From michelle at pdxpython.org Mon Oct 12 23:30:22 2009 From: michelle at pdxpython.org (michelle rowley) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:30:22 -0700 Subject: [portland] PDX Python tomorrow night! 6:30PM @ Webtrends Message-ID: <813046e40910121430t731636fyee589f9081a4e41@mail.gmail.com> Hey Portland Pythoneers, The second Tuesday has rolled around again! Tomorrow at 6:30pm John Hampton will be giving us an introduction to Bitten (http://bitten.edgewall.org/), a Python framework for collecting metrics that builds on the Trac we all know (and many of us love :)). Adam Lowry has also claimed Michel's Monthly Module for this month, which will be a hashlib&hmac combo presentation. Following the meeting, we'll head out to grab a pint together and discuss all things Pythonic. I hope we'll see you there! Michelle 6:30PM @ Webtrends 851 SW 6th Ave. Suite 1600 Portland, OR 97204 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dan at mobileorchard.com Tue Oct 13 18:43:31 2009 From: dan at mobileorchard.com (Dan Grigsby) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:43:31 -0500 Subject: [portland] [OT] Python-to-iPhone class Message-ID: <52E74E2F-6B3A-4AC6-8445-5B76F71CC259@mobileorchard.com> Hi, It's Dan Grigsby of the iPhone dev community site Mobile Orchard. This is an off-topic post, but I'm hoping my Minneapolis dev community/ python credentials are transferable to Portland. Anyway: I'll be teaching the Mobile Orchard Beginning iPhone Programming Workshop in Portland on November 13-13. Class synopsis: Python programmer (or PHP, Ruby, Java or .NET) to iPhone programmer in two days. Intensive two day class. Leave with seven compact, but complete iPhone apps that use Core Location, Core Data, navigation UIs, shake, undo/redo, web services (actually, JSON from a Python App Engine app) and hybrid web/native UIs. Memory management, properties, protocols and categories exercises. 3.0SDK. Small class size, experienced instructor. From Mobile Orchard, the #1 iPhone developer news site and podcast. Details/registration: http://mobileorchard.com/training I'm part of Minneapolis' "PyMnTos" Python group. And I run, help run, or used to run or help-run the Minneapolis BarCamp, DemoCamp, Ruby group and StartupCamp. I'm hugely fond of local community groups, and when I get folks active in these groups at the classes they're invariable the kind that I like. So I'm happy to knock a couple of hundred bucks off the price; use the "python" discount code. With the discount code and early bird price the cost is $799, down from the usual $1200. Hoping my good-standing and contributions to the dev, iPhone, and startup communities offsets any feather-ruffling that me pitching the class to the list might elicit. In addition to keeping my kids in new shoes and fruit snacks, the class generates the income that enables work on the site and podcast full-time. Thanks, Dan dan at mobileorchard.com 612 423 3694 From list at phaedrusdeinus.org Tue Oct 13 22:45:33 2009 From: list at phaedrusdeinus.org (John Melesky) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:45:33 -0700 Subject: [portland] We're hiring: Python Web Application Developer Message-ID: <54CE2438-6651-429E-9152-9EA36962EC2D@phaedrusdeinus.org> The company i work for (Juju, Inc) is hiring. It's a completely distributed office, so we're looking for someone who can work very independently. I'll be at the meeting tonight, and would be happy to answer questions there, or by email (john at phaedrusdeinus.org). Applications go to work at juju.com . Job description follows. -johnnnnnnn **Job Description**: Juju, a popular vertical search engine focused on jobs, seeks skilled **Python Web Application Developer** for fun and profit. Juju's goal is to make job search easier using technology and thoughtful user interface design. We strive to create groundbreaking tools that make it faster and easier for online job seekers to find exactly what they?re looking for. Our job search engine provides a single point of access to millions of jobs found on thousands of employer websites and job boards around the web, and offers features that help job seekers screen and apply to the right opportunities more efficiently. Our work to date has enabled us to attract millions of unique visitors every month, and laid a solid foundation for the future. The best is yet to come - we need talented, creative programmers to help us meet our ambitious goals. If you: - have deep python experience - want to work with bright, motivated people - enjoy tackling BIG problems with clever code send us an application or drop us a note. If you don?t have all of the skills below, but think you?re a great fit, apply anyway and tell us why. Employees are given substantial freedom to design and implement solutions, and allocate their own time. We telecommute and maintain a demanding, but flexible, work environment. The team is US based, but we will consider applicants living in Canada. Project and part-time arrangements are possible. Candidates should be experienced, well-rounded programmers, familiar with a range of practices, including maintaining a shared code base, object-oriented design, and unit testing. The ability to communicate effectively with coworkers while working independently with limited oversight is essential. **Desired Interest/Experience**: - Building interactive web apps - Complex reporting and charting - Creating and consuming RESTful APIs - User interface design - Web crawling techniques - Data analysis **Desired Technical Background**: - Python, Python, Python! (for deployment on Linux/Un*x) - HTML, CSS, Javascript, JSON, XML - Source control: Subversion, Mercurial, Trac - SQL (including MySQL, SQLite) - Lucene/Solr - CherryPy or other web frameworks **Bonus Points For**: - Twisted - Amazon Web Services - protocol-level HTTP (ever write your own HTTP client or server? Let us know!) - Text search - Machine learning (especially information extraction and text analysis) - Auction systems From kim at arlim.org Thu Oct 15 00:55:31 2009 From: kim at arlim.org (Kimberly Wallmark) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:55:31 -0700 Subject: [portland] agile user group information Message-ID: Here's some more information on the agile development user group that I mentioned last night. If you're interested in agile development, stop on by! - We meet every month on the evening of the third Wednesday. This meeting is sometimes a discussion, sometimes an activity, and sometimes a talk by an invited speaker. We have a less formal lunch every first Friday, from 1 until people get bored at the McMenamin's at NE 15th and Broadway. The evening session moves around as we try out locations, but it's generally close in on the East Side. - We are open to all agile methodologies and all levels of experience, from guru to curious non-practioner and everyone in-between. If you've read this email, you meet the minimum experience requirements to attend. :) - There's a mailing list at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/xpportland/ . Meetings and their locations are announced there, as well as other information that might prove useful. - Our October meeting will be ?Unit Test Your Database?, by David Wheeler. In this talk, he?ll discuss techniques for unit testing all aspects of your database, from logical design and schema to stored procs. It will be held at the PSBA, south of downtown, followed by beer at the McCormick and Schmick's on the Waterfront. The PSBA can be hard to find, so use http://www.psba.pdx.edu/drivingdirections instead of your GPS. (Trimet's trip planner is accurate, though.) See you there! --Kim From dan at mobileorchard.com Tue Oct 20 04:26:20 2009 From: dan at mobileorchard.com (Dan Grigsby) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:26:20 -0500 Subject: [portland] [OT] Python-to-iPhone class In-Reply-To: <52E74E2F-6B3A-4AC6-8445-5B76F71CC259@mobileorchard.com> References: <52E74E2F-6B3A-4AC6-8445-5B76F71CC259@mobileorchard.com> Message-ID: <5CA12C27-EAAF-44EE-B79A-8BFBF65A0392@mobileorchard.com> FYI: if you planning on attending my Beginning iPhone Programming class the last day to register with the early registration discount is Friday. In Seattle and SF, the last two places I held the class, it filled up on the last "early bird" day. It's $799 (down from $1200) if you get the early registration price and use the "python" discount code. On Oct 13, 2009, at 11:43 AM, Dan Grigsby wrote: > Hi, > > It's Dan Grigsby of the iPhone dev community site Mobile Orchard. > This is an off-topic post, but I'm hoping my Minneapolis dev > community/python credentials are transferable to Portland. Anyway: > > I'll be teaching the Mobile Orchard Beginning iPhone Programming > Workshop in Portland on November 13-13. Class synopsis: Python > programmer (or PHP, Ruby, Java or .NET) to iPhone programmer in two > days. > > Intensive two day class. Leave with seven compact, but complete > iPhone apps that use Core Location, Core Data, navigation UIs, > shake, undo/redo, web services (actually, JSON from a Python App > Engine app) and hybrid web/native UIs. Memory management, > properties, protocols and categories exercises. 3.0SDK. Small > class size, experienced instructor. From Mobile Orchard, the #1 > iPhone developer news site and podcast. > > Details/registration: > http://mobileorchard.com/training > > I'm part of Minneapolis' "PyMnTos" Python group. And I run, help > run, or used to run or help-run the Minneapolis BarCamp, DemoCamp, > Ruby group and StartupCamp. I'm hugely fond of local community > groups, and when I get folks active in these groups at the classes > they're invariable the kind that I like. So I'm happy to knock a > couple of hundred bucks off the price; use the "python" discount > code. With the discount code and early bird price the cost is $799, > down from the usual $1200. > > Hoping my good-standing and contributions to the dev, iPhone, and > startup communities offsets any feather-ruffling that me pitching > the class to the list might elicit. In addition to keeping my kids > in new shoes and fruit snacks, the class generates the income that > enables work on the site and podcast full-time. > > Thanks, > > Dan > dan at mobileorchard.com > 612 423 3694 > _______________________________________________ > Portland mailing list > Portland at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland From kirby.urner at gmail.com Fri Oct 30 04:31:47 2009 From: kirby.urner at gmail.com (kirby urner) Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:31:47 -0700 Subject: [portland] radar blips... Message-ID: I suppose most of you've already learned that OSCON is coming back to Portland in 2010. OS Bridge is still fixing to happen as well. You can join the planning list here: http://opensourcebridge.org/ Also new @ Python.org http://wiki.python.org/moin/DiversityInPython http://wiki.python.org/moin/Languages/ Kirby From jd at commandprompt.com Fri Oct 30 17:32:00 2009 From: jd at commandprompt.com (Joshua D. Drake) Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:32:00 -0700 Subject: [portland] radar blips... In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1256920320.27016.1.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com> On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 20:31 -0700, kirby urner wrote: > I suppose most of you've already learned that > OSCON is coming back to Portland in 2010. Interesting. No I hadn't heard that. > > OS Bridge is still fixing to happen as well. > You can join the planning list here: > http://opensourcebridge.org/ > During the same time frame? Ouch. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering If the world pushes look it in the eye and GRR. Then push back harder. - Salamander From webb.sprague at gmail.com Fri Oct 30 17:56:40 2009 From: webb.sprague at gmail.com (Webb Sprague) Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:56:40 -0700 Subject: [portland] radar blips... In-Reply-To: <1256920320.27016.1.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com> References: <1256920320.27016.1.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com> Message-ID: > During the same time frame? Ouch. Perhaps an outlaw conference either right before or after would be cool? From jd at commandprompt.com Fri Oct 30 18:03:33 2009 From: jd at commandprompt.com (Joshua D. Drake) Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:03:33 -0700 Subject: [portland] radar blips... In-Reply-To: References: <1256920320.27016.1.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com> Message-ID: <1256922213.27016.4.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com> On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 09:56 -0700, Webb Sprague wrote: > > During the same time frame? Ouch. > > Perhaps an outlaw conference either right before or after would be cool? Well as I recall they are different types of conferences. You wouldn't find a Yoga session at OSCON. I main concern would be attracting the class of speaker that Open Source Bridge is hoping to attract when it is so close to OSCON. Shrug. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering If the world pushes look it in the eye and GRR. Then push back harder. - Salamander