Blue Sky On Mars

Check out the picture in this Engadget article: OLPC BTest-2 XO beta machine sequel arrives. That picture was clearly taken at PyCon this past weekend. In fact, it even looks like that PyCon badge visible in the back is Ian Bicking’s. Gadget news is not what we normally expect from PyCon

• Announcing the lift web framework version 0.1.0 - David Pollak’s Blog
  A web framework in a statically typed language doesn’t need to suck. Check this out.
  (tags: scala web development java lift)

The Michigan Python Users Group will be meeting next on Thursday, March 1. Currently on the agenda is a PyCon recap from those of us who were at PyCon. As usual, the meeting will be at the Arbor Networks in downtown Ann Arbor.

Feel free to bring along any other Python topics you might have.

• macosxhints.com - Install an iSync plugin for K800 support
  (tags: isync mac k800i mobile AddressBook)

• RightContext
  Provides context sensitive right click menus
  (tags: javascript contextmenu)

• James Ward: How I Overcame My Fear of Flash
  (tags: flex flash)

Initial reaction to TGWebServices has been positive, and people have downloaded it… I haven’t had any direct feedback from users yet, but I’m certainly a user of the project. I’ve just released a new bugfix release. See the changes here: TGWebServices changes for 1.0.2.

• Seven steps to remarkable customer service - Joel on Software
  Fog Creek’s approach to customer service.
  (tags: business customer service support software)

• Neil Blakey-Milner on TGWebServices, soaplib, Elixir and Breve
  (tags: python turbogears soap tgwebservices)
• :: cleverdevil ::: Making a Statement with Elixir
  (tags: sqlalchemy elixir python orm)