The inaugural Colorado Python UnConference starts Saturday at 9 a.m. Please RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/frpythoneers/calendar/11167624/ if you intend to come.

Ok, so I've let this "blog" thing slide for quite a while.

An alpha source code release of Python 3.0 was made available this morning. Fire up your compiler and help us test the brand-new version of the Best Programming Language Evaaar.

Last Saturday, the Front Range Pythoneers tackled some Jython tasks.

The magpie has landed--our big patch to enable proper Oracle database support in Django was merged into trunk. Happy day!

If that means something to you, then we need your help testing.

Last night's Front Range Pythoneers meeting drew at least 16 attendees...

This is a quick plug for an indispensible web development site, DjangoSnippets.org. If you do agile web development the Django Way, go browse around and I guarantee you'll learn a couple tips or tricks you'll want to go implement.

I am jazzed about the OLPC project. As fellow Front Range Pythoneer Duncan McGreggor points out, it's one reason why Python will rule the world. And Duncan really hits the nail on the head in hoping that the kids who get the funky green laptops will have a formative learning experience the way so many of us coders did when we were young.

The best talk so far: Michelle Levenesque's "Internet Censorship: A Case Study." Wow. That's code that means something.