at med.unc.edu (Rob Lineberger)
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:40:39 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] FYI: Versioning is broken in Plone 3.1.5 and 3.1.6
In-Reply-To: <48F79E75.1020002@unc.edu>
References: <48F79E75.1020002@unc.edu>
Message-ID: <200810171240.39963.rob_lineberger@med.unc.edu>

We've discovered that versioning, specifically viewing diffs on two versions 
of one content type, is broken in Plone 3.1.5 and above. There is a bug 
report filed (http://dev.plone.org/plone/ticket/8590) , but in the meantime 
here is the workaround.

1) Go to the ZMI > portal_diff.   
2) In the drop-down for Portal Type, select the content type you wish to 
enable diffs on (such as Document)
3) in field name, type the word "any".
4) Select "Compond Diffs for AT Types" 
5) Click "Add Field"

Repeat for each content type you wish to view diffs on.

There is word that you can replace import.xml with the 3.1.4 version and it 
will take care of this problem, but I have not tested it yet.


From cbc at unc.edu  Fri Oct 17 22:10:07 2008
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:10:07 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] TriZPUG Meeting next week
Message-ID: <48F8F11F.1010606@unc.edu>

Thursday, October 23, 7pm at Capstrat, 1201 Edwards Mill Road, Suite 
102, Raleigh:

http://trizpug.org/Members/psmith/oct-08-mtg/

The topics in the above link are simply suggestions. We'll have the 
usual show and tell, so bring your stories. Plus, I'm expecting a new 
member to come for some Q&A on some topics most of us are already up on.

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599




From cbc at unc.edu  Wed Oct 22 21:48:45 2008
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:48:45 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] TriZPUG Meeting next week
In-Reply-To: <48F8F11F.1010606@unc.edu>
References: <48F8F11F.1010606@unc.edu>
Message-ID: <48FF839D.2020507@unc.edu>

Reminder... meeting is tomorrow (Thursday).

Also, you may be interested in this new release (20 day trial or free 
for use at degree granting institutions):

http://www.enthought.com/products/epd.php

On 10/17/2008 4:10 PM, Chris Calloway wrote:
> Thursday, October 23, 7pm at Capstrat, 1201 Edwards Mill Road, Suite 
> 102, Raleigh:
> 
> http://trizpug.org/Members/psmith/oct-08-mtg/
> 
> The topics in the above link are simply suggestions. We'll have the 
> usual show and tell, so bring your stories. Plus, I'm expecting a new 
> member to come for some Q&A on some topics most of us are already up on.
> 

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599




From cbc at unc.edu  Thu Oct 23 17:32:26 2008
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:32:26 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] World Plone Day
Message-ID: <4900990A.8010704@unc.edu>

You are invited to World Plone Day, to be celebrated Friday, November 7 
from 10am until noon on the UNC campus with a short symposium in room 
G202 of the Medical Biomolecular Research Building (MBRB). World Plone 
Day, with 59 events in 31 countries on 5 continents, brings together 
over 60 Plone developers on the UNC campus presenting what Plone is and 
how the Plone content management system is used within 
enterprise-hardened environments at UNC. World Plone Day will also 
include announcements about how Plone-based projects at UNC are pooling 
their resources to better leverage the distributed Plone development 
community on campus. The event will be followed by lunch on your own 
with the campus Plone development community at the Tar Heel Cafe in the 
Thurston Bowles Building.

Directions to MBRB: http://ccbc.unc.edu/facilities/buildings/mbrb

For more information about World Plone Day, contact Rob Lineberger 
(rob_lineberger at med.unc.edu) or Chris Calloway (cbc at unc.edu).

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599




From cbc at unc.edu  Tue Oct 28 16:46:36 2008
From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway)
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:46:36 -0400
Subject: [TriZPUG] Enfold Desktop
Message-ID: <490733DC.8000608@unc.edu>

There's a new version of Enfold Desktop out (that handy dandy tool that 
make WebDAV with Plone actually work well on Windows). Things like that 
can get lost in the shuffle since there isn't really a commercial Plone 
product announcement list.

http://www.enfoldsystems.com/software/desktop/

Enfold Desktop gives you a view of your Plone site folders and items 
right in your Windows Explorer, where you can cut, paste, copy, rename, 
bulk upload/download items and more.

The new version is updated for Plone 3 and integrates with versioning, 
link integrity checks, and content rules.

You can get paid support for it. Or you can get it for free with banner 
ads (right now, alternating banner ads for World Plone Day and Enfold 
Proxy).

You can use it without installing anything on your server. Or, you can 
install the cross platform server component and get extras like editing 
metadata and managing workflow state right from your Windows Explorer.

If you have a large organization collaborating on managing content in 
your Plone site, you inevitably have mostly Windows-based content 
editors and reviewers. I've found that giving them an Enfold Desktop 
client pretty much lowers the bar all the way to the ground for those 
people in my organization. They simply manage Plone content just as if 
it were on their desktop.

-- 
Sincerely,

Chris Calloway
http://www.secoora.org
office: 332 Chapman Hall   phone: (919) 599-3530
mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599