From brianhray at gmail.com Tue Jan 8 23:54:34 2013 From: brianhray at gmail.com (Brian Ray) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 16:54:34 -0600 Subject: [ChiPy-announce] [ANN] January ChiPy Meeting Message-ID: When: Thursday January 10th 2013 7 p.m. Where: Nerdery 300 N Elizabeth St, Suite 500C, Chicago, IL 60607, in the building with the large "Chicago Bancorp" marquee on the top. Getting There: Via the el, Nerdery, are pretty much right in the middle between the Morgan and Ashland stops on the Pink/Green line. The closest bus lines are the 65 (Grand) and the 9 (Ashland). Driving is fairly easy as well, though there is really only street parking available, though at 7PM, there should be enough spots along the street. Google maps would give the best directions for driving. Meeting Ranking: Best EVER! RSVP: http://chipy.org Topics: 1) Genie By: Tal Liron Tal will talk on Python inspired Genie. He will use his Gamelauncher example http://code.google.com/p/gamelauncher/ as an example. He will detail some reasons to use Genie: 1) If Python isn't fast enough for your needs, you can optimize bottlenecks by "dropping" to Genie and then elegantly call that code from Python. Avoid paradigm switching. 2) Need to run Python on your embedded toaster? Genie compiles to standard ANSI C and is as portable as anything. 3) If you're writing a Python library, but want to allow it to be used from many other languages (Ruby, JS, C++, etc.) then Genie might be better. 4) If you're not actually using much of the Python standard libraries or ecosystem, there are many advantages in writing your application from scratch in Genie. This is actually what I'm working on right now. 2) Intro to Marmir: Spreadsheets on steroids By: Brian Ray Marmir (https://github.com/brianray/mm) takes Python data structures and turns them into spreadsheets (think xlwt on steroids). This is a high level Intro to the project, current status, goals, and to solicit any contributions. This talk will look into how Marmir internals do things like: measure fonts to fit columns, preserve data types (dates, numbers), allow advanced look and feel customization of spreadsheets. Later down the road, I would like to have a separate talk on Marmir internals and how it may be customized to do things like, convert Django model data directly to spreadsheets, integrate with google spreadsheets. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at personnelware.com Thu Jan 10 07:54:28 2013 From: carl at personnelware.com (Carl Karsten) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:54:28 -0600 Subject: [ChiPy-announce] no data for videos Message-ID: What magic do I need to preform to get someone to figure out how to enter talk data so that I can produce the videos? -- Carl K