Notes from Python SIG, 19-November-2009

[Ted Roche]

Eight people attended the Python Special Interest Group, held a week 
early to avoid the Thanksgiving holiday. Anticipate a reschedule 
December meeting as well.

Last night's meeting was a vigorous and far-reaching discussion of 
MySQL, Oracle, the future of MySQL, Maria DB, OpenOffice.org automation 
using Python, OpenOffice.org automation using Visual FoxPro, Twisted, 
IE6, Zope, Plone, Django, MS SQL Server, pyodbc, SQLAlchemy, Cascading 
Style Sheets, IE6, FireFox and FireBug, User Agents, IE6, how not to 
insulate a bungalow roof, the (Python!) cssparse module 
(http://cthedot.de/cssutils/), Fortune's selection of Steve Jobs as 
"CEO  of the Decade", Lenovo netbooks and Ubuntu, the Millennium, why 
calendar years are one-based and not zero-based, distributed version 
control systems, master-slave and master-master replication using MySQL 
and Postgres, svn and git, and more! Whew! You should have been there!

Thanks to Bill for organizing the meeting, to all for attending and 
participating, and to the Amoskeag Business Incubator for providing the 
great facilities!

Stay tuned for an announcement of the December meeting, and hope 
everyone has a good Thanksgiving!

-- 
Ted Roche
Ted Roche&  Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com