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Even though it's summertime, there are still a lot of meetings in Ann Arbor this week, and next. On Wednesday, July 2, Chris Sellers will be talking about Amazon EC2 at the Ann Arbor Computer Society meeting. That meeting will be held at SRT Solutions, 206 S. Fifth Ave, Suite 200, Ann Arbor, MI....

Thursday night, June 19, SRT's very own Darrell Hawley will be speaking on IronPython at the Greater Lansing Area .NET User Group. If you read his blog , you will know that he's been working hard on this talk, refining the content as well as his speaking technique. That's not to say that...

It's the first week of the month again ... so there are user group meetings galore. Wednesday, June 4 at 6:00 pm is the Ann Arbor Computer Society meeting. The topic is PostgreSQL 8.3 and Beyond. PostgreSQL is a free and open source database. The meeting will be held at SRT Solutions, 206 S. Fifth...

Project Euler problem 3 reads as follows: The prime factors of 13195 are 5, 7, 13 and 29. What is the largest prime factor of the number 600851475143 ? There are no special Python features here that really require explaining. The logic is also straightforward: find the smallest prime that divides evenly...

Problem number 2 reads "Find the sum of all the even-valued terms in the Fibonacci sequence which do not exceed four million." The resolution to this problem is not quite as simple as the previous one, but it's not far off. def fib(maxFibNumber): a, b = 0, 1 while a < maxFibNumber: if...

I was first introduced to the term polyglot when I was in high school. Our French class did a presentation at a Foreign Language Day. I have this vague recollection that the theme of the day was "Polyglots Have More Fun". I've always liked the word, so I was thrilled to see Neal Ford using...

Lately a number of posts on Project Euler , a series of predefined mathematical/computer science puzzles, have come to my attention. Bill Wagner has started a series of posts solving the Euler problems in C# and Dustin Campbell has posted one solution in F#. Several of my co-workers at SRT Solutions...

I attended my first PyCon this year. It was in Chicago, and I was able to take Amtrak from Ann Arbor to Chicago (for only $27!). The trip was quite pleasant, and I will say that I am definitely going to take Amtrak to Chicago again in the future. My kids are already looking forward to it (to wit: do...

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.