[CentralOH] 2013-02-07

[jep200404 at columbus.rr.com]

Wifi at Cup O'Joe was feeble, so need some other location.
XY chose Così on Bethel for next dojo.
DoJoe is portmanteau of dojo + Cup o'Joe
Only dojos at Cup o'Joe are DoJoes.

_Must_ _must_ _must_ use virtualenv (which includes pip).
Install only a few Python packages system wide. 
Install most Python packages within a virtual environment.
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pip_(Python)
Search web for virtualenv tutorials.

    mkdir foo
    cd foo
    virtualenv env
    source env/bin/activate
    pip install django
    deactivate

Python 2 versus Python 3:
    The vast majority of programs are written in Python 2
    in no small part because many libraries have not been ported to Python 3.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyPI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyPy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet

IPython is cool https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPython
http://pandas.pydata.org/
Python for Data Analysis by Wes McKinney
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023784.do

UEFI (new BIOS)
Matthew Garrett formerly of Red Hat, has given presentations about UEFI, 
especially about the nasty bits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2aq5M3Q76U

sqlalchemy: good ORM

Django http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_(web_framework)
flask http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flask_(programming)
bottle http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/
pylons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pylons_project

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/
Cheap IPS monitors
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/07/the-ips-lcd-revolution.html
http://www.microcenter.com/product/384780/EQ276W_27_IPS_LED_Monitor

i7-3930K http://ark.intel.com/products/63697
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels#RAID_3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA_2011

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Short
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Whitney

http://blog.makezine.com/2012/07/25/maker-faire-detroit-the-girl-who-plays-with-fieros-interview/

Raymond Chandler III
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/centraloh/2012-October/001451.html