[Baypiggies] Talk @ Baypiggies in Feb?

[jim]

let's do it. 


On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 11:26 -0800, Pete wrote:
> On Jan 17, 2009, at 6:24 PM, Shannon -jj Behrens wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Pete <pfein at pobox.com> wrote:
> >> Hiya-
> >>
> >> I was wondering if I could give a talk at next month's meeting.   
> >> It'd be on
> >> my Factory module: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Factory/
> >>
> >> I gave this talk at Chipy a few months ago, and it was very well  
> >> received.
> >> It's about 1/2 hour long.
> >>
> >> Lemme know.
> >
> > I'm cc'ing the rest of BayPiggies:
> >
> > Your description sounded interesting to me.  Jim and Tony organize the
> > speakers, and they usually try to line up people a few months in
> > advance.  I'm not sure exactly when they have a slot for you, but you
> 
> I'm only going to be here through late March... given the change to  
> the 4th Thursday, I'd need to do this next month (February) or not at  
> all.
> 
> > have a +1 from me.  You might want to describe it a little more so
> > that the other people on the mailing list can get excited and give you
> > a +1 as well ;)
> 
> Here's an abstract:
> 
> ----------------------------------------
> Factory is an object-oriented approach to partial function  
> application, also known as currying.
> 
> Python 2.5 added support for currying with the addition of  
> functools.partial: http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.5.html#pep-309-partial-function-application
> 
> The Factory module is a more powerful implementation of this pattern.  
> Some improvements include:
>    - safer, as invalid arguments are detected immediately, instead of  
> at call time
>    - intelligent support for classes, instance methods & all other  
> callables
>    - bound arguments can be inspected and modified as attributes
>    - several convenient methods for (re)binding arguments
> 
> Using Factories can:
>    - simplify writing callbacks
>    - reduce bugs in concurrent applications
>    - provide easy lazy evaluation
> 
> This talk will demonstrate the Factory module and discuss its  
> implementation and uses.  Familiarity with currying is helpful but not  
> required.  More information is available at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Factory/
> -----------------------------------------
> 
> The talk itself consists mainly of a live demo of the module, followed  
> by a brief review of its implementation.  It falls more on the side of  
> "cool things you can do that are unique to Python", in contrast to the  
> more typical "how to parse TPS reports in Python (or Perl or Java  
> or ...)" .  As such, it's a good insight in to the power of Python for  
> programmers new to the language, while providing plenty to keep old  
> hands entertained. I presented this talk to the Chicago group in  
> September and it was very well received, with one audience member even  
> suggesting the module should be included in the standard library.
> 
> > Thanks for volunteering!
> 
> Sure.  $DIETY knows, I like to talk. ;-)
> 
> --Pete
>