Re: [BangPypers] Online communication channel

2015-08-15 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Noufal Ibrahim KV wrote: >- Logging, notification etc. can be handled by one of the various > open source bots out there. We can keep history with as much > scrollback as necessary. Most open source chat rooms do this. > > > See www.echelog.com for

Re: [BangPypers] Connecting developers and companies

2015-07-20 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Folks: I'm an employee from one of the companies - ThoughtWorks - who have helped make space available for meetups. I'm not around in Bangalore now-a-days, so I ask one or the other colleague to help provide space. Noufal has described at ThoughtWorks position on such meetups. I've been chaperon

[BangPypers] About the Nim Language

2014-12-30 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Hi folks: I discovered the Nim programming language via HackerNews. Here are some discussion threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8814449 http://forum.nim-lang.org/t/671 A quote that caught my attention : "Nim is like writing C at the speed of Python, and running Python at the speed of

Re: [BangPypers] "The Python I would like to see" - Armin Ronacher

2014-08-19 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Gora Mohanty wrote: > We have been itching to goto Python 3, but the deal-breaker for us was > Django > not being ready. Now that Django does support Python 3, we did think again > about > moving, but held off exactly because of what you mention: Lack of > Python

Re: [BangPypers] "The Python I would like to see" - Armin Ronacher

2014-08-18 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On 2014-08-18 21:45, chandrakant kumar wrote: > >> Python 3 has been a disappointment. >> > > I haven't used it enough to judge (and this has, in my experience, been > the case with most critics). > > However, as the projects I deal with g

Re: [BangPypers] [Announce] Online Python workshop

2013-09-15 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > "s|s" writes: > > [...] > > > Great effort. Would it be possible for you to inform little more in > > advance? I would like to be part of your online workshop, next whenever > it > > happens. > > I did email the list in advance but there w

Re: [BangPypers] Do you pin your requirements.txt ?

2013-09-14 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sep 15, 2013 4:37 AM, "Dhananjay Nene" wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: > > > Thanks to Travis, we test every commit, before deployment. > > > > I was perhaps misunderstood. If you test (even with say travis) but without > a pinned requirements.txt, and the

[BangPypers] Getting started with DTrace.

2013-09-14 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Balachandran Sivakumar < benignb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Sriram, > > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 6:35 AM, Sriram Narayanan > wrote: > > > > I've resumed learning dtrace for debugging on production. Given Paul Fox' > &g

Re: [BangPypers] Debugging functions/tools/ways

2013-09-13 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sep 13, 2013 3:58 PM, "Saager Mhatre" wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Dhruv Baldawa > >wrote: > > > > > This is what I use for debugging: > > > from IPython.core.debugger import Tracer; Tracer()() > > > > > > works most

Re: [BangPypers] https://github.com/pythonhacker/ladies.py

2013-09-07 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 1:27 AM, svaksha wrote: > Am reading all the responses, including Anand's apology, so I'll reply > to those later. One at a time. > > And since you responded to my email, here goes: > > On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Vinayak Hegde wrote: > > > > > > Nope. I was talking ab

Re: [BangPypers] https://github.com/pythonhacker/ladies.py

2013-09-07 Thread Sriram Narayanan
I've sent a few emails to Svaksha - first asking what exactly was not right, and then followed up stating that I didn't see the source code itself. I don't know what Anand had in mind writing such code. Knowing him and his strong sense of sarcastic humor, I'd like to reserve judgement on his actio

Re: [BangPypers] Change in Mailing list settings

2013-08-24 Thread Sriram Narayanan
GIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 24 August 2013 09:21 AM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > > I agree. There aren't all that many job postings, and even if the > > odd person hit a reply to all, we can just ignore it. > > > > What's more im

Re: [BangPypers] Change in Mailing list settings

2013-08-23 Thread Sriram Narayanan
I agree. There aren't all that many job postings, and even if the odd person hit a reply to all, we can just ignore it. What's more important is that responses to genuine questions reach the list instead of being missed out because of an inadvertent "Reply". -- Ram On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 8:26

Re: [BangPypers] Silent installation of Active Directory server using Python

2013-05-24 Thread Sriram Narayanan
You would be better off configuring AD using power shell scripts. You could always trigger these using python, if you want. I don't know if func has been ported to Windows yet, but I've used chef on Windows, and I know that puppet works too. Ram On May 24, 2013 6:57 PM, "Ashutosh Narayan" wrote:

Re: [BangPypers] May Meetup

2013-05-16 Thread Sriram Narayanan
A colleague wants to help. I've sent to you an offline mail with his contact info. Sriram On May 16, 2013 1:11 PM, "kracekumar ramaraju" wrote: > We have meet up saturday, still we don't have venue. CIS & HasGeek Venue > can't be used this week. Is there any one in the list can offer a place > w

[BangPypers] A Comparison of Mocking Frameworks

2013-05-08 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Hi everyone: A colleague pointed me to this comparison of mocking frameworks: http://garybernhardt.github.io/python-mock-comparison/ -- Sriram Belenix: www.belenix.org Twitter: @sriramnrn ___ BangPypers mailing list

Re: [BangPypers] [OT] Microsoft Office 365 for Education made mandatory for approved institutions by AICTE

2013-04-15 Thread Sriram Narayanan
The reason FOSCOMM was setup some years ago was because various such groups actually have some common interests. There are times when we need to get together to defend even other technologies and platforms. If we continue to declare "Not here" without constructively figuring out if the discussion

[BangPypers] Fwd: Python Software Foundation: Python Trademark at Risk

2013-02-14 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Fyi -- Forwarded message -- From: "Dmitrijs Ledkovs" Date: Feb 15, 2013 3:17 AM Subject: Python Software Foundation: Python Trademark at Risk To: , , < debian-le...@lists.debian.org> Dear All, Full article: http://pyfound.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/python-trademark-at-risk-in-europe-

Re: [BangPypers] Website change tracker

2012-06-08 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 10:50 AM, vid wrote: > On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: >> If you need to check for the absence of certain content, then write tests >> using Sahi or Selenium, and run those at periodic intervals. > > Does Sahi have python bin

Re: [BangPypers] Website change tracker

2012-06-08 Thread Sriram Narayanan
If you need to check for the absence of certain content, then write tests using Sahi or Selenium, and run those at periodic intervals. Ram On Jun 8, 2012 11:21 PM, "Bhavya" wrote: > Thanks everyone:)...Much appreciated. > I will work on it & let the group know how it goes. > > Thanks, > Bhavya >

Re: [BangPypers] How about meet-up

2012-01-16 Thread Sriram Narayanan
There's the Thoughtworks Koramangala office, for one. -- Sriram On 1/16/12, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > 2012/1/8 Pratap Chakravarthy > >> > +1 for anything really. Is there someone willing to talk about >> > something? >> >> Just this morning I was planning to make our web toolkit pluggdapps >> c

Re: [BangPypers] Auto Login to Website and Capturing more details

2011-12-27 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Alternatively, try Sahi. (http://sahi.co.in). There's an open source version available for download and use. -- Ram On 12/27/11, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > > Nikunj Badjatya writes: > > > [...] > >> The link in the 'resp' is true to my knowledge. I checked it by logging in >> at diff times. Its

Re: [BangPypers] How to create HTTPS Proxy server

2011-10-09 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 1:04 PM, steve wrote: > > # Map proxy URLs to backend server URL > ProxyPass / https://192.168.1.1:800/ > A correction -> The port number in this example should be 8000 instead of 800. > cheers, > - steve > > -- > random spiel: http://lonetwin.net/ > what i'm stumbling in

[BangPypers] An interesting post on "the next web app language"

2011-10-08 Thread Sriram Narayanan
http://seldo.com/weblog/2011/08/11/php_needs_to_die_what_will_replace_it -- Sriram ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

[BangPypers] Test Driven Django Development

2011-10-07 Thread Sriram Narayanan
https://github.com/hjwp/Test-Driven-Django-Tutorial -- Sriram ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] About pypy and bangpypers

2011-09-26 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Yes On 9/27/11, Saager Mhatre wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Sriram Narayanan > wrote: > >> I can talk about my experiences with porting it. >> >> -- Sriram >> > > Porting it to... Belenix? > > - d > _

Re: [BangPypers] About pypy and bangpypers

2011-09-26 Thread Sriram Narayanan
I can talk about my experiences with porting it. -- Sriram On 9/26/11, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > kracekumar ramaraju writes: > > > [...] > >> I don't have any experience, but willing to spend time. >> >>1. First lets start playing with PyPy and spend quite significant time >>with it. >>

Re: [BangPypers] About pypy and bangpypers

2011-09-26 Thread Sriram Narayanan
+1. We can meet at one of the Thoughtworks offices, or anywhere else. -- Sriram On 9/26/11, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > So, now that PyCon is over, shall me make plans for this? > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > > I'll give you a definite maybe. -Samuel Goldwyn >

Re: [BangPypers] List guidelines

2011-09-14 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > Fair enough. > > I don't think we'll ever arrive at an agreement about politeness and > decorum so I'll personally stick to the common denominator and stay > formal. > I'd say we should bring down this "formal" stuff a bit. > -- > ~nou

Re: [BangPypers] About pypy and bangpypers

2011-09-14 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On 9/14/11, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > I was hoping to resurrect this after PyCon India this weekend. I'm eager > to get it going. > Sounds good. I'll begin preparation for the meetup. For me, getting pypy to work will be a bit special, since I'll need to "port" it to run with what ever's availab

[BangPypers] About pypy and bangpypers

2011-09-14 Thread Sriram Narayanan
All: Some weeks ago, there was some discussion of a meetup to figure out what we could do with pypy. Have any list members conducted any investigations on that ? I'm asking because I'm interested. I'd like to see how I can package pypy for Belenix someday, and I want to pair with various python p

Re: [BangPypers] List guidelines

2011-09-14 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On 9/14/11, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Senthil Kumaran writes: > >> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> >>> Am I the only one who thinks this is backward? >> >> No, definitely not. But you seem to be giving undue importance to this >> discussion by creating hypothetical scenar

Re: [BangPypers] [JOB] - Yahoo!

2011-09-13 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Sriram Narayanan writes: > > > [...] > > >> I feel that poking fun at any company's business is in extremely >> disgusting taste. This was done once about Thoughtworks (the company I >> work with)

Re: [BangPypers] [JOB] - Yahoo!

2011-09-13 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Anand Balachandran Pillai writes: > > > [...] > > >> Cut the heat. IMHO it was a problem with the wording of the posting by >> the OP. If he had been more diplomatic and sugar-coated his posting, >> most of you would have remained silent. >

[BangPypers] About being a community

2011-09-13 Thread Sriram Narayanan
All: I've started to read the book made available by Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu Community manager. The book is called "The Art of Community Online", and is available here: www.artofcommunityonline.org I find this to be a good book. -- Sriram == Belenix: www.belenix.org _

Re: [BangPypers] python SVN delete functionality

2011-06-22 Thread Sriram Narayanan
There's also the python API to SVN which let's you d a lot of stuff. -- Sriram On 6/22/11, Shashidhar P wrote: > Dear Python developers I want to achieve svn delete functionality using > python v2.3.5 > > >>> I have repository and working copy > >>> I do checkin and checkout >

Re: [BangPypers] remote ip change

2011-06-22 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Baishampayan Ghose wrote: If you _want_ to involve python, then take a look at func. With Func, changing the machine IP is just one of the many sysadmin tasks you'll be able to perform. >>> >>> Do you have a URL Sriram? It sounds useful. >> >> https:

Re: [BangPypers] remote ip change

2011-06-22 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Sriram Narayanan writes: > >> If you _want_ to involve python, then take a look at func. With Func, >> changing the machine IP is just one of the many sysadmin tasks you'll >> be able to perform. > >

Re: [BangPypers] remote ip change

2011-06-22 Thread Sriram Narayanan
If you _want_ to involve python, then take a look at func. With Func, changing the machine IP is just one of the many sysadmin tasks you'll be able to perform. -- Ram On 6/22/11, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Nitin Kumar writes: > >> Hi All, >> >> I want to change the IP of remote server. I can do i

Re: [BangPypers] WSGI app instrumentation - middleware or other

2011-06-08 Thread Sriram Narayanan
I'll show a demo someday. It can work at various levels. Anyway, let the ideas continue to pour in. -- Ram On 6/8/11, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > 2011/6/8 Noufal Ibrahim : >> Sriram Narayanan writes: >> >>> Solaris, opensolaris, openindiana, freebsd, OSX. >>&g

Re: [BangPypers] WSGI app instrumentation - middleware or other

2011-06-08 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Solaris, opensolaris, openindiana, freebsd, OSX. Also see crispeditor for dtrace on linux. -- Sriram On 6/8/11, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Sriram Narayanan writes: > >> I recommend using DTrace. >> >> There was a video hosted on YouTube last night on using DTrac

Re: [BangPypers] WSGI app instrumentation - middleware or other

2011-06-08 Thread Sriram Narayanan
I recommend using DTrace. There was a video hosted on YouTube last night on using DTrace to understand MySQL performance. I have retweeted about it (@sriramnrn) today morning. If you use DTrace, you can understand latencies at various sections of the system. -- Sriram On 6/8/11, Sirtaj Singh Ka

Re: [BangPypers] User group meeting

2011-04-20 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Hey, where are we all meeting ? The Thoughtworks offices are available. -- Sriram ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] mac IP

2011-04-16 Thread Sriram Narayanan
If it's machine setup, then please use either puppet or chef or func. You'll get a lot by way of features. -- Ram On 4/15/11, Nitin Kumar wrote: > the reason for the same is: > > We got to machine setup, one is US and one in India, according to machine > location we need to use local server. > S

Re: [BangPypers] getpython.net Sprint (was Re: User group meeting)

2011-01-30 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Baiju M wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Baiju M wrote: >>> Hi All, >>>        Our mini sprint on getpython.net was moderately successful. >>> Thanks to a

Re: [BangPypers] getpython.net Sprint (was Re: User group meeting)

2011-01-30 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Baiju M wrote: > Hi All, >        Our mini sprint on getpython.net was moderately successful. > Thanks to all those who participated.  At 10 am there was no > one in the room except me.  Then I called some of my colleagues > to help on the work.  Rajesh, Srinivasu

Re: [BangPypers] refactoring

2010-12-05 Thread Sriram Narayanan
I sure hope that we don't dismiss the reading of such books just because "every experienced programmer knows about refactoring". -- Sriram On 12/6/10, Siddharta G wrote: > Nice quote. > > You hit the main point: Refactoring has always been done. Everyone does it. > The book just gives a taxonomy

Re: [BangPypers] refactoring

2010-12-05 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:39 PM, steve wrote: > I had sent this reply below earlier ...not sure why it didn't go thru' > ...anyways, enough has already been said about this, however, since I > already wrote this reply below, I thought I might as well make my point ... > > Hi Santosh, > > On 12/04/

Re: [BangPypers] refactoring

2010-12-02 Thread Sriram Narayanan
t how writing tests first could be viewed. For me, that meant considering "tests" to be a expression of requirements, which are then met by writing necessary and sufficient code. -- Ram On 12/3/10, Senthil Kumaran wrote: > On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 08:40:41AM +0530, Sriram Narayanan wro

Re: [BangPypers] refactoring

2010-12-02 Thread Sriram Narayanan
It's rather disappointing when I see a nice discussion thread degenerate into taking potshots at others - especially by posts by people who otherwise contribute in very constructive ways. I'm a Thoughtworker, proud of what and how we do (including promoting better software development practices).

[BangPypers] About Thoughtworks as a venue

2010-05-01 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Folks: I've been meaning to send this mail for a while. A number of teams at Thoughtworks were recently caught off-guard when there was a last minute office wide maintenance (pest control) scheduled at both our offices. This caused a venue problem for a number of user groups. Otherwise, the Thou

Re: [BangPypers] User group meeting this weekend

2010-04-25 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Yes, sorry about the really short notice. I had to cancel the Java and the Andriod user group meets at TW for the same reason :( We got the pest control work notice at the really last minute ! :( -- Ram On 4/25/10, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Arvind Jamuna Dixit >

Re: [BangPypers] User group meeting this weekend

2010-04-22 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Sorry, there are the very same pest control activities at Thoughtworks' Koramangala office as well ! -- Ram On 4/23/10, Diptanu Choudhury wrote: > Thoughtworks has an office in Koramangala as well, but the servers would be > down during the weekend, so there won't be any internet connectivity. I

Re: [BangPypers] Feb user group meeting

2010-02-23 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Could we meet when you folks are back? I'd like to present on Cintinuous Integration and on "What are Unit Tests" with a focus on experienced developers. -- Sriram On 2/23/10, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Baiju M wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Arvind Jam

Re: [BangPypers] January user group meeting

2010-01-22 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote: > > Do you folks upload the presentation/audio/video somewhere? I am much > interested in the buildbot talks. I'm getting my camera along. We'll record the video and then figure out how to get it online. -- Sriram ___

Re: [BangPypers] January user group meeting

2010-01-19 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > >> Ok, can we make this Jan 232 Saturday if we're ok with meeting at >> Thoughtworks ? >> > > Fine by me. What time? 1530? +1 > &

Re: [BangPypers] January user group meeting

2010-01-19 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Ok, can we make this Jan 232 Saturday if we're ok with meeting at Thoughtworks ? I want to go for a movie on Sunday ! :) -- Sriram ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] December user group meeting

2009-12-14 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > >> Since we have a few +1s, I've a proposal: >> >> >> >From a "code together" perspective, >> How about developing a ZFS mana

Re: [BangPypers] December user group meeting

2009-12-14 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Since we have a few +1s, I've a proposal: >From a "code together" perspective, How about developing a ZFS management application ? I can be the resident sysadmin/ZFS-guru, and we can develop something together. -- Sriram On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Srinivasachari wrote: > +1 > > Regards,

[BangPypers] [Reminder] BangPypers monthly meetup on Sun November 22 4 pm at Thoughtworks on LLVM-py

2009-11-19 Thread Sriram Narayanan
A reminder/confirmation - I just called Mahadevan and confirmed the following with him. -- Sriram -- Forwarded message -- From: Noufal Ibrahim Date: Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 3:17 PM Subject: Re: [BangPypers] BangPypers monthly meetup. To: Bangalore Python Users Group - India So I

Re: [BangPypers] BangPypers monthly meetup.

2009-11-12 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Shall we fix this for 22nd then? Is TW the venue? What time? > Seems OK to me. Let's have Mahadevan decide on the time. -- Sriram ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.pyt

[BangPypers] Google's Go - "Python meets C++"

2009-11-10 Thread Sriram Narayanan
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/10/google-go-language/ -- Sriram ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] Hi.

2009-11-10 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > +1 for 22nd. > +1 -- Sriram ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] About llvm and llvm-py

2009-10-31 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Ramdas S wrote: > Sriram, > > Can you send the right link for llvm-py http://code.google.com/p/llvm-py/ -- Sriram ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers

Re: [BangPypers] About llvm and llvm-py

2009-10-30 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Sriram Narayanan > wrote: >> Folks: >> >> LLVM just got released: http://lwn.net/Articles/358646/ >> >> While reading up more about LLVM, I chanced upon llvm-py, an

Re: [BangPypers] python zlib problem

2009-10-30 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Amit Sethi wrote: > Hi , > For some unknown reason ,  a bug or a screw up I did myself their is no > python-zlib which is supposed to be in standard library(python2.6 on ubuntu > jaunty).What is the best > way to install this in a non-obtrusive way .Its a very imp

[BangPypers] About llvm and llvm-py

2009-10-26 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Folks: LLVM just got released: http://lwn.net/Articles/358646/ While reading up more about LLVM, I chanced upon llvm-py, and invited the author (Mahadevan R) to present on llvm-py at BangPyper meet. Links: llvm : http://llvm.org/ llvm-py: http://mdevan.nfshost.com/llvm-py/index.html -- Sriram _

Re: [BangPypers] Opensolaris sessions on Saturday at 3 pm at Thoughtworks Bangalore

2009-10-24 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 12:51 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > This was quite remarkable. I enjoyed the whole thing very much. I had > to leave a little early so couldn't get the whole of the zfs demo. At > what time did you guys leave? > We left at 8:30, I think. The real presentation stuff got over

Re: [BangPypers] Opensolaris sessions on Saturday at 3 pm at Thoughtworks Bangalore

2009-10-23 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: > >  I was thinking of a laid back saturday, you have ruined it :-) >  I will be there, especially for session (2). > >  +1 I'm convinced that you'll enjoy session 1 even more, since you'll realize that you can now dtrace python c

[BangPypers] Opensolaris sessions on Saturday at 3 pm at Thoughtworks Bangalore

2009-10-23 Thread Sriram Narayanan
iting about the ZFS filesystem - Sriram Narayanan, Thoughtworks 3. Deployments made easy - Zones and ZFS - Moinak Ghosh, Belenix Lead Developer Venue: Thoughtworks Technologies, Tower C, Corporate Block, Diamond District, HAL Airport Road. Landmarks: - Near the Indiranagar Flyover off Inner Ring

[BangPypers] Let's have an indepth session on some opensolaris technologies

2009-10-21 Thread Sriram Narayanan
[BCC: Various Bangalore tech lists that I'm a member of] Folks: A number of us have heard of opensolaris and of technologies such as ZFS, Dtrace, Zones, etc. After giving small intro sessions on ZFS and on Zones, I've been approached by various attendees who have wanted an indepth intro to openso

[BangPypers] Ideas for an opensolaris demo for web app developers

2009-10-18 Thread Sriram Narayanan
All: I'm glad that I was able to show case ZFS basics to you all. Based on conversations that we had after the talk, Moinak and I have decided to come up with a presentation aimed at web programmers (mainly, Python web programmers). My intent is to present the following: - recreate an entire de

Re: [BangPypers] Open Calais ? Bellenix meeting

2009-10-18 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Hi, >  I had some stuff to take care of and was too tired to attend the > meeting. How did it go? Any tidbits that the list might benefit from? > The opencalais session was good. I'm going to tell my colleagues about this, and they'd surely

Re: [BangPypers] Weekend Meeting

2009-10-16 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Rajeev J Sebastian wrote: >> As a group, we can have something to look forward to, and an Indian >> distribution to which we all contribute to is one such thing. > > Do you mean an Indian Solaris distro ? (If you don't already know, > there are several indian linu

Re: [BangPypers] Weekend Meeting

2009-10-16 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai >> >>  Btw, I thought Konqueror was ZFS aware, so my question is it it >>  possible to do this entirely using a PyQT based layer which understands >>

Re: [BangPypers] Weekend Meeting

2009-10-16 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: > > Ok, all that text and > >  In short, your expectation is that we can get together and write some >  code in PyQt which can be used for Belenix apps as welll as (possibly) >  ported to KDE on Solaris. > >  Fine. Simple thou

Re: [BangPypers] Weekend Meeting

2009-10-16 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Rajeev J Sebastian wrote: >> I'll have some  CDs and Virtual Box images around. In case anyone >> wants to have Belenix installed onto their laptop, let me know. > > I would like to have a VBox image. Is it downloadable from somewhere, > or can you make it so ? >

Re: [BangPypers] Weekend Meeting

2009-10-16 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Rajeev J Sebastian wrote: >> My response was to the larger community, and not to just you :) > > > That's probably why you started your response with an "Err ... No" right ? > Rajeev, My "Err..no" was to you, and the remainder of my explanation was to all on the

Re: [BangPypers] Weekend Meeting

2009-10-16 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Rajeev J Sebastian wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Sriram Narayanan > wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Rajeev J Sebastian >> wrote: >>> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Sriram Narayanan >>> wrote

Re: [BangPypers] Weekend Meeting

2009-10-16 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Ramdas S wrote:[..] > >> What abt LiveCDs?[..] > > Even a CD image which we can copy over would be cool. > I'll have some CDs and Virtual Box images around. In case anyone wants to have Belenix installed

Re: [BangPypers] Weekend Meeting

2009-10-16 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Rajeev J Sebastian wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: >> On 10/16/09, Sriram Narayanan wrote: >>> >>> We can meet at TW this Sunday, no problem. >> >> One other thing that we'd discuss

[BangPypers] Video streaming and video recording of the meet

2009-10-15 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Folks: Let's assume that we have good bandwidth to stream video. Let me know what I need to set up here, and I'll see if I can have it ready by Sunday. We can also test all this before the meet. -- Sriram ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.

Re: [BangPypers] Weekend Meeting

2009-10-15 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On 10/16/09, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > > We can meet at TW this Sunday, no problem. One other thing that we'd discussed the last weekend was how those who are Python savvy can be a part of the Belenix developer community. I'd like to showcase some of Belenix - especially the

Re: [BangPypers] Weekend Meeting

2009-10-15 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On 10/16/09, Anand Balachandran Pillai wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Vishal wrote: > > +1 > > > > > > Thanks. Since this counts to around 6 people, let us have the meeting. > Hopefully more people will join in on the day. > > I will send another email to confirm this. > We can

Re: [BangPypers] User group meeting on Sunday?

2009-10-09 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Sure, come over. Noufal, I've replied to your private mail. -- Ram On 10/9/09, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Will some of the TW guys be around to chaperon the meeting? Sidu? > > > -- > ~noufal > http://nibrahim.net.in > ___ > BangPypers mailing list > Bang

Re: [BangPypers] How to send 1 GB Zip file to some remote machine using HTTP/HTTPS?

2009-09-10 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:24 PM, deepak gupta wrote: >> >> Yes it is return in python.[..] > > I expect it will be slow then. If you can install an rsync server on > the remote end, it would be nice. Then you can just rsync the files > ov

Re: [BangPypers] How to create Debug and Release code in Python

2009-06-15 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Jeff Rush wrote: > I've given this more thought.  In the April 2009 issue of Python > Magazine is a wonderful article by Paul McGuire on writing Domain > Specific Languages.  It shows how to intercept the import of specific > types of files to preprocess the source

Re: [BangPypers] Good Python training in blr

2009-06-15 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Ramdas S wrote: > IMHO, even an experienced hand in C/C++ or Java need not take to Python > easily, because of the baggage they carry, and they expect certain things to > work the way their favorite language works. This can be quite frustrating if > learning Python

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-13 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: > 2009/6/12 Srijayanth Sridhar : >> I don't doubt that its a global phenomenon, however, I am still curious >> about the reasons for its prevalence out here. > > I will add my little theory to this discussion. > > If you are from a middle c

Re: [BangPypers] Responding to people who lack the curiosity

2009-06-11 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote: > Now do you think a person who is lazy to type a few characters in an > Internet search engine (as evidenced by "Is there any tutorial. Should > we include any library?") would be interested at all in reading a > 60,000 words document? I

Re: [BangPypers] MOM - Meeting on Sunday May 3rd

2009-05-14 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > > I wont' be in Bangalore during this time, but I'll talk to two other > colleagues who could chaperone this meet. I'll also make sure that we > have network access over ethernet. > Folks. We'l

Re: [BangPypers] MOM - Meeting on Sunday May 3rd

2009-05-13 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:56 AM, VidA wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 21:59, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> This is good. I shall be there for the meeting on 17th. >> >> Venue : TW, Diamond District >> Time: 5pm - 7pm >> Date: 17 May >> Agenda : Follow up to last times meeting and taking the conferenc

Re: [BangPypers] Python Day India

2009-04-30 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: >> Sriram, can you book the venue and send out the details? >> > > Done. > > Time: Sunday 4 to 6 pm. Sorry, I went ahead and noted the timing withou

Re: [BangPypers] Python Day India

2009-04-30 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > Sriram, can you book the venue and send out the details? > Done. Time: Sunday 4 to 6 pm. Date: Sunday, May 3, 2009. Venue: Thoughtworks, Second Floor, Tower C, Corporate Block, Diamond District, HAL Airport Road, Bangalore 560 008 Landmar

Re: [BangPypers] Python Day India

2009-04-30 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote: > > So, is May 3 fine with everyone? Can we get a venue? Thoughtworks will be available as a venue. Let me know and I'll make the arrangements -- Ram ___ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@pytho

Re: [BangPypers] What's the exact plan tomorrow?

2009-02-20 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > that wont happen - 2pm is sacred as breakfast time for the BDFL The aforemention BDFL is known to be reasonable, and has made exceptions in the past. The last time around, he was at the venue at 10:45 am itself :) -- Sriram _

Re: [BangPypers] What's the exact plan tomorrow?

2009-02-20 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Parthan SR wrote: > Yes, they are also meeting at Thought Works today at 4.30 PM. They fixed > their meeting a day after we fixed ours (or rather moved our meet to TW from > ZeOmega) )and I indeed tell them when they were trying to fix it up. Both > the meets will

Re: [BangPypers] python

2009-01-09 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Saturday 10 Jan 2009 12:50:43 am Sreekanth B wrote: >> what u said may not be really true there are thousands out there >> in France and Germany who cannot even write a sentence in English;-) > > but if they did, they would spell '