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Vancouver Python users group meeting is being held at ActiveState on Tuesday December 1, 2009 at 7pm.

This weeks topic:

Jamu Kakar: How to use Storm with a focus on some common patterns to common problems

Doug Latornell: PyYAML, flickrapi, and TkInter in a Desktop Image Display App

Location:

ActiveState 1700 - 409 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC

Package managers are useful things. For language distributions, they simplify the job of finding and installing modules, libraries or extensions for that language.

Development teams can finally hone their Perl, Python and Tcl programming skills with the new Business Training program ActiveState launched today. There are a lot of benefits to encouraging developers to polish their programming skills.

One obvious reason is that the development team could become better experts in coding with Perl, Python and Tcl. For their organization, this means a couple of things:

Title: PyCon
Location: Chicago, IL
Link out: Click here
Description: We wouldn't miss PyCon 2009--and neither would over 1200 other Pythonistas. With over a week of Python-related activities--including two days of tutorials and five days of sprints--it's a massive event and massive gathering.
Start Date: 2009-03-25
End Date: 2009-04-02

Yesterday we released Komodo 4.4, which is the final minor release of Komodo before we hit the big 5-oh. You can read all the usual stuff here on Komodo IDE for Perl, Python, Tcl and more.

My personal list of favourite / awesome features in this release:

Hooray, Komodo IDE and Komodo Edit 4.2 have been released! There's a little something for everyone in this release; I'm most excited about the new auto update feature. No more checking for the latest features or need to reinstall Komodo...

Hooray, Komodo IDE and Komodo Edit 4.2 have been released!