Talk: The Python Programming Language

10 Jun 2004

On Tuesday night I gave a talk for the Western Cape Linux Users' Group on the Python Programming language. From why you should use Python to the Python syntax to the Standard Library, and the available Third Party libraries. It seemed pretty well-received, so I'm reasonably happy. I improvised a "Link Grabber" using SGMLParser from sgmllib in about a minute during the talk - I didn't know I had it in me. Anyway, the slides and notes are on my web site on a page dedicated to the talk.

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Hi, I'm Neil Blakey-Milner, a technology generalist most interested by open source, security, and building scalable systems (especially if I get to use the Python programming language).

I "work" at the incredibly fun web-sites-for-everyone startup SynthaSite based in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa.

What I do

  • StarCamp

    I was the main instigator behind this 2-day unconference in December 2007 in Cape Town. There'll be another one in Cape Town around July.

  • GeekDinner

    I help out in making these geek social events happen every two months in Cape Town since March 2007.

  • SynthaSite

    I make sure that the systems run smoothly at this Cape Town-born Web 2.0 startup.

  • Presentations

    I speak publically on a number of topics - generally related to technical aspects of open source software or on software development.

  • Code

    I've written a few software projects of my own over the years (although mostly I'm the only user of them).

  • Photos

    I'm far from an artist, but I enjoy capturing my experiences on camera.

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