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Posted by: Greg Turnquist on 12/01/2008

Day 0
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Well, I'm happy to report I got in last night and was able to meet up with a handful of people. Russ texted me to join them at the bar. After getting settled in the nice Westin Diplomat, I managed to find him along with a few others, despite my phone not having international support. Since the conference doesn't start until Monday evening, I call this Day 0. Russ and I made followup plans. Previously, we were scheduled to speak in parallel during the same time slot, but that now we are scheduled serially. That is definitely a relief. Russ is giving his presentation on Spring Extensions before my Introduction to Spring Python, and there is some possibility of me providing a little "live" feedback during his presentation. We need to hammer out what that is exactly.

I spent time getting my laptop together this past weekend before traveling down here so that I can give a demo of PetClinic. I wanted to be sure I had a copy of the trunk checked out with the handful of Spring Python's dependencies installed so I could run the regression test suite as well as PetClinic. It is all working, and now I can comfortably make this blog entry from my hotel room. Stay tuned!

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About Greg Turnquist

Greg has worked for 11 years as a software engineer at Harris Corporation, always seeking the right tool for the job. Since 2002, Greg has been part of the senior software team working on Harris' $3.5 billion FAA telco program, architecting mission critical enterprise apps while managing a software team. He provides after hours support and 2nd level engineering and is no stranger to midnight failures and software triage.

Being a test-bitten script junky, Greg has used JUnit, TestNG, JMock, FEST, PyUnit, and pMock testing frameworks, along with other agile practices to produce top quality code.

He has worked with Java/Spring/Acegi Security/@AspectJ/Jython technologies, UNIX/Linux/Solaris platforms, and python/jython/bash/csh/expect scripting. Being a wiki evangelist, he also deployed a LAMP-based wiki web site to provide finger tip knowledge to users.

In 2006, Greg created the Spring Python project. The Spring Framework provided many useful features, and he wanted those same features available when working with Python.

Greg completed a master's degree in Computer Engineering at Auburn University in 1997, and lives in Melbourne, FL with his family.

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