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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...

PyCon will be held in Chicago from March 14-16 (with tutorials on the 13th and sprints afterward). Registration is now open at http://us.pycon.org/2008/registration/new/ The tutorials and sessions both look great, and there are also lightning talks and open spaces . I'm even hoping to lure my scientist...

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....

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...

If you haven't heard about the One Laptop Per Child program, it's worth investigating. This is a privately funded project, targeted toward providing laptops to children around the world. The laptops themselves run on Linux, and are pretty much indestructible. The giving program allows you to...

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...

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...