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Shannon -jj Behrens: Code Reuse has Finally Arrived...Obviously!

I got into a discussion about code reuse with my co-worker, Jarek. I remember reading books on object oriented programming from a few decades ago in which OOP promised to increase code reuse. A lot of people doubted that serious code reuse would ever happen....

Steve Holden: Open Django Central Now Open to Sponsors

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The Open Bastion, the subsidiary that runs events and conferences, has announced that its Open Django Centralevent, new to the calendar this year, is now (yes, we know) finallyopen to sponsors. Sponsorship is very reasonably priced, and the...

Powered by MongoDB: Rafflecopter

By 10gen

Juan Pattenfrom Rafflecopter answers a few questions about how Rafflecopter is using MongoDB. What is Rafflecopter? Rafflecopteris a web app that helps online publishers run sweepstakes on their own blogs and other sites. It used to take hours to plan, set...

Enthought: PyGotham Sneak Peek: Interactive Plots with Chaco

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Visualization is an important part of any analysis. While well-designed static plots can tell rich stories about data, sometimes a little interactivity can go a long way to build intuition around a subject. Chaco is an open source plotting library that allows...

Morten W Petersen: Are those eggs on my face? Proper development-release cycle

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So, I've been working to release some packages today. In this case they are some eggs for Plone, which enable easier editing and creation of content types in Plone (see Products.MegamanicEditContentTypes).I use PyPi for things we release to the community,...

Andrew Dalke: Topologically non-planar compounds

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John MacCuish, fromMesa Analytics, pointed out that the MCS problem takes polynomial time if the graphs are planar. He writes: "Are there graphs in your likely sets, that are not planar? I have never seen a non-planar small molecule drug for example,...

Python User Groups: PyUGAT Python User Group Austria - Next Meeting: May 23rd, 2012

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The next meeting of the Python User Group Austria (PyUGAT) will take place Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 around 6 p.m. at theMetalabin Vienna (how to get there).Upcoming events are announced on our web site. You can also find us onMeetup.The Agenda for this...

Matt Harrison: I Would Like Sphinx PDF Generation to Support the LaTeX Memoir Package

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I would really like to use the same toolset for publishing POD (Print On Demand) books that I use for ebooks. Yet the pdf generation abilities of both docutils and Sphinx seem more focused on pdf “ebooks”—pdf’s that you would read from...

Calvin Spealman: ANN: straight.command 0.1a1 - A command framework with a plugin architecture

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New Project Announcement: I'd like to announce a new project, based on straight.plugin, a command framework that provides a declarative way to define command-line options, sub-commands, and allows plugins from third-parties to expand commands. This...