Ron Stephens Learning about Python http://www.awaretek.com/plf.html en-us Copyright 2005 Ron Stephens rdsteph@mac.com 1 May 2005 10:00:00 -0400 1 May 2005 10:00:00 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss rdsteph@mac.com http://www.awaretek.com/podcasts/unicorn3.jpg http://www.awaretek.com/podcasts/unicorn3.jpg http://traffic.libsyn.com/awaretek/Python411_20120214_Wilson.mp3 Old podcast archives are back up, and a personal connection to a new upcoming book by E. O. Wilson. Podcasts 19 Feb 2012 20:19:00 -0400 10:04 http://traffic.libsyn.com/awaretek/Python411_20110516_Merlin.mp3 Merlin's Decision Analysis is a web app for use with any web device. It can be found at www.awaretek.com/merlin.html. It has five parts, a weighted averaging script, a chatbot, and I Ching, Mandala, and postmodern Oracle modules. Podcasts 16 May 2011 20:19:00 -0400 7:34 http://traffic.libsyn.com/awaretek/Python411_20110410_Archaeology.mp3 Software Archaeology, as explained by Vernor Venge in "a Deepness in the Sky", can be practised today by digging into PyPI, the Python Package Index, and updating its contents. I certainly made an interesting discovery.... Podcasts 10 Apr 2011 20:19:00 -0400 15:30 http://traffic.libsyn.com/awaretek/Python411_20110326_NotMagic.mp3 Hello I'm back, embarassed because of the long hiatus, but podcasting about Python 3, a simplified language with cruft removed, the book Programming in Python 3, thoughts on Unicode in Python 3, and a look at what I'm up to. Podcasts 28 Mar 2011 20:19:00 -0400 12:26 http://media.libsyn.com/media/awaretek/Python411_20101010_Books.mp3 Mini reviews of the books Expert Python Programming, Python Phrasebook, Python for Unix and Linux System Administration, A New Kind of Science, Meta Math, The Grand Design and more... Podcasts 10 Oct 2010 20:19:00 -0400 27:42 http://media.libsyn.com/media/awaretek/Python411_20100911_Lunduke.mp3 This podcast is an interview with Bryan Lunduke, the creator of Illumination, a visual programming tool. Podcasts 11 Sep 2010 20:19:00 -0400 49:50 http://media.libsyn.com/media/awaretek/Python411_20100907_Comments.mp3 Comments and feedback from listeners about subjects of previous podcasts including Python's versions and implementations, web apps, books, Microsoft, visual programming, mobile phones, etc. Podcasts 07 Sep 2010 20:19:00 -0400 19:08 http://media.libsyn.com/media/awaretek/Python411_20100830_WebApps.mp3 A short podcast in praise of web apps for mobile devices, comments about my own web app project, and about upcoming podcasts. Podcasts 30 Aug 2010 20:19:00 -0400 9:25 http://media.libsyn.com/media/awaretek/Python411_20100815_Versions.mp3 A look at the various versions and implementations of Python, including Python 3, Python 2, PyPy, IronPython, Jython, Stackless, Psycho, Shedskin, Cython, Unladen Swallow, etc. Podcasts 16 Aug 2010 20:19:00 -0400 35:46 http://media.libsyn.com/media/awaretek/Python411_20100801_Vim.mp3 This podcast is the long awaited interview with Vim Toutenhoofd, about Python on Nokia phones, Meego, QT, and and his app for hang gliding and sailplanes. At 75 years old, Vim was born in the Netherlands, earned his PhD in Physics in Australia, was a long time research scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder Colorado, where he specialized in piloting sailplanes into the heart of thunderstorms for the sake of scientific data collection and analysis, and is now an active hang glider in the Oregon mountains. Podcasts 01 Aug 2010 20:19:00 -0400 35:25 http://media.libsyn.com/media/awaretek/Python411_20100716_Nokia.mp3 Python on Nokia devices, including the Symbian and Meego operating systems, plus commentary on various developments in the Python community. Podcasts 16 Jul 2010 20:19:00 -0400 13:24 http://media.libsyn.com/media/awaretek/Python411_20100620_TheMaker.mp3 An interview with Gerald Spreer and Ian Barrow about The Maker, an open source Content Management System for websites, coded in Python. We also discuss Gerald's new iPhone game Color Rush Podcasts 20 Jun 2010 20:19:00 -0400 37:26 http://media.libsyn.com/media/awaretek/Python411_20100605_MobileOpSys.mp3 Exciting times for mobile operating systems leads me to podcast about and prepare an online app titled (Which mobile operating system is right for me" among Android, iPhone, Windows, Nokia Symbian, HP Palm WebOS, and Blackberry. Podcasts 06 Jun 2010 20:19:00 -0400 34:55 http://media.libsyn.com/media/awaretek/Python411_20100531_OpenAllure.mp3 This podcast is an interview and wide-ranging discussion with John Graves about his Open Allure open source project, a web based educational tool written in Python with a fascinating user interface utilizing gestures, voice recognition, and text to speech. Open Allure is his PhD project in New Zealand and John is heading to silicon valley this summer as an intern at Ray Kurzweil's Singularity University. He is a man of many interests and the wide ranging discussion hits on many Pythonic topics, the philosophy of open source, key technological tipping points, and much more. I have been delinquent in producing podcasts lately but this is a good one. John has a lot to say on many topics covered in previous Python411 podcasts. Podcasts 31 May 2010 20:19:00 -0400 53:48 http://media.libsyn.com/media/awaretek/Python411_20100222_unLaden.mp3 I welcome "A Little Bit of Python", a great new Pythonic Podcast. PyCon is in full swing and Unladen Swallow has been accepted into Python 3. Python411 takes off in a bit of a new direction. Hear it here first ;-)). Podcasts 22 Feb 2010 20:19:00 -0400 14:19 http://media.libsyn.com/media/awaretek/Python411_20100124_Sikuli.mp3 Sikuli is the coolest Python project I have ever seen in my ten year hobbyist career. An MIT oepn source project, Sikuli uses Python to automate GUI tasks (in any GUI or GUI based app that runs the JVM) by simply drag and dropping GUI elements into Python scripts as function arguments. Podcasts 24 Jan 2010 20:19:00 -0400 21:13 http://media.libsyn.com/media/awaretek/Python411_20091101_Epiphany.mp3 Epiphany: The User Interface is the Programming Language, and the programming language is the user inerface. In the next 5-10 years, the Operating System of the future will take shape. Epiphany: it will be mobile and wearable. Podcasts 01 Nov 2009 20:19:00 -0400 21:02 http://media.libsyn.com/media/awaretek/Python411_20090920_Language.mp3 This podcast is a review of the new book Natural Language Processing with Python about the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK). I read this book on my flights between LA and Mumbai and really enyoyed it. Podcasts 20 Sep 2009 20:19:00 -0400 21:47 http://media.libsyn.com/media/awaretek/python411_20090903_IronPython.output.mp3 This episode of Python411 is an interview with Sven Passig about his creation of a professional B2B app using IronPython and Silverlight on Mono and the Mac. Podcasts 03 Sep 2009 20:19:00 -0400 28:51 http://media.libsyn.com/media/awaretek/Python411_20090719_Community.mp3 A Visit to Disney Animation Studio, where Python is extensively used; Google Wave uses Python; Android Scripting Environment enables Python on Android powered cell phones; various new books; OSCON, Python 3.1, Jython 2.5 etc. Podcasts 19 Jul 2009 20:19:00 -0400 21:22 http://media.libsyn.com/media/awaretek/Python411_20090525_ShowMeDo.mp3 A wide ranging interview with Kyran Dale and Ian Ozsvald, the founders of ShowMeDo, the innovative and fast growing learning resource for Python and other open source technologies, featuring video-tutorials/screencasts and learning paths. Podcasts 25 May 2009 20:19:00 -0400 54:55 http://media.libsyn.com/media/awaretek/Python411_20090510_DrChrono.mp3 An interview with the creators of Dr. Chrono, a web 2.0 startup to help doctors manage their communication with their patients, created with Django and Python. Also contains feedback from listeners and several recommendations of Python tools and resources Podcasts 10 May 2009 20:19:00 -0400 38:18 http://media.libsyn.com/media/awaretek/Python411_20090503_Visualization.mp3 An interview with Shai Vaingast, author of Beginning Python Visualization, Creating Visual Transformation Scripts, in which we explore, MatPlotLib, Numpy, SciPy, Image Processing, Curve Fitting, GPS data gathering and manipulation, graphing, and more. Podcasts 03 May 2009 20:19:00 -0400 44:18