[Chicago] 2 talks

[Carl Karsten]

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
> Welcome back Carl!

Thanks. it's good to be back.

>
> When do you plan on sending? I suggest the week of the meeting,  next week.

k - monday it is.  hadn't really given it much thought.

> We also need to state somewhere this is the downtown meeting--I worry only a bit about people confusing the two meetings. I tried clearing this up in http://Chipy.org.

good point.

>
> Personally I favor three medium size presentations over two long ones. I think I recall someone stating they wanted present on a WSGI stack that could replace a web framework.

Oh yeah - Crhis, you up for this?

Nice title / descriptions would be nice.   something a bit more
announcement worthy.

>
> Thoughts?
>

 Breakfast. thats my thoughts.

> On Nov 1, 2010, at 11:47 PM, Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com> wrote:
>
>> Here is what I plan to send out once I confirm Pizza at 7:45.  how's it look?
>>
>>
>> ANN: ChiPy at ita Thu November 11, 7p
>>
>> ChiPy
>> =========================
>>
>> When: 7 PM Thursday November 11, 2010
>> Where: ITA
>>
>> This will be our Best Meeting Ever!
>>
>> Topics
>> ------
>> 1. 7:00 Mako and Cherrypy (Michael Mileusnich)
>> 2. 8:00 Tox (Kumar McMillan)
>>
>>
>> Details
>> -------
>>
>> 1. Mako and Cherrypy
>> Michael Mileusnich
>> using Mako combined with Cherrypy to create a Python web server,
>> passing data back and forth, and some javascript issues with certain
>> browsers.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2. Tox
>> Kumar McMillan
>> http://codespeak.net/tox/
>>
>> It's a great new open source tool that helps you support all versions
>> of python with your existing automated tests.  It's not a test runner,
>> it's a super test runner runner!  Or something.  There is no easy way
>> to describe it which is why the front page of the website is sort of
>> confusing, IMO.
>>
>> We use tox on the Nose project to make sure each code change doesn't
>> break the tests in Python 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.0 or Jython.  Not
>> everybody targets so many environments but if you want to maintain a
>> widely used module then you probably will want to use tox someday.
>>
>> Here's our Hudson matrix setup w/ tox:
>> http://hudson.testrun.org/job/nose-unstable/ (we just set this up
>> recently which is why most builds were broken in one or two envs)
>>
>> I can also spend some time going over how we are currently maintaining
>> a test suite that runs in both 2.x and 3.x simultaneously
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Location
>> --------
>> Illinois Technology Association (ITA)
>> 200 S. Wacker Drive
>> 15th Floor
>> Chicago, IL 60606
>>
>> 312.435.2805
>> http://www.illinoistech.org
>>
>> Metra: exit on Adams St, walk East across the bridge, first door on the right.
>>
>> Show your ID to security.  Be on the list or they will be sad.
>> http://chipy.org/FrontPage#sign-up
>>
>> About the group
>> ---------------
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>> knowledge. At every meeting we have had both beginning programmers,
>> people who are just starting to use Python, as well as experienced
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>>
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>> least so far, does anything else we have done, although we always
>> appreciate it when our presenters show up. (They usually do!)
>>
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>>
>> --
>> Carl K
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Carl K