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Yes, it's the first week of the month again. The Ann Arbor Computer Society meeting is tomorrow night, April 2, at 6 pm. Jay Wren will be speaking on the Boo Programming Language and DSLs (Domain Specific Languages). Boo is a statically typed language that runs on the CLR. It has Python-inspired...

The Michigan Python User Group will do some live coding of one or more of the the Code Kata's from Dave Thomas: http://codekata.pragprog.com/ The meeting will be held at 206 S. Fifth Ave, Suite 200, Ann Arbor, MI. It will start around 7 pm. MichiPUG meetings are free and open to the public.

We had a discussion at the office this afternoon that centered around how to attract a younger group of people to the computer user group meetings. We got several suggestions out of this, but are looking for more ideas. First of all, WHY do we want to attract a younger crowd? Well, the average age of...

It's the first week of the month. Do my children wonder where their mother is? On Tuesday, Dec. 4, Brent Hill of Google will be presenting "Everything you want to know about blogs and RSS". That event will be at the Google office in Ann Arbor at McKinley Towne Center, 5th Floor, 201 S....

It's the first of the month, do you know which user group meetings you're going to yet? Here are some to choose from. I believe that tonight is the Ruby MI user group meeting, but their website doesn't seem to be responding, so I can't check for sure. You may recall that the Java User...

Russell Whitaker, a software engineer at Google came to town last Thursday, August 2, to do a tech talk for a special joint meeting of the Michigan Python User Group and Ann Arbor Computer Society. While the topic mentioned Python, it was pretty generic and could/should be applied across all languages...

Last night, Google, the Ann Arbor Computer Society and the Michigan Python User Group met at Google Ann Arbor for a Tech Talk. About 60 people showed up for the talk by Russell Whittaker Whitaker (Google Software Engineer) on Test Driven Development, and were also treated to appetizers and beer and wine...

Registration is now closed Google closed registration for the joint meeting of the AACS and MichiPUG after registrations maxed out around 90. We're going to have a full house for Russell Whitaker's talk on Python Test Driven Development. I'm thrilled at the turnout and I sincerely hope that...

Google Tech Talk in Ann Arbor, August 2 Google has confirmed the speaker and topic for the Tech Talk in Ann Arbor on Thursday that will be a joint meeting between the Ann Arbor Computer Society and the Michigan Python User Group. Russell Whitaker, Google Software Engineer, will be our speaker. The gathering...

Details still coming Google has announced 2 different Tech Talks to be held in the Ann Arbor area in the next few weeks. Both meetings will be held at the Google offices in Ann Arbor and registration is required because seating is limited, but both events will be free and open to the public. Google is...