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The end of the month is sort of light on tech events in Ann Arbor, but STILL there are things to do within driving distance! PyOhio is going on in Columbus, Ohio on Saturday July 26. It's a free event, and includes talks, open spaces, lightning talks, and poster sessions. If you're planning to...

I'm really looking forward to CodeMash 2008. There is an amazing list of speakers. Here's a subset of the talks that interest me (not in any particular order) Testing with Guice, by Dick Wall Dick is a cohost of the Java Posse podcast, which is invaluable for keeping up to date on Java. He's...

CodeMash is a conference that I'm involved with, as an organizer. Next year's event will be held Jan 9-11 (panel discussion the evening of the 9th, with full days on the 10th and 11th), at the same location as the 2007 event: the Kalahari Resort and Indoor Water Park in Sandusky, OH. CodeMash...

Ah, a new month and more tech events in Ann Arbor. All meetings are free and open to the public. SRT is happy to say that we will be hosting several of these meetings in our new office, at 206 S. Fifth, Suite 200. That's at the corner of Fifth and Washington, directly above the Linux Box. Entrance...

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...

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...

Some on schedule, some on holiday delay First, who IS meeting. Then, who ISN'T. The Michigan Python User Group is forging ahead with a meeting this week. On Thursday, July 5, MichiPUG will meet at Arbor Networks , where Mark Ramm will talk about what to look for in TurboGears 2.0 (unreleased and...

Thursday, June 7 at 7 pm For the June meeting (June 7 at 7PM, at Arbor Networks ), Carsten Haese will be giving a talk on Python's DBAPI. The DBAPI is like Java's JDBC. It's a database independent way to connect to databases and run queries. Arbor Networks is at: 220 East Huron Street, 6th...

Meeting review/notes from May 2, 2007 On Wednesday, May 2, Joe O'Brien made the trip from Columbus to present a talk on Ruby for the Enterprise, for the Ann Arbor Computer Society . We first made Joe's acquaintance in the time leading up to CodeMash 2007, when he saw that we were looking for...

Well, the CodeMash conference has come and gone. Ah, all of that planning and now it’s over. How will I spend my days if I don’t have to help plan and publicize this event? Maybe I’ll actually get some work done (and see my kids)! The conference was very cool. One problem in helping...