http://www.christophermerle.com A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:01:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en To keep up on the Python universe I follow Planet Python which is a blog aggregator and to keep up on my two favorite Python products Django and Plone I follow Django Community and Planet Plone respectively. I sort of fell into Python through Zope when I started working at ... http://www.christophermerle.com/2008/11/20/planet-plone/ I'm not going to give a complete list of social web tools that I'm using, but I have this blog, a Livejournal account, Facebook, Twitter, and for IM I use Trillian to aggregate ICQ, AOL IM, and Yahoo! Messenger. Not to mention LinkedIn, and a few other websites I subscribe ... http://www.christophermerle.com/2008/11/18/twitterize-me/ Although I've become a big fan of Django, my introduction to Python was through Zope. Zope led to Plone which I've been using for a few years now. Plone can be customized but it's a steep learning curve. I've found a slide show with some tips for customizing this wonderful ... http://www.christophermerle.com/2008/11/08/plone-resources/ In February of 2007 I attended my second Pycon, a conference devoted to the open source programming language Python. One of the coolest system of presentations I saw were the lightning talks. Each presenter gets only 5 minutes to give his spiel. The one that made the biggest impression on ... http://www.christophermerle.com/2008/10/29/vote-for-python/ Since I've started learning Python and using it I've been learned Zope, Plone, and Django, and I've been to 3 PyCons. I really like the Python community. To keep on on all things Python I follow Planet Python (planet.python.org). It's a monster RSS feed following dozens of python related blogs. It ... http://www.christophermerle.com/2008/10/26/planet-python/