Benjamin W. Smith

Benjamin W. Smith

Benjamin W. Smith  //  Sysadmin by trade, Pythonista by passion. Dad to two boys and a girl. Guitarist. I like my coffee black, just like my metal.

Mar 24 / 8:24pm

Psyched for Pycon 2009

I’m jazzed to be heading to Chicago again this year for pycon. Last year I had a blast and learned a lot. I even got to apply some of what I learned in practice at work and on personal projects! I’m hoping that I’ll take away as much value from the conference this year. A quick look at the talks suggest that won’t be a problem.

I’m going to try to blog while I’m there, but most likely you’ll get more out of me via twitter, so why not follow me there?

Here’s the list of talks I really want to attend:

There is no order here, scheduling is the tricky part..

There’s more, but those are the ones that stuck out to me.. Don’t think I’m in too much danger of missing anything this year.

A few of us at AG Interactive are planning a night of getting together for what we’re dubbing as #pyconbeer on twitter, so keep a search up: Twitter #pyconbeer I’m thinking we’re going to shoot for Friday evening, the 27th.

Hope to see many of you there and put names to faces!

Pycon 2009

Filed under  //  pycon   python  
Mar 16 / 7:45am

PyCon2008 Pictures.

Take a look at my Flicker for some fun pictures of my time at pycon 2008 in Chicago. Good times!

Filed under  //  chicago   pycon   python  
Mar 16 / 6:23am

Cleveland Bidding for PyCon 2010

Take a look over at Dave Stanek's post about hosting PyCon in 2010. I think it's a phenomenal idea. Cleveland is an inexpensive place to host a conference with the big city attractions that prevent boredom. I can personally attest to the fun-factor here as it's part of the reason I chose to stay. Cleveland also has a good sized python community as well as pretty heavy python use in the tech companies.

In short, Cleveland loves python and we think Pythonites will love Cleveland, too.

Filed under  //  pycon   python  
Mar 13 / 11:50pm

PyCon fun..

Currently in a session about PyTriton Petabyte File system. Interesting stuff. Tonight we're going to head down to The Ram Bar and check out their brews. I have some pictures of our awesome useless trip downtown last night, but I can't seem to locate an extra usb cord. If anyone has one, look for me, or reply here and let me know!

Tomorrow I think we're going to The Map Room where I'm looking forward to a Black Out Stout!

In the middle of writing this blog I ended up moving next door to the "Python in System Administration", hoping to take a lot away from this.

Filed under  //  beer   pycon   sysadmin  
Mar 7 / 3:16am

Markdown support.

In the interest of adopting newish technology and request from a user I'm happy to let everyone know that my comment sections (and blog authoring area, yay!) now use Markdown for, erm, Markup :).

Thanks for your patience on this very pressing matter.

On a side note, 6 days till PyCon!

Filed under  //  geek   markdown   pycon   python