{"id":97,"date":"2009-05-18T18:14:30","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T22:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mail.ale.org\/?p=97"},"modified":"2009-05-18T18:14:30","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T22:14:30","slug":"ale-central-mtg-for-thurs-may-21st-2009-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ale.org\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"ALE CENTRAL MTG. for Thurs., May 21st, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nThe feature presentation at the ALE Central Meeting<br \/>\nat 7:30pm on Thursday, May 21st, will be: <font size=\"+1\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Wonderful Widgets of Wx, Python Style&#8221;<\/font><\/strong><br \/>\nas presented by the often distracted<br \/>\nbut always erudite Charles Shapiro <\/p>\n<p>Synopsis:<br \/>\n&#8212; Follow our intrepid coder into the dark thickets of cross-platform<br \/>\nGUI programming as we explore the exciting world of wxPython,<br \/>\na Python interface to the excellent  WxWidgets C library.  This talk<br \/>\nwill feature a close look at  some toy programs and a demonstration<br \/>\nof an actual, complete WxPython application.<\/p>\n<p>bio:<br \/>\n&#8212; Charles Shapiro is a fan of fencing, juggling, gadgetry, RC toys<br \/>\nand most anything the lesser world considers &#8220;geek&#8221; or &#8220;gear head&#8221;.<br \/>\nConsistent to this calling he has been a professional programmer for<br \/>\nover 10 years, specializing in C and unix with a couple years of C++,<br \/>\nPerl and a plethora of Python in the mix. He can type faster than<br \/>\nmost people can talk, is a Linux Lunacy Cruise alumnae, a liberty<br \/>\nminded friend of the EFF and a seriously committed GNU Linux zealot<br \/>\nsince 1996.<\/p>\n<p>=============<br \/>\nWe will be meeting at Emory Law School in our<br \/>\nusual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.<br \/>\nMeeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm<br \/>\nDirections to Emory Law School can be found<br \/>\nvia the side bar link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The feature presentation at the ALE Central Meeting at 7:30pm on Thursday, May 21st, will be: &#8220;The Wonderful Widgets of Wx, Python Style&#8221; as presented by the often distracted but always erudite Charles Shapiro Synopsis: &#8212; Follow our intrepid coder into the dark thickets of cross-platform GUI programming as we explore the exciting world of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ale-central","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}