One month ago I received a mail from the organization of the Puerto Montt node of this year's FLISOL. I was glad for receiving such invitation and naturally said that I'd be happy to be there.
Fast forward to right now, FLISOL is going to happen this Saturday, on more than 200 cities around Latin America. My participation on Puerto Montt will consist on a two-stage talk, starting with an introduction to Django (like the one I did on the Encuentro Linux ) and then jumping to a Django/Jython integration talk (like the PyCon one). I have an hour and half to do all of it, which is good because I won't be forced to compress the content too much, but keeping people attention for such time span may be a challenge.
So, if you are in a Latin America country, check out if there is a FLISOL node near you. Chances are the it will, and you can have a great time there, either getting help installing Free/Open-Source Software on your machine, listening to interesting talks, or just hanging around with nice people who appreciate the OSS idea.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
django-jython 1.0b1 Released!
I've just made the first official beta release of the django-jython project: a collection of utilities and database backends for Django development on the JVM.
You can download it here. I've also written the release notes, detailing the important changes since the code was produced under the Google Summer of Code program last year. Here is a summary with the more important points:
For now, PostgreSQL is still the only supported database. But we have important progress on MySQL, Oracle and MS-SQL database backends which hopefully will make it into next beta releases. The plan is to get the 1.0 release out a week or two after the final release of Jython 2.5.0.
As usual, feedback will be very appreciated and bugs should be reported on the issue tracker.
You can download it here. I've also written the release notes, detailing the important changes since the code was produced under the Google Summer of Code program last year. Here is a summary with the more important points:
- modjy integration and war management command updated to work with Jython 2.5b2 and later.
- Added doj.test.xmlrunner.junitxmlrunner, a Django test runner for producing JUnit-compatible XML output (useful for integration with continous integration tools like hudson, cruise-control, etc)
- Compatible with the 1.0.X branch of Django
- Compatible with Jython 2.5b2 and later releases
For now, PostgreSQL is still the only supported database. But we have important progress on MySQL, Oracle and MS-SQL database backends which hopefully will make it into next beta releases. The plan is to get the 1.0 release out a week or two after the final release of Jython 2.5.0.
As usual, feedback will be very appreciated and bugs should be reported on the issue tracker.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Back from Chicago
Wow, finally I've found some time after returning from my trip to Chicago.
The main reason to flight there was obviously PyCon, and being there was just great: Lots of clever and friendly people talking about fun and interesting topics revolving around the Python programming language. Even with my not-so-good spoken English skills I was able to have very interesting conversations with very smart people hanging around there. Oh, and my Django on Jython talk went well too! (the video concatenates the Pylons-on-Jython and Django-on-Jython talks. Anyway, both are interesting and quite related!).
Another big thing for me on PyCon was our announcement of the “Definitive Guide to Jython” an upcoming book which is a collaborative of Josh Junneau, Jim Baker, Victor Ng, Frank Wierzbicki and me. The contents will be licensed under a CC license and thus will be available online. One of the main concerns of the team was to be able to have such free licensing and seriously, Apress is such a wonderful publisher for allowing it without any problem. Obviously, if you want the full book experience, you may want to buy the book from Apress when it comes out to print (later this year according to the schedule).
After PyCon, I stayed almost a complete extra week on Chicago, and it was a very good idea. It's a very nice city (I didn't thought it was going to be so nice being so big) full of many places worth to visit. I had a lot of memorable experiences there. I don't have enough time to describe all there here, so here is a quick list of keywords as my poor summary: snow, elevated train, lots of good museums, long walks on downtown, fire alarms(!), jazz, soul, funk, pizza, parties, skyscrapers, zoo, architecture...
More importantly: I also met great people there. Here is a big virtual hug for Sarah, Martin, Freddy, Bozidar, Coleen, Natalia, Patricio, Gina, Jessica, Amber and Martin S. -- they are all very nice people with whom I shared many fun moments on Chicago, and two weeks ago I didn't even knew that they existed! This is the best aspect about traveling, in my humble opinion.
Now is time to go back to my normal activities and try to catch with work and the university as soon as possible. But there are a kind of experiences which mark you in one way or another. This trip was one of them!
The main reason to flight there was obviously PyCon, and being there was just great: Lots of clever and friendly people talking about fun and interesting topics revolving around the Python programming language. Even with my not-so-good spoken English skills I was able to have very interesting conversations with very smart people hanging around there. Oh, and my Django on Jython talk went well too! (the video concatenates the Pylons-on-Jython and Django-on-Jython talks. Anyway, both are interesting and quite related!).
Another big thing for me on PyCon was our announcement of the “Definitive Guide to Jython” an upcoming book which is a collaborative of Josh Junneau, Jim Baker, Victor Ng, Frank Wierzbicki and me. The contents will be licensed under a CC license and thus will be available online. One of the main concerns of the team was to be able to have such free licensing and seriously, Apress is such a wonderful publisher for allowing it without any problem. Obviously, if you want the full book experience, you may want to buy the book from Apress when it comes out to print (later this year according to the schedule).
After PyCon, I stayed almost a complete extra week on Chicago, and it was a very good idea. It's a very nice city (I didn't thought it was going to be so nice being so big) full of many places worth to visit. I had a lot of memorable experiences there. I don't have enough time to describe all there here, so here is a quick list of keywords as my poor summary: snow, elevated train, lots of good museums, long walks on downtown, fire alarms(!), jazz, soul, funk, pizza, parties, skyscrapers, zoo, architecture...
More importantly: I also met great people there. Here is a big virtual hug for Sarah, Martin, Freddy, Bozidar, Coleen, Natalia, Patricio, Gina, Jessica, Amber and Martin S. -- they are all very nice people with whom I shared many fun moments on Chicago, and two weeks ago I didn't even knew that they existed! This is the best aspect about traveling, in my humble opinion.
Now is time to go back to my normal activities and try to catch with work and the university as soon as possible. But there are a kind of experiences which mark you in one way or another. This trip was one of them!
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