From brianhray at gmail.com Tue Jul 12 04:34:39 2011 From: brianhray at gmail.com (Brian Ray) Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:34:39 -0500 Subject: [ChiPy-announce] ANN ChiPy July Meeting at Morningstar Thurs 14 Message-ID: Chicago Python User Group ======================= When: 7 PM Thursday July 14, 2011 Where:?Morningstar Inc: Global Headquarters 22 W Washington St 7th floor Chicago, IL 60602 Join us for the best meeting ever! You will need to RSVP at?http://chipy.org/ RSVP Quick Links: YES?http://chipy.org/meetings/rsvp/35/yes MAYBE?http://chipy.org/meetings/rsvp/35/maybe Topics ------ (pre) 6:30 Meet and greet, food! (Morningstar) ? 1. 7:00 Apps for Metro (Geoff Hing) ? 2. 7:30 Playdoh (Kumar McMilla) 3. 7:55 five Minute break & book give away ? 4. 8:00 Katas in Ruby and Python (Paul Pagel) Details ------- Meet and greet (:30 Twenty Minutes) during: word from Morningstar and lightening talk by Joshua Herman on appengine geo location API 1. Apps for Metro (:20 Twenty Minutes) By: Geoff Hing Apps for Metro Chicago, Illinois is the first apps competition to be a collaborative effort among four governmental agencies. Submit your Python project into the competition! 2. Playdoh (:20 Twenty Minutes) By: Kumar McMillan Playdoh is Mozilla's starter kit for new Django projects. It aims to be secure-by-default and set up all the same goodies we use to scale for high traffic, perform background tasks, localize our sites in many languages, and other cool things. 3. Break and Free Books (:05 Five Minutes) 4. Katas in Ruby and Python (:45 Forty-Five Minutes) By: Paul Pagel Parallel *live* Katas programming done in Ruby, then mirrored in Python followed by a brief history of code katas and why deliberate practice is important to the professional software developer. Then an exercise (in kata) that we will be done as a group, both in Python and in Ruby-- with a comparison of different solutions (both Ruby and Python). We want to exaggerate the difference between the languages as small and the larger difference is how we approach problems and self improvement as software professionals. Location -------- Morningstar Inc: Global Headquarters 22 W Washington St, 7th floor Chicago, IL 60602 Place Page:?http://bit.ly/pQmlaC THANKS! ------- Video Sponsor: Paul May, ForecastWatch and Imaginary Landscape Food and Venue Hosts: Morningstar Inc For making the worlds best programming language: Python Software Foundation For making a great home for tech new and old, big and small: The City of Chicago For being a great fury animal: ChiPy the Maskot About the group --------------- ChiPy is a group of Chicago Python Programmers, l33t, and n00bs. Meetings are held monthly at various locations around Chicago. Also, ChiPy is a proud sponsor of many Open Source and Educational efforts in Chicago. Stay tuned to the mailing list for more info. ChiPy website: ChiPy Mailing List: ChiPy Announcement *ONLY* Mailing List: Python website: