Ian Ayres Carrots and Sticks talk at Quantified Self Boston 2010

Ian Ayres, author of "Carrots and Sticks: Unlock the Power of Incentives to Get Things Done" gave an informative and entertaining talk at the Boston Quantified Self meetup this week. We captured all of in on Video. It's rather long so I broke it into four parts. Enjoy: Part 1

quantified self carrot and stickk part 1 from PK Shiu on Vimeo.

Part 2

quantified self carrot and stickk part 2 from PK Shiu on Vimeo.

Part 3

Quantified Self Carrot and Stickk Part 3 from PK Shiu on Vimeo.

Part 4

quantified self carrot and stickk part 4 from PK Shiu on Vimeo.

And the Book:

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Paul Bissex Presenting at the Boston Django Meetup 2010

Paul Bissex, author of "Python Web Development with Django", described how he use Django to replace two legacy desktop applications at hallmark.edu at the Boston Django meetup this month. Because of Django's ease of use and robustness, not only he replaced and deploy those apps easily, the apps has been running error free for a very long time!

Paul Bissex Presenting at the Boston Django Meetup 2010 from PK Shiu on Vimeo.

Jacob Kaplan-Moss on DevOps

Jacob gave a talk at the Boston Django Meetup this month on the topic of DevOps -- The role of the developer and the role of sysadmin are merging, and it is a good thing. This idea certainly resonate with me. I started my career as a DevOps by necessity -- I worked with a new and proprietary mini-computer, the Stratus. The OS was designed to be a developer's OS. All the operation support tools are designed for used by developers. It was a great OS to work with. When I moved to the *nix world, I met Ben, still one of the best sysadmin I know, who actually introduced me to Python. The world has come full cycle now. With utility computing and browser based clients, small team with small budgets launch large scale, fast growing web applications, developers need to be their own sysadmin as well. This is the video of Jacob's talk. I was a little bit late and missed a few minutes at the beginning.

Jacob Kaplan-Moss on DevOps at Boston Django Meetup 2010 from PK Shiu on Vimeo.

2010 May Boston Python Meetup Videos

Here are the videos for the Boston Python Meetup in May, on "Testing". Two speakers were Marshall Weir on "Testing, Where Do I Start?" and Stephan Richter on "How to Test the Hard Stuff". The videos are pretty long. I ran out of SD space at the end so missed a little bit of info at the end. There were constructions at NERD with banging and buzzing. It is amazing that we got even this much usable audio from it.

Boston Python Meetup 2010 May Part 1 from PK Shiu on Vimeo.

Part I.

Boston Python Meetup May 2010 Part II from PK Shiu on Vimeo.

Part II

J2EE to Django, slides for the Presentation at Cambridge Python Meetup

I gave a short presentation on Django to the Cambridge Python Users group earlier. Nate has a great writeup of the event and the other presentations that evening. I just want to share the slides here. The slides are just visual reminders and do not stand on their own. If you want more info free feel to shoot me an email. I switched from J2EE to Django as my sole web application platform two years ago and has not looked back since. It allows me to develop, and more importantly maintain, web apps faster and better. It is more time and cost effective for my customers and I.

Slides from J2EE to Django Presentations at Cambrdge Python Group from PK Shiu on Vimeo.