From cappy2112 at gmail.com Wed Sep 1 04:46:51 2010 From: cappy2112 at gmail.com (Tony Cappellini) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:46:51 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] Beginning Python Visualization: Crafting Visual Transformation Scripts Message-ID: Have any of you read this book? http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Python-Visualization-Transformation-Professionals/dp/1430218436 I'd like to get some feedback on it. Thanks From wescpy at gmail.com Wed Sep 1 09:41:50 2010 From: wescpy at gmail.com (wesley chun) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 00:41:50 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] Graham Dumpleton visit In-Reply-To: <4C7C1B1D.6030101@gmail.com> References: <9AE59768-0AE8-4FFD-BB85-DE42F508AD28@energy-solution.com> <4C7C1B1D.6030101@gmail.com> Message-ID: hmmm, i was at PyCon in Singapore back in June but didn't get to meet him(!). anyway, if we were to do it in SF, we should coordinate with and perhaps hold a joint meeting with the SF Python Meetup http://meetup.com/sfpython ... they haven't had a meeting since June are probably due for one. they may even have a venue as it rotates amongst startups in the city. -- wesley - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Core Python Programming", Prentice Hall, (c)2007,2001 "Python Fundamentals", Prentice Hall, (c)2009 ? ? http://corepython.com wesley.j.chun :: wescpy-at-gmail.com python training and technical consulting cyberweb.consulting : silicon valley, ca http://cyberwebconsulting.com From jim at systemateka.com Wed Sep 1 14:16:09 2010 From: jim at systemateka.com (jim) Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:16:09 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] Graham Dumpleton visit In-Reply-To: References: <9AE59768-0AE8-4FFD-BB85-DE42F508AD28@energy-solution.com> <4C7C1B1D.6030101@gmail.com> Message-ID: <1283343369.2155.1.camel@jim-laptop> And there's the pyweb-sf and pygame-sf and py4science groups (sf, sf, berkeley). On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 00:41 -0700, wesley chun wrote: > hmmm, i was at PyCon in Singapore back in June but didn't get to meet > him(!). anyway, if we were to do it in SF, we should coordinate with > and perhaps hold a joint meeting with the SF Python Meetup > http://meetup.com/sfpython ... they haven't had a meeting since June > are probably due for one. they may even have a venue as it rotates > amongst startups in the city. > > -- wesley > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > "Core Python Programming", Prentice Hall, (c)2007,2001 > "Python Fundamentals", Prentice Hall, (c)2009 > http://corepython.com > > wesley.j.chun :: wescpy-at-gmail.com > python training and technical consulting > cyberweb.consulting : silicon valley, ca > http://cyberwebconsulting.com > _______________________________________________ > Baypiggies mailing list > Baypiggies at python.org > To change your subscription options or unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/baypiggies From mparker at energy-solution.com Fri Sep 3 02:11:26 2010 From: mparker at energy-solution.com (Marla Parker) Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 00:11:26 +0000 Subject: [Baypiggies] Graham Dumpleton visit In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <69AE6115-05B3-4964-A269-A78D70BFE85F@energy-solution.com> OK, here is an update on Graham Dumpleton's talk. Friday, October 8 is confirmed with Graham. I suggest 7:30 in SF for the time, and the alternative venue that I had in mind is not open after 5pm so I think we should use the location that Jim suggested, Noisebridge. If someone wants to provide a different (free) space that is also close to BART, please let me know asap. I am going to try to schedule a meeting for Graham with Energy Solutions late in the afternoon on Friday (either in Oakland or SF), then dinner around 5:30 or 6, then get to Noisebridge (or wherever we settle on for the talk) by 7 so he can set up his slides, then the talk at 7:30, Q&A 8:30, done 9pm. Marla From wescpy at gmail.com Fri Sep 3 08:39:00 2010 From: wescpy at gmail.com (wesley chun) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 23:39:00 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] Graham Dumpleton visit In-Reply-To: <69AE6115-05B3-4964-A269-A78D70BFE85F@energy-solution.com> References: <69AE6115-05B3-4964-A269-A78D70BFE85F@energy-solution.com> Message-ID: i'm sure people are open to meeting Graham in SF on 10/8, however, keep in mind that both the Silicon Valley CodeCamp http://siliconvalley-codecamp.com as well as THATcamp http://thatcampbayarea.org are both occurring starting the next day, running Sat-Sun 10/9-10. this may mean losing a little bit of audience possibly. if noisebridge works and is available, great! otherwise, it may be worthwhile to check with some of the other groups mentioned as they may have space as well. cheers, -wesley On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Marla Parker wrote: > > OK, here is an update on Graham Dumpleton's talk. > > Friday, October 8 is confirmed with Graham. > > I suggest 7:30 in SF for the time, and the alternative venue that I had in mind is not open after 5pm so I think we should use the location that Jim suggested, Noisebridge. ?If someone wants to provide a different (free) space that is also close to BART, please let me know asap. > > I am going to try to schedule a meeting for Graham with Energy Solutions late in the afternoon on Friday (either in Oakland or SF), then dinner around 5:30 or 6, then get to Noisebridge (or wherever we settle on for the talk) by 7 so he can set up his slides, then the talk at 7:30, Q&A 8:30, done 9pm. > > Marla > > _______________________________________________ > Baypiggies mailing list > Baypiggies at python.org > To change your subscription options or unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/baypiggies > -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Core Python Programming", Prentice Hall, (c)2007,2001 "Python Fundamentals", Prentice Hall, (c)2009 ? ? http://corepython.com "Python Web Development with Django", Addison Wesley, (c) 2009 ? ? http://withdjango.com wesley.j.chun :: wescpy-at-gmail.com python training and technical consulting cyberweb.consulting : silicon valley, ca http://cyberwebconsulting.com From jimmy at retzlaff.com Fri Sep 3 21:44:02 2010 From: jimmy at retzlaff.com (Jimmy Retzlaff) Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 12:44:02 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] Graham Dumpleton visit In-Reply-To: References: <69AE6115-05B3-4964-A269-A78D70BFE85F@energy-solution.com> Message-ID: Yelp (my soon to be employer and big Python users) would love to host this. They are at 3rd an Mission in San Francisco, about 2 blocks from the Montgomery Street Station (BART and Muni Metro). They can accommodate 60 people pretty comfortably. 10/8 works for them and other dates may work too. Jimmy On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:39 PM, wesley chun wrote: > i'm sure people are open to meeting Graham in SF on 10/8, however, > keep in mind that both the Silicon Valley CodeCamp > http://siliconvalley-codecamp.com as well as THATcamp > http://thatcampbayarea.org are both occurring starting the next day, > running Sat-Sun 10/9-10. this may mean losing a little bit of audience > possibly. > > if noisebridge works and is available, great! otherwise, it may be > worthwhile to check with some of the other groups mentioned as they > may have space as well. > > cheers, > -wesley > > > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Marla Parker > wrote: >> >> OK, here is an update on Graham Dumpleton's talk. >> >> Friday, October 8 is confirmed with Graham. >> >> I suggest 7:30 in SF for the time, and the alternative venue that I had in mind is not open after 5pm so I think we should use the location that Jim suggested, Noisebridge. ?If someone wants to provide a different (free) space that is also close to BART, please let me know asap. >> >> I am going to try to schedule a meeting for Graham with Energy Solutions late in the afternoon on Friday (either in Oakland or SF), then dinner around 5:30 or 6, then get to Noisebridge (or wherever we settle on for the talk) by 7 so he can set up his slides, then the talk at 7:30, Q&A 8:30, done 9pm. >> >> Marla >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Baypiggies mailing list >> Baypiggies at python.org >> To change your subscription options or unsubscribe: >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/baypiggies >> > > > > -- > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > "Core Python Programming", Prentice Hall, (c)2007,2001 > "Python Fundamentals", Prentice Hall, (c)2009 > ? ? http://corepython.com > > "Python Web Development with Django", Addison Wesley, (c) 2009 > ? ? http://withdjango.com > > wesley.j.chun :: wescpy-at-gmail.com > python training and technical consulting > cyberweb.consulting : silicon valley, ca > http://cyberwebconsulting.com > _______________________________________________ > Baypiggies mailing list > Baypiggies at python.org > To change your subscription options or unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/baypiggies > From alexandre.conrad at gmail.com Sat Sep 4 04:16:29 2010 From: alexandre.conrad at gmail.com (Alexandre Conrad) Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 19:16:29 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] Meetings at SurveyMonkey Message-ID: Hi list, Just a quick note: as some of you may know, I just moved to Silicon Valley from Paris France. I had the chance to meet a few of you at the last BayPIGgies meeting. I want to mention that I just got a job at SurveyMonkey - I started this week - and as we are heavy Python users, we are willing to host BayPIGgies meetings, and maybe even sponsor with free food for everyone! SurveyMonkey is on Hamilton Avenue, downtown Palo Alto. It's a 5 minutes walk from Palo Alto Caltrain station and we have a nice place. I think this would be a great to host BayPIGgies once in a while. If you are interested, let me know, I will see what I can arrange for us. Best, -- Alex | twitter.com/alexconrad From keith at dartworks.biz Sat Sep 4 04:31:51 2010 From: keith at dartworks.biz (Keith Dart) Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 19:31:51 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] Meetings at SurveyMonkey In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20100903193151.75ba517f@dartworks.biz> === On Fri, 09/03, Alexandre Conrad wrote: === > If you are interested, let me know, I > will see what I can arrange for us. === http://bit.ly/cJM4U2 :-) -- Keith Dart -- -- ------------------------------ Keith Dart ================================= From aahz at pythoncraft.com Sat Sep 4 14:22:16 2010 From: aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 05:22:16 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] Meetings at SurveyMonkey In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20100904122215.GA17504@panix.com> On Fri, Sep 03, 2010, Alexandre Conrad wrote: > > Just a quick note: as some of you may know, I just moved to Silicon > Valley from Paris France. I had the chance to meet a few of you at the > last BayPIGgies meeting. I want to mention that I just got a job at > SurveyMonkey - I started this week - and as we are heavy Python users, > we are willing to host BayPIGgies meetings, and maybe even sponsor > with free food for everyone! SurveyMonkey is on Hamilton Avenue, > downtown Palo Alto. It's a 5 minutes walk from Palo Alto Caltrain > station and we have a nice place. I think this would be a great to > host BayPIGgies once in a while. If you are interested, let me know, I > will see what I can arrange for us. Thanks! I don't really have an opinion myself, but in the past there has been pushback on using multiple meeting locations because of the confusion about where each meeting will be. Also, although it would be nice for public transit to be an option, downtown Palo Alto is mildly car-unfriendly. On the whole, I probably would be slightly more likely to attend a meeting there. Can you tell us a bit more about the facility? How many people can you comfortably handle? -- Aahz (aahz at pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "...if I were on life-support, I'd rather have it run by a Gameboy than a Windows box." --Cliff Wells From jjinux at gmail.com Sat Sep 4 22:42:17 2010 From: jjinux at gmail.com (Shannon -jj Behrens) Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 13:42:17 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] Meetings at SurveyMonkey In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: That's great ;) On Sep 3, 2010 7:16 PM, "Alexandre Conrad" wrote: Hi list, Just a quick note: as some of you may know, I just moved to Silicon Valley from Paris France. I had the chance to meet a few of you at the last BayPIGgies meeting. I want to mention that I just got a job at SurveyMonkey - I started this week - and as we are heavy Python users, we are willing to host BayPIGgies meetings, and maybe even sponsor with free food for everyone! SurveyMonkey is on Hamilton Avenue, downtown Palo Alto. It's a 5 minutes walk from Palo Alto Caltrain station and we have a nice place. I think this would be a great to host BayPIGgies once in a while. If you are interested, let me know, I will see what I can arrange for us. Best, -- Alex | twitter.com/alexconrad _______________________________________________ Baypiggies mailing list Baypiggies at python.org To change your subscription options or unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/baypiggies -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alexandre.conrad at gmail.com Tue Sep 7 06:56:12 2010 From: alexandre.conrad at gmail.com (Alexandre Conrad) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 21:56:12 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] Meetings at SurveyMonkey In-Reply-To: <20100904122215.GA17504@panix.com> References: <20100904122215.GA17504@panix.com> Message-ID: 2010/9/4 Aahz : > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010, Alexandre Conrad wrote: >> station and we have a nice place. I think this would be a great to >> host BayPIGgies once in a while. If you are interested, let me know, I >> will see what I can arrange for us. > > Thanks! ?I don't really have an opinion myself, but in the past there > has been pushback on using multiple meeting locations because of the > confusion about where each meeting will be. Well, if it is clearly shown with the announcement and on the web page, I guess it should be okay. > Also, although it would be nice for public transit to be an option, > downtown Palo Alto is mildly car-unfriendly. ?On the whole, I probably > would be slightly more likely to attend a meeting there. I am not yet very familiar with parkings, but there is a large, multi-level, underground parking right in front of our office block. And I am pretty sure that the parking is free after 5pm (and I think it's also free if you park on the lower levels, the first 2 levels are limited to 2 hours parking during the day). http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=fr&q=parking&sll=37.444847,-122.158849&sspn=0.004591,0.009645&ie=UTF8&split=1&rq=1&ev=p&radius=0.32&hq=parking&hnear=&ll=37.444744,-122.159783&spn=0.004625,0.009645&z=17&layer=c&cbll=37.444801,-122.159875&panoid=3fBFnvmZDS879OSZNYlSgg&cbp=12,215.54,,0,10.85 > Can you tell us a bit more about the facility? ?How many people can you > comfortably handle? I don't know exactly. Probably around 30-40, maybe up to 50. But if the idea is accepted, I can talk more about it with SurveyMonkey and get into the details of the logistics. -- Alex | twitter.com/alexconrad From gracelaw at mac.com Fri Sep 17 23:15:41 2010 From: gracelaw at mac.com (Grace Law) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:15:41 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] Can you help develop and scale very high traffic web servers at Lolapps? Message-ID: Hi there, Want to work with a group of smart, fun people and LOL at the office? We are a 2 year old, cash flow positive social gaming / Facebook App company. We have about 40 people now and plan to get to 60-70 in the next 6 to 12 months. We are a big Python/Pylons shop building high quality Flash games. You can find out how we scaled from 0 to 50 million users from this video at the last PyCon. http://us.pycon.org/2010/conference/schedule/event/135/ :) We're looking for a seasoned performance engineer to do more of that. More details here: Python Server/Scalability Engineer You know the thrill and the terror of an unexpected traffic storm that's railed your application. You think on your feet, adapt and make a genius patch that let's your servers hold to see out the storm, then hit the whiteboard to start architecting a solution that will handle the next storm with ease. Ideally, you: * Love python and can code it in your sleep. * Working knowledge of Linux, scripting, and SQL. * Understand when MySQL is great and experiment with NoSQL solutions (Memcached/Mongo/Redis/Cassandra) * Know how to put together a web-application stack. (We use Pylons/ Paste.) * Enjoy bouncing ideas of your teammates to build up solutions no one person could of thought up by themselves. * Care about your implementations and find yourself compulsively checking that your latest experimental deploy is working the way you thought it would. 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Cheers, Aaron -- Aaron Maxwell http://redsymbol.net/ From jim at systemateka.com Sun Sep 19 07:10:14 2010 From: jim at systemateka.com (jim) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 22:10:14 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] BayPIGgies meeting Thursday, September 23, 2010: Powerful Python Patterns Message-ID: <1284873014.2514.6.camel@jim-laptop> BayPIGgies meeting Thursday, September 23, 2010: Powerful Python Patterns This meeting's talk is Powerful Python Patterns by Alex Martelli Patterns exist (and can fruitfully be studied and applied) in any field of human endeavor, including _of course_ Python, whatever a currently-going-around, misguided meme claims to the contrary. Tonight's talk summarizes of what Patterns are about, Design Patterns in particular, how they identify and describe categories of solutions to categories of problems, and how they're useful for teaching and communication as well as for guiding the design process. As examples of specifically ?Pythonic? patterns, tonight's talk reminds the audience of the variants of Template Method that fit Python so perfectly and of why Dependency Injection is also so perfectly Pythonic. After mentioning other kinds (i.e., non-design) patterns and ?idioms?, the talk closes by showing how patterns work best when weaved into a whole Language of patterns, both hierarchically among different ?scales?, and ?peer to peer? among patterns on the same ?scale?. Alex Martelli wrote ?Python in a Nutshell? and co-edited ?Python Cookbook?. He?s a PSF member and won the 2002 Activators? Choice Award and the 2006 Frank Willison Award for contributions to the Python community. He works as Senior Staff Engineer for Google. His detailed profile is at http://www.google.com/profiles/aleaxit . ......................................... Meetings usually start with a Newbie Nugget, a short discussion of an essential Python feature, especially for those new to Python. Tonight's Newbie Nugget: none. LOCATION Symantec Corporation Symantec Vcafe 350 Ellis Street Mountain View, CA 94043 http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&ei=w6i_Sfr6MZmQsQOzlv0v&hl=en&t=h&msa=0&msid=116202735295394761637.00046550c09ff3d96bff1&ll=37.397693,-122.053707&spn=0.002902,0.004828&z=18 BayPIGgies meeting information is available at http://www.baypiggies.net/ ------------------------ Agenda ------------------------ ..... 7:30 PM ........................... General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, any first-minute announcements. ..... 7:35 PM to 7:35 PM ................ Tonight's Newbie Nugget: none. ..... 7:35 PM to 8:40 PM (or so) ................ The talk: Powerful Python Patterns by Alex Martelli ..... 8:40 PM to 9:30 PM ................ Mapping and Random Access Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of issues, hiring, events, and other topics. Random Access follows people immediately to allow follow up on the announcements and other interests. From cappy2112 at gmail.com Tue Sep 21 04:50:07 2010 From: cappy2112 at gmail.com (Tony Cappellini) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:50:07 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] Looking for a volunteer to review Metaprogramming Ruby Message-ID: Hello Everyone, If you're interested in reading/reviewing this book http://www.pragprog.com/titles/ppmetr/metaprogramming-ruby please contact me off-list. Thanks From grantbow at gmail.com Tue Sep 21 19:59:10 2010 From: grantbow at gmail.com (Grant Bowman) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:59:10 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] South African Python Education for High Schools In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Here is a tweet from Guido Van Rossum with a web page excerpt. RT @gvanrossum: CP4E in South Africa: http://www.umonya.co.za/ About Project Umonya Project Umonya aims to promote CS and programming t South African learners However its not ALL "boring" lectures. There's lots their own learning afterwards Project Umonya is coming to a city near you, so if you're High School student interested it making it in this excitin field, be sure to check here for course details comin soon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From liyiou at gmail.com Wed Sep 22 07:10:12 2010 From: liyiou at gmail.com (Yiou Li) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:10:12 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] New python installation can't overwrite the system python. Message-ID: Hi all, I installed a Python2.7 on my home directory in a Redhat Linux system. Then I tried to get rid of the system default path to python at '/usr/bin' --- I did this by set PATH="" in my .cshrc script. After I did a fresh system login, I find that my $PATH is set to empty. However, when I type "which python", I still get the old path "/usr/bin/python". I also tried set the evironment variable "set PYTHONPATH=/my_python_directory" in .cshrc and refresh my login, but the python command still refers to "/usr/bin/python". I just want to *overwrite* the system build-in python with my own installation, could anybody tell me how can I do that? Many thanks! Leo From bdbaddog at gmail.com Wed Sep 22 07:13:03 2010 From: bdbaddog at gmail.com (William Deegan) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:13:03 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] New python installation can't overwrite the system python. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Leo, Why not just export PATH=PATH_TO_YOUR_PYTHON:$PATH ? -Bill On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Yiou Li wrote: > Hi all, > > I installed a Python2.7 on my home directory in a Redhat Linux system. > Then I tried to get rid of the system default path to python at > '/usr/bin' --- I did this by set PATH="" in my .cshrc script. After I > did a fresh system login, I find that my $PATH is set to empty. > However, when I type "which > python", I still get the old path "/usr/bin/python". > > I also tried set the evironment variable "set > PYTHONPATH=/my_python_directory" in .cshrc and refresh my login, but > the python command still refers to "/usr/bin/python". > > I just want to *overwrite* the system build-in python with my own > installation, could anybody tell me how can I do that? > > Many thanks! > Leo > _______________________________________________ > Baypiggies mailing list > Baypiggies at python.org > To change your subscription options or unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/baypiggies > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From liyiou at gmail.com Wed Sep 22 07:15:15 2010 From: liyiou at gmail.com (Yiou Li) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:15:15 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] New python installation can't overwrite the system python. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: William, I tried that, doesn't update the python path either. Leo On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:13 PM, William Deegan wrote: > Leo, > Why not just > export PATH=PATH_TO_YOUR_PYTHON:$PATH ? > -Bill > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Yiou Li wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I installed a Python2.7 on my home directory in a Redhat Linux system. >> Then I tried to get rid of the system default path to python at >> '/usr/bin' --- I did this by set PATH="" in my .cshrc script. After I >> did a fresh system login, I find that my $PATH is set to empty. >> However, when I type "which >> python", I still get the old path "/usr/bin/python". >> >> I also tried set the evironment variable "set >> PYTHONPATH=/my_python_directory" in .cshrc and refresh my login, but >> the python command still refers to "/usr/bin/python". >> >> I just want to *overwrite* the system build-in python with my own >> installation, could anybody tell me how can I do that? >> >> Many thanks! >> Leo >> _______________________________________________ >> Baypiggies mailing list >> Baypiggies at python.org >> To change your subscription options or unsubscribe: >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/baypiggies > > From bdbaddog at gmail.com Wed Sep 22 07:19:14 2010 From: bdbaddog at gmail.com (William Deegan) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:19:14 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] New python installation can't overwrite the system python. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Leo, You need to use: setenv and not set in csh or tcsh -Bill On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Yiou Li wrote: > William, > > I tried that, doesn't update the python path either. > > Leo > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:13 PM, William Deegan > wrote: > > Leo, > > Why not just > > export PATH=PATH_TO_YOUR_PYTHON:$PATH ? > > -Bill > > > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Yiou Li wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I installed a Python2.7 on my home directory in a Redhat Linux system. > >> Then I tried to get rid of the system default path to python at > >> '/usr/bin' --- I did this by set PATH="" in my .cshrc script. After I > >> did a fresh system login, I find that my $PATH is set to empty. > >> However, when I type "which > >> python", I still get the old path "/usr/bin/python". > >> > >> I also tried set the evironment variable "set > >> PYTHONPATH=/my_python_directory" in .cshrc and refresh my login, but > >> the python command still refers to "/usr/bin/python". > >> > >> I just want to *overwrite* the system build-in python with my own > >> installation, could anybody tell me how can I do that? > >> > >> Many thanks! > >> Leo > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Baypiggies mailing list > >> Baypiggies at python.org > >> To change your subscription options or unsubscribe: > >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/baypiggies > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From keith at dartworks.biz Wed Sep 22 07:21:28 2010 From: keith at dartworks.biz (Keith Dart) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:21:28 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] New python installation can't overwrite the system python. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20100921222128.74e056f0@dartworks.biz> === On Tue, 09/21, Yiou Li wrote: === > I tried that, doesn't update the python path either. === The PYTHONPATH is the variable Python uses to find extra modules. Your shell uses the PATH to find Python. Your shell also caches the path so you may be experiencing that. After changing PATH, do a "hash -r" command to clear the command cache and try again. If your new python is on the PATH first it will then use that one. Verify also by doing this: Python> import sys Python> sys.prefix '/usr' Your own python should have /home/... as prefix. Python bases the module search path on that also. -- Keith Dart -- -- ------------------------------ Keith Dart ================================= From wescpy at gmail.com Wed Sep 22 21:06:55 2010 From: wescpy at gmail.com (wesley chun) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:06:55 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] SF Python Meetup, Wed 9/22 6:30-9:30p Message-ID: if you can't get enough of Python, how about back-to-back user group meetings? tonight is the SF Python meetup, and tomorrow is BayPIGgies. below is tonight's agenda and info i'm posting for grace. cheers, -wesley What: "Bitch 'n' Fix" django and Lightening Talks When: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 6:30 PM Where: Lolapps 116 New Montgomery Street, #700 San Francisco, CA 94105 For September, we will try a new format of lightening talks and "bitch 'n' fixed". Responses from the 'call for bitches' earlier indicated that people want to 'bitch n fix' django most. Many also expressed that they want to hear what others are doing, how they are using python, specific interests include: PIL, caching, pygame, pyglet on osx, merge/replace in sqlalchemy, pdb post mortem, tail call optimization, Element Tree... With this in mind, let's go with an informal format similar to Lightening Talks (which incidentally, is an idea started at Python Conference and now adopted in most conferences, code camps, SHDH, etc.. In fact, lightening talks are fast becoming engineers' favorite session at tech events). Here is more info if you are not familiar. So, here is how it will work. When you arrive, sign-up for your 5 mins of 'bitch n fix' / lightening talks. After some time, we will switch gear and work together and 'fix' the things we complained about - (probably mostly on django at this point), or continue to geek out on topics previously covered. Also, very important! The building's security requires the FULL NAME and EMAIL of all visitors ahead of time for after hours entry. Please fill out this form if you haven't done so already. Agenda 6:30p - Check-in and mingle, with Pizza and Beer provided by our sponsor Lolapps 7.00p - 'Bitch' / Lightening talks (5 minutes each) 7.40p - 'Fix' / more geeking out (Lolapps has a number of white boards we can use too) 8:25p - Closing remarks, but floor will be open for more Bitching, Fixing, Mingling, Ping pong/beer pong... 9:30p - Door close and moving the party to John Colins Sounds good? Feel free to ping me with questions or suggestions - Cheers, Grace RSVP to this Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/sfpython/calendar/14760540/ -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Python Web Development with Django", Addison Wesley, (c) 2009 ? ? http://withdjango.com wesley.j.chun :: wescpy-at-gmail.com python training and technical consulting cyberweb.consulting : silicon valley, ca http://cyberwebconsulting.com From gracelaw at mac.com Wed Sep 22 23:54:26 2010 From: gracelaw at mac.com (Grace Law) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:54:26 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] "Bitch 'n' Fix" django and Lightening Talks at sfpython meetup tonight Message-ID: Hi there, I am the organizer of sfpython meet-up. We have a meeting tonight in SF. Would love to see you there but please do RSVP and fill out the building access form below. Hope to see you there Grace PS. Lolapps is sponsoring this event and has tons of beer and pizzas :) ------------------ Announcing a new Meetup for San Francisco Python Meetup Group! What: "Bitch 'n' Fix" django and Lightening Talks When: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 6:30 PM Where: Lolapps 116 New Montgomery Street, #700 San Francisco, CA 94105 For September, we will try a new format of lightening talks and "bitch 'n' fixed". Responses from the 'call for bitches' earlier indicated that people want to 'bitch n fix' django most. Many also expressed that they want to hear what others are doing, how they are using python, specific interests include: PIL, caching, pygame, pyglet on osx, merge/replace in sqlalchemy, pdb post mortem, tail call optimization, Element Tree... With this in mind, let's go with an informal format similar to Lightening Talks (which incidentally, is an idea started at Python Conference and now adopted in most conferences, code camps, SHDH, etc.. In fact, lightening talks are fast becoming engineers' favorite session at tech events). Here is more info if you are not familiar. So, here is how it will work. When you arrive, sign-up for your 5 mins of 'bitch n fix' / lightening talks. After some time, we will switch gear and work together and 'fix' the things we complained about - (probably mostly on django at this point), or continue to geek out on topics previously covered. Also, very important! The building's security requires the FULL NAME and EMAIL of all visitors ahead of time for after hours entry. Please fill out this form if you haven't done so already. Agenda 6:30p - Check-in and mingle, with Pizza and Beer provided by our sponsor Lolapps 7.00p - 'Bitch' / Lightening talks (5 minutes each) 7.40p - 'Fix' / more geeking out (Lolapps has a number of white boards we can use too) 8:25p - Closing remarks, but floor will be open for more Bitching, Fixing, Mingling, Ping pong/beer pong... 9:30p - Door close and moving the party to John Colins Sounds good? Feel free to ping me with questions or suggestions - Cheers, Grace RSVP to this Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/sfpython/calendar/14760540/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jim at systemateka.com Thu Sep 23 00:25:57 2010 From: jim at systemateka.com (jim) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:25:57 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] What shall we do for our November and December meetings? Message-ID: <1285194357.2207.53.camel@jim-laptop> Hi, all, BayPIGgies meetings are scheduled for the fourth Thursday of each month. Predictably Thanksgiving and Christmas have disruptive effects, and each year we have to talk out what to do. We typically decide not to have meetings on the fourth Thursday of either month. Last year, I believe we had meetings both months on the third Thursdays. Here are the dates for this year's November and December Thursdays: November: Thursday 18 and 25 December: Thursday 16 and 23 We have a speaker for November and we have the possibility of a speaker for December. What are your feelings (who expects to be around and interested in coming)? I'm guessing we'll probably settle on the third Thursday of November, not so confident on what we'll decide for December (third Thursday or none?). Please respond. with thanks, jim From tony at tcapp.com Thu Sep 23 00:43:45 2010 From: tony at tcapp.com (Tony Cappellini) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:43:45 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] What shall we do for our November and December meetings? 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The event is hosted by the OLPC San Francisco volunteer community. Website: http://olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2010/ Where: SFSU Downtown Campus, 835 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94103 When: Fri, Oct 22 - Sun Oct 24 ? See the Schedule on the website People: See pictures, bios and a list of confirmed registrants - People on the website Registration: Regular Price is $35. See Registration on the website Donate/Promote: Request for travel scholarships & images for promoting the event - Donate/Promote on the website Contact: Join our email list http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf ? ? ? ? ? ? ?http://twitter.com/olpcsf ? ? ? ? ? ? ?http://identi.ca/olpcsf ? ? ? ? ? ? ?http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=68179607655 From bryceverdier at gmail.com Thu Sep 23 19:13:27 2010 From: bryceverdier at gmail.com (Bryce Verdier) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:13:27 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] What shall we do for our November and December meetings? In-Reply-To: References: <1285194357.2207.53.camel@jim-laptop> Message-ID: <4C9B8AB7.6060706@gmail.com> Worse case is that we have the meetings those two months at SurveyMonkey if we can't get the meeting room at Symantec. For that reason I vote for figuring out the days ourselves, and seeing if Symantec can accommodate. On that note, just to help get the ball rolling, I am comfortable with 3rd Thursdays for both months. See you guys tonight. Bryce On 09/22/2010 03:43 PM, Tony Cappellini wrote: > > "We have a speaker for November" > > and the topic for that presentation is > "Embedding Python as a Realtime Audio Scripting Engine" > > I'm guessing we'll probably settle on the > third Thursday of November, not so confident on what > we'll decide for December (third Thursday or none?). > > > All of this also hinges on which days Symantec can make the meeting > room available for us. > > I'd like to have some dates agreed on for both months before > contacting them, so we don't have to go back and forth. > > Or- would people prefer I ask Symantec which alternate dates are > available in Nov & Dec and post them here for everyone to decide? > > > _______________________________________________ > Baypiggies mailing list > Baypiggies at python.org > To change your subscription options or unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/baypiggies -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alexandre.conrad at gmail.com Thu Sep 23 20:30:38 2010 From: alexandre.conrad at gmail.com (Alexandre Conrad) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:30:38 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] What shall we do for our November and December meetings? In-Reply-To: <4C9B8AB7.6060706@gmail.com> References: <1285194357.2207.53.camel@jim-laptop> <4C9B8AB7.6060706@gmail.com> Message-ID: 2010/9/23 Bryce Verdier : > Worse case is that we have the meetings those two months at SurveyMonkey if > we can't get the meeting room at Symantec. For that reason I vote for > figuring out the days ourselves, and seeing if Symantec can accommodate. SurveyMonkey is an option, although less likely during Thanksgiving. If Symantec can't have the meeting room available for the chosen dates, let me know and I'll see what I can do on my side. The 3rd Thursday is fine with me as well. Regards, -- Alex | twitter.com/alexconrad From Fadi at shopkick.com Fri Sep 24 01:59:53 2010 From: Fadi at shopkick.com (Fadi Bishara) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:59:53 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] Job post - ShopKick Message-ID: Shopkick is looking for a Server-Side Engineer to write the logic that powers web and mobile services, informed by a thoroughgoing knowledge of infrastructure, scalability, and performance. Responsibilities - Design, implement, benchmark, and deploy simple, elegant, high-performance code. - Create scalable infrastructure supporting rapid expansion. - Design and implement flexible APIs supporting location-based services from smart phones. Skills - You have a thoroughgoing understanding of server-side engineering for web sites, using open-source software stacks. - You are a creative thinker, with a knack for finding the simple "right" answer, in an extensible way. - You like to develop code in an "agile" development, working closely with product and the rest of the engineering team throughout the development process. - You are comfortable with database design and querying, preferably MySQL: you know the trade-offs in schema design, you're not the kind of person who delegates all queries to an ORM, and you know (and care) what is efficient. - You have worked on projects that have "scaled big." You automatically think about distributed systems. It's likely (and desirable) that you were there for a lot of growth, and you've got some scars from scaling that have taught you how to approach scalability. - You understand the underpinnings of large-scale distributed systems, including communications mechanisms, caching technologies, etc. - You have experience in API design, and RESTful services are second nature for you. You're also comfortable with binary wire protocols, and know when to prefer one over the other. - You have been exposed to service-oriented architectures. You're comfortable with the idea of combining data from various sources on the fly, and with figuring out how to get it fast. - Since you care about scalability and are something of an out-of-the-box thinker, it's likely that you have extensive experience with non-relational data stores as well (Sleepycat, BigTable, Cassandra, etc.). - You have an unusually comprehensive systems-level understanding of web services. You can think backwards from an SLA to figure out what types od redundancy are needed and how to provide it inexpensively, using open-source technologies. - You are sensitive to performance issues and routinely instrument code and address bottlenecks with appropriate data models, algorithms, tools, and techniques. - You are the sort of person whom your peers naturally gravitate toward and look to for expertise when they are lost. You like to code, but you are also a leader. Experience - At least four years' experience writing distributed, high-volume web services. - Familiarity with several open-source application development stacks. - Facility with SQL query analysis. - BSCS or better, or equivalent experience. - Experience with service-oriented architectures, such as Thrift, ActiveMQ, etc., strongly preferred. - Experience designing APIs preferred. - Expertise in Python a strong plus. Pylons is an added bonus. - Exposure to enterprise systems in a previous life a plus. 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Please try to arrive on time to avoid disappointment. We have space for around 10-20 people. Where ----- Stong conference room, 1st floor, SF Main Public Library. Map: http://tinyurl.com/pywebsfmap The library is easily accessible via both BART and Muni at the Civic Center station. The library closes at 8pm so we will continue the discussion over food/drinks at Frjtz Fries [http://www.frjtzfries.com]. More info --------- Subscribe to our Google Calendar at http://tinyurl.com/pywebcal Slides, links, and more at http://pywebsf.org/ Thanks! -- Niall O'Higgins PyWebSF http://pywebsf.org http://niallohiggins.com http://twitter.com/niallohiggins +1-717-SIGTERM (744-8376) From aahz at pythoncraft.com Fri Sep 24 22:01:50 2010 From: aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:01:50 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] Call for proposals -- PyCon 2011 Message-ID: <20100924200149.GA23883@panix.com> ----- Forwarded message from Jesse Noller ----- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:30:17 -0400 From: Jesse Noller Subject: Call for proposals -- PyCon 2011 Call for proposals -- PyCon 2011 -- =============================================================== Proposal Due date: November 1st, 2010 PyCon is back! With a rocking new website, a great location and more Python hackers and luminaries under one roof than you could possibly shake a stick at. We've also added an "Extreme" talk track this year - no introduction, no fluff - only the pure technical meat! PyCon 2011 will be held March 9th through the 17th, 2011 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Home of some of the best southern food you can possibly find on Earth!) The PyCon conference days will be March 11-13, preceded by two tutorial days (March 9-10), and followed by four days of development sprints (March 14-17). PyCon 2011 is looking for proposals for the formal presentation tracks (this includes "extreme talks"). A request for proposals for poster sessions and tutorials will come separately. Want to showcase your skills as a Python Hacker? Want to have hundreds of people see your talk on the subject of your choice? Have some hot button issue you think the community needs to address, or have some package, code or project you simply love talking about? Want to launch your master plan to take over the world with Python? PyCon is your platform for getting the word out and teaching something new to hundreds of people, face to face. In the past, PyCon has had a broad range of presentations, from reports on academic and commercial projects, tutorials on a broad range of subjects, and case studies. All conference speakers are volunteers and come from a myriad of backgrounds: some are new speakers, some have been speaking for years. Everyone is welcome, so bring your passion and your code! We've had some incredible past PyCons, and we're looking to you to help us top them! Online proposal submission is open now! Proposals will be accepted through November 10th, with acceptance notifications coming out by January 20th. To get started, please see: For videos of talks from previous years - check out: For more information on "Extreme Talks" see: We look forward to seeing you in Atlanta! Please also note - registration for PyCon 2011 will also be capped at a maximum of 1,500 delegates, including speakers. When registration opens (soon), you're going to want to make sure you register early! Speakers with accepted talks will have a guaranteed slot. Important Dates: * November 1st, 2010: Talk proposals due. * December 15th, 2010: Acceptance emails sent. * January 19th, 2010: Early bird registration closes. * March 9-10th, 2011: Tutorial days at PyCon. * March 11-13th, 2011: PyCon main conference. * March 14-17th, 2011: PyCon sprints days. Contact Emails: Van Lindberg (Conference Chair) - van at python.org Jesse Noller (Co-Chair) - jnoller at python.org PyCon Organizers list: pycon-organizers at python.org From jack at sunprint.com Fri Sep 24 22:36:43 2010 From: jack at sunprint.com (Jack Parmer) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:36:43 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] seeking web developer for renewable energy start-up Message-ID: Alion Inc - Database Programmer Job Description Alion Inc is seeking a database programmer to develop a platform for capturing, storing, and reporting/visualizing key process data related to solar panels processed on Alion's line. The scope of this position includes the development of light-weight scripts customized for each tool to parse process data and send it to an on-site server; the development and improvement of the display of data on an internal Web 2.0 website; and the integration of barcode scanners for the tracking and display of product flow through the factory. Close collaboration with the research and production teams will be necessary to make sure that all important information is being recorded and accessible in a user-friendly interface from the website. Required Duties - Interact with equipment owners to determine process equipment variables to be tracked in the database. - Modify the database as needed to provide fast interactive access to the critical process parameters and results. - Insure the security of the system against unauthorized changes or data entry. - Test and improve the reliability of bar code readers/markers to record data accurately. - Work in a team environment to develop a system that fits the needs of all customers. - Monitor in-house server and work with IT staff to anticipate necessary upgrades to server. 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It would be nice if someone could post the link to Alex's pdf. P.S. to Alex: Wikipedia sez Alonzo Church was born in Washington DC "where his father, Samuel Robbins Church, was the Justice of the Municipal Court for the District of Columbia" and that his uncle was also named Alonzo Church. So, an example of inheritance rather than a Singleton?? -- Ned Deily, nad at acm.org From mamin at mbasciences.com Fri Sep 24 23:43:58 2010 From: mamin at mbasciences.com (Minesh B. Amin) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:43:58 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] BayPIGgies meeting Thursday, September 23, 2010: Powerful Python Patterns In-Reply-To: References: <1284873014.2514.6.camel@jim-laptop> Message-ID: <1285364638.6222.1.camel@lusaka> Hi Ned, http://www.aleax.it/bayp010_ppp.pdf --> Yesterday's talk http://www.aleax.it/oscon010_pydp.pdf Cheers. Minesh > Thanks to Alex for providing YAST (i.e. stimulating talk). On the way > home my head was filled with visions of gazelles and rocks and, yes, > design patterns. It would be nice if someone could post the link to > Alex's pdf. > > P.S. to Alex: Wikipedia sez Alonzo Church was born in Washington DC > "where his father, Samuel Robbins Church, was the Justice of the > Municipal Court for the District of Columbia" and that his uncle was > also named Alonzo Church. So, an example of inheritance rather than a > Singleton?? From fperez.net at gmail.com Sat Sep 25 02:23:27 2010 From: fperez.net at gmail.com (Fernando Perez) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:23:27 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] [ANN - Py4Science@Cal] IPython: recent developments Message-ID: Hi folks, here's the info for next week. I hope to see you there, we're very excited about the recent IPython improvements and look forward to the feedback from your suffering (er, testing :) Regards, f Py4Science @ Cal meeting When: Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 2pm. Where: Redwood Center's conference room: 508-20 Evans Hall Title: IPython: recent developments Speaker: Fernando Perez Abstract: I'll present, completely informally, a demo of the recent work we have done on IPython which brings a host of improvements to the interactive computing workflow in IPython. This code has not been released yet officially but is available on github already: http://github.com/ipython/ipython/tree/newkernel I'll provide a description of the underlying design and technology we're using, as well as a demo of the user-facing improvements. You are welcome to (and encouraged) to bring your own laptop and install it in advance if you want to play with it. Being such development-state code, it currently needs to be installed from source, but if you are comfortable with this approach by all means give it a try. You will need: ZeroMQ and its python bindings, Pyzqm, version 2.0.8: http://www.zeromq.org/local--files/area:download/zeromq-2.0.8.tar.gz http://github.com/downloads/zeromq/pyzmq/pyzmq-2.0.8.tar.gz The installation instructions for these can be found here: http://www.zeromq.org/area:download http://www.zeromq.org/bindings:python PyQt: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/download And the above branch of IPython. Once installed, run the 'ipythonqt' script. Try --help to see the different flags you can use to start it, and once you have it running, *first* type '%guiref' to read a quick introduction to its basic features. From tony at tcapp.com Sat Sep 25 22:02:21 2010 From: tony at tcapp.com (Tony Cappellini) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 13:02:21 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] What shall we do for our November and December meetings? In-Reply-To: References: <1285194357.2207.53.camel@jim-laptop> Message-ID: I've emailed Symantec already about Nov & Dec dates. My contact is OOT but should be back by Monday On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Patrick Stinson wrote: > I can give the talk at any time at this point, so I would prefer you just > ask Symantec first. > > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Tony Cappellini wrote: > >> >> "We have a speaker for November" >> >> and the topic for that presentation is >> "Embedding Python as a Realtime Audio Scripting Engine" >> >> >>> I'm guessing we'll probably settle on the >>> third Thursday of November, not so confident on what >>> we'll decide for December (third Thursday or none?). >>> >> >> All of this also hinges on which days Symantec can make the meeting room >> available for us. >> >> I'd like to have some dates agreed on for both months before contacting >> them, so we don't have to go back and forth. >> >> Or- would people prefer I ask Symantec which alternate dates are available >> in Nov & Dec and post them here for everyone to decide? >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Tony Cappellini wrote: > > "We have a speaker for November" > > and the topic for that presentation is > "Embedding Python as a Realtime Audio Scripting Engine" > > >> I'm guessing we'll probably settle on the >> third Thursday of November, not so confident on what >> we'll decide for December (third Thursday or none?). >> > > All of this also hinges on which days Symantec can make the meeting room > available for us. > > I'd like to have some dates agreed on for both months before contacting > them, so we don't have to go back and forth. > > Or- would people prefer I ask Symantec which alternate dates are available > in Nov & Dec and post them here for everyone to decide? > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From cappy2112 at gmail.com Mon Sep 27 21:21:11 2010 From: cappy2112 at gmail.com (Tony Cappellini) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:21:11 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] Alternate Baypiggies meeting dates for Nov & Dec- approval from Symantec Message-ID: We got approval for Nov 18th & Dec 16 from Symantec. If there aren't too many objections to this, I'll reply with Symantec to confirm. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chris.d.burns at gmail.com Wed Sep 29 20:21:18 2010 From: chris.d.burns at gmail.com (Christopher Burns) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:21:18 -0700 Subject: [Baypiggies] Python software engineer position in Berkeley Message-ID: Software Engineer Position at Berkeley-Based Biomedical Software Company O.N. Diagnostics is a privately-held company located in downtown Berkeley that is translating software technology originally developed by researchers at UC Berkeley and UCSF into clinical applications. The company?s proprietary software leverages imaging processing, computer vision, finite element modeling, and biomechanics to perform non-invasive clinical assessment of bone strength and bone-implant systems, specifically in the areas of osteoporosis, cancer management, bone drug development, and orthopedic surgical planning. The company has immediate openings for a well-rounded developer to work on all layers of our software stack, from the GUI front-end to the underlying algorithms, with the overall goal of making the next generation of our software more efficient and streamlined. This programmer will have a passion for software usability, a keen attention to detail, and be capable of implementing a software specification, taking ownership of a project and seeing it to completion. Good communication and problem-solving skills are essential as are the abilities to work independently and as part of a team. Prior experience in medical applications and image processing, although desirable, is not required. The majority of the development will be in Python, on Ubuntu, using your favorite code editor. Qualifications: * BS or MS in Computer Science or related field. * Development experience with Python and C++. * Development experience on Linux platforms. * Experience working on a collaborative software project. (Industry or OSS project) * Experience releasing software and working directly with end-users. (Industry or OSS project) If interested, please email your pdf-formatted CV or resume and statement of interest to programmer at ondiagnostics.com with the phrase ?Software Engineer? in the subject line.