Ian Bicking

My blog is my real homepage. You might look at the archives.

But here you can contact me:

Documents:

While most of what I write goes directly on my blog, I'm trying to collect some less timely things. Here's a couple other things:

Misc Presentations

Testing with py.test (a unit testing framework).

Packaging with Setuptools, a quick introduction to a packaging system.

SQLObject and Database Programming in Python

There's some other stuff in my Subversion home directory.

From PyCon 2006

Building Pluggable Software with Eggs

All about web programming (except programming). Steve Holden wrote up a summary as well.

SQL-API, a lightning talk about the SQL-API project.

From PyCon 2005

WSGI Middleware and WSGIKit; my main presentation. WSGIKit was renamed to Paste.

Why Web Programming Matters Most (which I didn't get to present, but then posted about on my blog)

A Simple Metaclass (which also became a post)

From PyCon 2004

Dealing with stale code in long-running processes Webware's Shotgun Approach
This is from a lightning talk.

PyLogo: the Logo Language implemented in Python
From a lightning talk, a very brief introduction to PyLogo.

From PyCon 2003

The Web Framework Shootout
It's a little outdated, but still potentially useful.