Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London: Ten lines of code

2007-03-19 Thread Richard Smedley
> Funnily enough, my company's business revolves around a "discovery > engine" which is entirely written in python. It uses wmi, ssh, snmp > and other technologies to find and gather information from customers' > server estates. We use omniORB (it's developer works for us), > BerkeleyDB, and a w

Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London: Ten lines of code

2007-03-19 Thread Andy Robinson
Michael Grazebrook wrote: > @Tim > Nobody has volunteered off-line. I reckon you volunteered! Thanks. I'm > going to try to persuade Andy Robinson to do 10 minutes if I can, but > he's on holiday this week. Oi. It's a BUSINESS TRIP. Never mind that I am with the tourist board of an exotic tr

Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London: Ten lines of code

2007-03-19 Thread Pete Ryland
On 18/03/07, Tim Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I must have met you or one of your colleagues > at one of the London Python meetups some months ago, > at the Bank of England place. (And, I think, had > some email correspondence with someone as well). Quite possible. I do go to these

Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London: Ten lines of code

2007-03-19 Thread Tim Golden
Michael Grazebrook wrote: > @Tim > Nobody has volunteered off-line. I reckon you volunteered! Thanks. I'm going > to > try to persuade Andy Robinson to do 10 minutes if I can, but he's on holiday > this week. > > The proposal I'm making is so basic (in Python terms) that if the worst came > t

Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London: Ten lines of code

2007-03-18 Thread Michael Grazebrook
@Tim Nobody has volunteered off-line. I reckon you volunteered! Thanks. I'm going to try to persuade Andy Robinson to do 10 minutes if I can, but he's on holiday this week.  The proposal I'm making is so basic (in Python terms) that if the worst came to the worst I could do it myself, despite

Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London: Ten lines of code

2007-03-18 Thread Tim Golden
Pete Ryland wrote: > Funnily enough, my company's business revolves around a "discovery > engine" which is entirely written in python. It uses wmi, ssh, snmp > and other technologies to find and gather information from customers' > server estates. We use omniORB (it's developer works for us), > B

Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London: Ten lines of code

2007-03-17 Thread Pete Ryland
On 17/03/07, Tim Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've never used WMI > > Just in case (and it's mildly ambiguous from your > one-liner above): WMI is an API for monitoring and > to some extent controlling your Windows-based system, > *not* a user-interface-building toolset. Obviously, > you m

Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London: Ten lines of code

2007-03-17 Thread Michael Foord
Tim Golden wrote: > Michael Grazebrook wrote: > [snip..] > > > If you're really after an interface builder, I know > from his blog that Michael Foord has done stuff with > IronPython and the .NET Windows Forms stuff, so maybe > he could step forward. (But I'll leave that up to him) I'm very interes

Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London: Ten lines of code

2007-03-17 Thread Tim Golden
Michael Grazebrook wrote: > Allow me a trip into fantasy land. I'd like to play with an idea for a > lecture of broad appeal suitable for the 11th, where we addresses a > wider audience of non-Python users. What do you think? > > *Ten lines of code - Python's power* > *Lecture by* ???, Michael G

Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London: Ten lines of code

2007-03-17 Thread Michael Grazebrook
Allow me a trip into fantasy land. I'd like to play with an idea for a lecture of broad appeal suitable for the 11th, where we addresses a wider audience of non-Python users. What do you think? Ten lines of code - Python's power Lecture by ???, Michael Grazebrook, and ??? Date & Time: 11th Apr