Lateral Opinion

Why your program is a frog. But not a real frog, a Lamarckian one. ...

Because it worked once, let's do it again. I have just set a completely arbitrary, and probably too early date for the release of the first english Issue of " PET: Python Entre Todos " magazine. ...

I just got a new phone because my old one disappeared. I got a Samsung Star, which is not a smartphone, but what they call a featurephone, which seems to mean " it does a lot of things but is cheap, can only be coded in Java and doesn't run android " . ...

On the news today (the newspaper is Tiempo Argentino, sorry about the unreadable photo): ...

Today at 00:00:00 GMT-3 PET: Python entre todos was indeed launched, in time (arbitrary but forced) and in budget ($0). ...

I will be speaking at the Jornadas del Sur in Bahía Blanca this weekend (August 14/15 and 16). ...

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A few days ago I finally got my 89 cents bluetooth dongle (now $1.85, but still with free shipping from china!) and got a bunch of pictures I had in my phone. ...

Today, March 24th is Ada Lovelace day, a day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science. . I am taking the liberty to tag this as python so it appears in the right planets, but that's just to promote Ada Lovelace day. Sorry 'bout that. ...

Everything I will say here was probably better said by Mark Pilgrim but what the heck, let's give it a shot. ...

So, what do you do for a living? ...

First a short explanation: ...

How to write a tiny python app (less than 50 lines) that reacts to events on the DBUS buses. For example, displaying a notification when you press one of your keyboards' special keys. ...

No, this is not a post announcing I just wrote my first public python code. This is a post about my first public python code... from 1996! ...

I will be doing a brand-new never seen introduction to PyQt programming at the " Jornadas de Software Libre y Open Source " in Mar del Plata tomorrow or the next day. ...

As a former future mathematician, it drives me mad when I see an ad that looks like a great opportunity... as long as you don't crunch the numbers. ...

You may have heard about the possibility that the Large Hadron Collider is being sabotaged from the future . ...

I just saw this post about the SheevaPlug . I need one. First I need a reason to need it. ...

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