Baiju Muthukadan's Blog

PyCon India 2014 Call for Proposal deadline is approaching. Now there are 90+ proposals in the funnel . If you haven't proposed any talk yet, this is the time! Since we have 90+ proposals, chance for extending date of deadline is less. So, hurry!

IMHO, every Python community member should try to promote Python 3. I know there are criticisms about Python 3 -- whatever it is, " Python 3 is the present and future of the language ". Constructive criticisms should be welcomed and that should lead to better Python 3.x releases. As a community member what we can do to promote Python 3 ? I am looking forward to your thoughts on this.  Please write your comments here or you can write it in your blog and leave a link here. Before giving any new suggestions, let me check what are the small things that I have tried. In the beginning of 2011, I have created a website with the help of other community members to increase the adoption of Python 3 by collecting issues in a central location.  That idea didn't worked well, then I dropped that project. I have given a lightning talk about that project during PyCon 2011 in Atlanta . I have tried to use Python 3 for my personal projects and written blogs about my experience .

The Sixth edition of PyCon India is being held in Bangalore,India from 26th September 2014 to 28th September 2014. The organizers of PyCon India 2014 are looking for talk and workshop proposals to fill the formal presentation and workshop tracks. We accept proposals on a very broad range of topics related to Python programming. Submit your proposal here:  http://in.pycon.org/funnel/2014/

This is the beginning of an attempt to write more things in my blog. I am thinking to write more personal things :-) Well, when I say "personal", I mean Religion , Family, Politics etc. I used to write mostly technical topics in my blog. Writing personal matters is very different from technical stuff. So, I would like to do some preparations. I know that my blog is subscribed at many places. Some of them are various Planets (public blog aggregators) and others are individual subscriptions. In addition to this, I have linked my blog with Facebook. So my writings are reaching out to such a wide audience. This includes my friends from childhood, family and extended family members, neighbors, classmates from my schools and colleges, colleagues from current and previous organizations, participants from my various training and workshops, friends from Python and other FOSS communities, and many other friends. The topics that I am writing may not be interesting or pleasing for all.

I was playing with Go programming language (Golang) recently. Go looks like an interesting programming language.  I will show you how you can install Go in a 64 bit GNU/Linux system. Installation To install Go in a 64 bit GNU/Linux: cd $HOME wget -c https://go.googlecode.com/files/go1.1.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz tar zxvf go1.1.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz mkdir mygo You can download source and binary packages of Go from from here:  https://code.google.com/p/go/downloads/list To set PATH and other environment variables, add these lines at the end of $HOME/.bashrc: export GOROOT=$HOME/go export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin export GOPATH=$HOME/mygo export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin Running a program To run a program: go run <program.go> Here is an example hello world program: package main import "fmt" func main() { fmt.Printf("Hello, world.\n") } Save the above code in a hello.go and run it like this: go run hello.go You can build (compile) a

I received the first Kenneth Gonsalves Memorial Award for contributions towards advocacy and adoption of Python programming language in India. My thanks to the Indian Python Programming Community and Python Software Society of India (PSSI) for the award. The award was given on the first day of PyCON India 2013 conference (last Saturday).  This is the 5th year of   PyCON India , There was more than 1100 attendees this time. The keynotes, talks, workshops and panel discussion (on Python in education) were great. I had my workshop (tutorial) on Selenium last Friday. I hope the video will be available soon.