Two weekends ago I attended and gave a talk at PyOhio 2014.

I'm really quite impressed with the how well organized this free conference was. The talks were high caliber. The conference drew attendees from a pretty wide area. Most folks I ran into were from outside of Ohio ...

Last night I gave a talk about Bobo at the NoVA Python Meetup.

Bobo is a minimalist Web framework for Python. Bobo was designed to be very easy to learn and remember (or re-learn). It's philosophy is that it's best for the components of a web application to ...

Last night I gave a talk at the Scala DC - MD - NOVA Meetup about my experience developing a caching Blob server for ZODB with Scala.

I thought this project was interesting because, although the code base is quite small, it touches on a number of areas of interest, including:

• Testing ...

I gave a talk at a joint meeting of DC Droids and Riak DC.

The slides can be found here:

http://www.jimfulton.info/talks/scala-android.html

I gave a talk at the FredDev meetup on our experience with agile methods and especially Kanban. This included a demonstration of our Asana-based 2-tiered Kanban application.

http://jimfulton.info/talks/zope-kanban.html

I gave a talk on a content-aware load balancer at PyCon 2012.

There's a video of the talk.

The zc.resumelb (source) is a content-aware load balancer for Python. When an application has a working set that's too big to fit in application cache, and when the applications ...

I "gave a keynote presentation <http://jimfulton.info/talks/What-I-Learned-as-the-Zope-Pope.html>`_ at Python Brasil 2011 sharing some perspectives on the History of the Zope project.

I gave a talk on deploying applications with zc.buildout at PyCon 2011.

Here's a video of the talk.

This talk discussed how we used buildout for deploying applications, including:

• Development
• building self-contained source releases (tarballs)
• Building production configurations of applications as well as support configurations (run scripts, logging ...