Steve's New Zope Thing

Welcome to my new Zope site. Everything you see here is running under Zope, a Python-based web application server (the old content, which was still served up by apache, is mostly gone). For more info on Zope and Python, see the Zope Quick Start and Python.org's Python for Beginners.

Get ready to interact with users and developers at the next PyCon. Why Python? (found on a blog somewhere...)

FOSSCON (Free and Open Source Software Conference) is a community-focused live event designed to build and strengthen relationships between Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) developers and users.

Nerd articles for regular people (articles on computing by a nerd) on a selection of topics. The one on security would be a good place to start (hint: not all operating systems are created equal).

It's now too late to attend SCALE 6x, the SoCal Linux Expo, February 8-10 at the Westin in Los Angeles, CA (sorry, try again next year).

Main things you can see here, more or less:

• General Geography Course Info - Various pages for geography course information (both Physical Geography and Human Geography) and related links. Current Homework for Geog 101 (Fall 2007) is available; please update your bookmarks. Short IRC primer for online office hours.
• Earth Sci. Software - Some links and descriptions of freely available software for earth science, geography, and general scientific work (most are already included in Gentoo Linux).
• Steve's World - Papers, CV, and the feedback form (and other miscellaneous stuff).
• My Software - Software packages I work with, mostly for Gentoo now. Fire up an IRC client and drop into #code-hell, #Ada, or one of the #gentoo-* channels (on freenode) for more info. Look for nerdboy...
• GeoForum - Geo-political discussion forum for my Human Geography class (Geography 102, Spring 2002). Check out the articles; I think it worked out very well overall. We should have some new software enhancements in the near future.
• PHHS Alumni site - A CMF portal and Squishdot forum for alumni of my old high school, including Class of '77 reunion info. If you're an alumnus of Patrick Henry High School, or Patrick Henry Evening High, feel free to join the portal.
• Image Archive - Random image library. Some photos of various trips and conferences (one to Lassen Volcanic Park a few years ago, and a couple of trips to AMS meetings in Orlando and San Diego; see the Steve's world page for abstracts and more). Also includes Linux World Expo pics from the west coast; the cheesy movies are on my Gentoo page. And what geeky photo archive would be complete without geeks, hardware pics, and desktop screenshots...
• Steve's CVS Repository - Snippets of code and small programs I've written or collected, including some decent examples of Ada, Python, C, etc. Questions about the code, or programming, languages, tools, etc, can be asked in #code-hell or #ada on freenode.net (see my short IRC page). Feel free to drop in and chat!
• The Wyrd - MP3 versions of some tunes from my old college band. Listen if you dare...
• Downloads - Some src.rpms (migrating from RH to cAos, should be compatible with recent redhat spinoffs), plus some Xchat-2 scripts, some kernel configs, Wryd mp3's, and miscellaneous other stuff.

As I get the chance, the CVS repository migration to Subversion will happen when the web server is migrated (again) to new hardware (this time with lemony-fresh RAID!). Much of this site will probably always be under development, but it shouldn't lose anything important, and it should always work (as long as the power stays on, anyway).

Python is so cool; check the weather in Cocoa Beach or Santa Maria here. It's updated every 15 minutes from the NOAA METAR data server.

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Last updated: 03/09/2008 15:56