Two weekends ago I attended and gave a talk at PyOhio 2014.

I'm really quite impressed with the how well organized this free conference was. The talks were high caliber. The conference drew attendees from a pretty wide area. Most folks I ran into were from outside of Ohio [1 …

Last night I gave a talk about Bobo at the NoVA Python Meetup.

Bobo is a minimalist Web framework for Python. Bobo was designed to be very easy to learn and remember (or re-learn). It's philosophy is that it's best for the components of a web application to be decoupled …

I gave a talk on a content-aware load balancer at PyCon 2012.

There's a video of the talk.

The zc.resumelb (source) is a content-aware load balancer for Python. When an application has a working set that's too big to fit in application cache, and when the applications data can …

I "gave a keynote presentation <http://jimfulton.info/talks/What-I-Learned-as-the-Zope-Pope.html>`_ at Python Brasil 2011 sharing some perspectives on the History of the Zope project.

The purpose of this post is to make a point about the dangers of excessive automation

Let me emphasize: the purpose of this post if not to criticize ConfigParser in particular, but to make a point about the API over design. ConfigParser is an old project and if it was …

I gave a talk on deploying applications with zc.buildout at PyCon 2011.

Here's a video of the talk.

This talk discussed how we used buildout for deploying applications, including:

• Development
• building self-contained source releases (tarballs)
• Building production configurations of applications as well as support configurations (run scripts, logging, etc …

http://health2challenge.org/code-a-thon/washington-dc/

Someone sent a link about this to the DC Python Meetup Group (http://meetup.zpugdc.org/) a few weeks ago. It looked like fun and a way to learn about a new domain, so I signed up. I'm not aware if any other Python folks …