[Chicago] ChiPy Planning Time

[Brian Ray]

Here's calling all interested parties who want to present on next  
Thursday.  I know you guys are all sitting inside right now hiding  
from the rain. Let's make this the most amazing meeting ever....  
Topics Topics Topics!!!


On Oct 3, 2009, at 10:41 AM, Brian Ray wrote:

> I have been playing with the idea of a Django-specific meeting.  We  
> seemed to do a good job at not being solely web oriented lately;  
> however, I also see where this would be a good topic for us.   I did  
> contact one of the major Django Chicago people to see if they want  
> to present sometime soon.
>
> Alternative, Tornado would be a good topic. Benchmarking also....  
> Like I said, at this point it is wide open.
>
> One note on one of the goals of this group: we really need to  
> revisit the idea of presenting on something language specific each  
> meeting.  It would be good if we have a 15 minute overview of any  
> language feature, one at a time:
>
>  * generators
>  * coroutines
>  * closures
>  * metaclasses
>  * copy.copy
>  * decorators
>  * list comprehension
>  * operator overloading
>  * multiple inheritance
>  * stings
>  * types
>  * static methods
>  * exception handling
>  * lambdas
>  * keyword arguments
>  * doc strings
>  * reflection

Brian Ray