Michael Foord

London, UK

51.506325, -0.127144

www.voidspace.org.uk/pyt...

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About: Working for Resolver Systems in London, creating a spreadsheet development environment with IronPython. Currently writing a book on IronPython for Manning, called "IronPython in Action".

Where do you work? Resolver Systems
What do you use Python for? Work, rest and play
Primary Python frameworks/libraries you use? IronPython, ConfigObj
What Python topics most interest you? Concurrency, usability, agile development, testing
How many years have you been using Python? 5

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Blog Posts

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New Release: ConfigObj 4.5.3

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A new version of ConfigObj is now available, version 4.5.3. This version is a minor bugfix release. It fixes a relatively obscure bug, where an exc...

The Tart and his Sole Scion

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The esteemed Mr Tartley has been up to his usual tricks. This time he has been playing with the Chipmunk physics engine and Pyglet to flesh out som...

Chapter 14: Extending IronPython with C# / VB.NET

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I've just finished chapter 14 of IronPython in Action - well, finished a version I can send to my editor anyway. I had more fun writing this chapte...

Python in the Browser: Live Interactive Interpreter in an HTML Textarea

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A while ago I experimented with an interactive Python interpreter that ran in the browser using Silverlight. Unfortunately a couple of bugs with th...

You Don't Really Need It

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Python is my favourite language, by a very long way. That's not hard though, I've only done serious programming in Python, C# and Javascript and am...

Ironclad 0.4 Released: Use CPython Extensions from IronPython

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William Reade of Resolver Systems has announced a new release of our Ironclad project. Ironclad Home Page Download Binaries and Source for Ironclad...

Resolver One: Major New Release, Version 1.1

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This release represents four months of work and includes performance improvements, new features and bug fixes for Resolver One. Resolver One is an ...

London Geek Knight on IronPython

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The London Geek Knights hold regular geek meetings on a range of subjects in the London Thoughtworks offices. They're open to all, and on 24th July...

Python Magazine: Reading Configuration Files with ConfigObj

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The May edition of the Python Magazine is out; and technically it's still May so that counts I guess. The major articles are: Handling Configuratio...

PyCon UK: The Preparations Advance

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PyCon UK is on 12th-14th September in Birmingham. This year I'm part of the planning committee, and the preparations are making good progress. ... ...

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Comments

Daryl Spitzer:

Thank you for mock.

Jonas Beckman:

I follow your blog. Great stuff! Also, I bought Movable Python while ago.