[portland] Moving to Portland Area

[Jason Champion]

Hi David,

As someone with 8+ years of experience with wx and 2+ with Qt (in both 
Python and C++), I would strongly recommend looking at Qt over wx. 
wxPython/wxWidgets is not as robust, consistent, or well-maintained as 
Qt and has a lot of cross-platform inconsistencies that become 
incredibly frustrating whenever you want to build anything complex or 
heavily customized. The OSX and mobile support is also somewhat lacking.

That said, if you ever need any assistance with wx I can probably help out.

"Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt" by Mark Summerfield is a 
great book and well worth the (investment|libraryvisit).

Since you asked about meetings/presentations, you probably don't know 
about the meetup group.  It's the best place to watch for those:
http://www.meetup.com/pdxpython/

Cheers,
Jason

On 08/09/2013 09:20 PM, David Chandler wrote:
> I have been on the mailing list for awhile (from Central California) but am
> looking forward to moving to Portland area and actually talking to
> Python-literate people face-to-face.  (When it comes to programming of any
> kind it's a wasteland down here!)  Please let me know when you have
> meetings/meetups/
> presentations/whatever.
>
> I have done a number of projects in Python, but so much gap in between that
> I'm constantly having to review the basics.  My immediate goal is learning
> to do GUIs ... trending toward WX at the moment.  I have quite a bit of
> programming experience but from days gone by (in the DOS era:  Borland
> Pascal).
>
> --David Chandler
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