From michelle at pdxpython.org Thu May 3 21:07:13 2012 From: michelle at pdxpython.org (Michelle Rowley) Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 12:07:13 -0700 Subject: [portland] Next Meeting: Tuesday 5/8, 6:30pm @ Urban Airship! Message-ID: <5EC33C85-3558-4E4A-A19E-CDC7608E0B6D@pdxpython.org> Hey Pythoneers! Here's your friendly reminder that the next PDX Python Monthly Meeting is coming up on Tuesday, May 8th, at 6:30pm at Urban Airship. This month we're excited to have one Open Source Bridge (http://opensourcebridge.org/) conference pass to raffle off at the meeting. Come join us to enter your name into the drawing! They've also given us a discount code to share with our members which will be announced again at the meeting. Eric Holscher will give a talk entitled, "Tastypie + Slumber = More Than a Food Coma." Lightning Talks are scheduled afterward and we already have five people on the schedule! Email me if you'd like to get on the board for a 5-10 minute talk, or just bring your slides to the meeting and sign up. Following the meeting we'll probably head over to Bailey's Taproom. Event details + RSVP here: http://meetu.ps/81JnW. Hope to see you there! Michelle --- Michelle Rowley @pythonchelle http://www.meetup.com/pdxpython -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rbednark at gmail.com Mon May 7 16:38:03 2012 From: rbednark at gmail.com (Rob Bednark) Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 07:38:03 -0700 Subject: [portland] Submit your ideas for Python Quiz or Ask the Audience for tomorrow's Portland Python meetup Message-ID: <4FA7DE4B.4000201@gmail.com> Do you have any ideas for questions for the Python Quiz or Ask the Audience at tomorrow's Python meetup? Email them to me or submit them here: http://bit.ly/pypdx Anything Python-related is fair game, any level of difficulty. Submit your suggestions before 3pm Tue, May 8. Ask the Audience is your chance to ask questions of the audience (advice, problems, poll the audience, ...). Rob Bednark Here's my notes from the last four Ask the Audience / Reverse Q&A sessions: =============================================================================== Portland Python Meetup Ask the Audience / Reverse Q&A Tue, April 10, 2012 About 51 people present Q: What do you use for editing/debugging/....? A: Vi/vim 27 Emacs 12 Sublime 7 Eclipse / PyDev 5 Visual Studio 2.5 Pycharm 2 Gedit 2 Textmate 2 MG 1 Ed 1 Q: What is your job status? A: Permanent jobs 22 Freelancing? 6 Unemployed 6 Students 4 Q: How many people are using Python 3 in production? A: 1 Q: For the quiz question with the unicode string, how would you include a '\u' in a string that included Unicode Escapes? A: u'\\uqwe\u0020asd' Q: How many learned to program by going to school? A: 7 On your own? 35 ================================================================================ Portland Python Meetup Reverse Q&A Tue, Mar 13, 2012 Q: For newbie programmers, what is a good, small web development project that can be done in Python and Django? A: Blog. CRUD (Create Read Update Delete) (address book, todo list). Message syndicator (post to Facebook and Twitter). Extend the polling tutorial to work as a meeting organization tool (submit ideas, ...). Learn how forms work. Q: Could someone talk about Python and NoSQL -- explanation and options? A: - NoSQL is a movement against SQL; - lots of Python interfaces for NoSQL db's; - Zope object db (zodb); - PostgreSQL meeting this week is about NoSQL; - tomorrow is CouchConf in Portland. Q: Could someone talk more about Pyracite? A: (Graham talked about it, but I didn't capture any notes) Q: What did you find interesting at PyCon US 2012? A: Link Grammar (natural lang parser); used by Relix (python bindings); break English sentences down Enamel - Enthought - kit for GUI construction Brandon Rhodes - talk on how memory works - virtual memory issues; faulting; reference counting; Python3 transition? Guido - going fine, will take long time, transition is happening; Django 1.4 coming; 1.5 will start rolling in Python3 Guido - Google+ post - 2.7 is done (no more development) Carl Meyer - testing in Django talk; very good ================================================================================ Portland Python Meetup Reverse Q&A Tue, Jan 10, 2012 Q: What are you using for automated web testing? Watir GhostJS Selenium (wrote own client using SeleniumRC) - 7 Alfajor / Django_Alfajor - 4 Sahi.co.in Cram - http client in Curl; Unixy (non-web browser) - 1 Twill - 2 Ruby / Cucumber / Rspec / Capybara - 2 Lettuce - 2 Q: Does anybody do quant (quantitative) work with Python? (scipy, ...) (stats, math optimization, ...) gmpy (arbitrary precision) pandas - financial, time series meetup group - solving academic problems (Numerical Computing group -- merged into another) Portland R group Q: What is the clear winner among the Python web frameworks? Django Pyramid - new and upcoming Flask - ate up smaller frameworks CherryPy WSGI - roll your own Werkzeug* Twisted - it's own world; server protocol framework; lots persistent connections; asynch network framework Q: Anyone using PyPy in production? A: No Q: What do you like about Python? - reads like psuedocode - __metaclass__ - free beer at meetup - forced organization (whitespace; no brackets) - module distribution (eggs, ...); environments (virtualenv, pip, ...) - great community - one right way to do things - python community - maintainers stick around; Q: What do you not like about Python? - too slow - GIL (Global Interpreter Lock) - not truly multi-threaded - live debugging tools awkward; not powerful - lambdas (it's only one expression; not a real anonymous function compared to other true functional languages) - fragmentation of the web platforms (webpy, django, pylons, zope) - BDFL (led Python into the woods) (lamdbas, GIL, Python3, ...) - Python3 - lot of lib maintainers have not chosen to go to Python3 yet - no case, "x if something else y" - variable scoping is weird - subclassing, overriding, super, keyword args -- lot of syntax; awkward syntax - don't like spaces preference over tabs - loop - repeat - extra expressions before you hit the repeat section; initial value; increment; loop/until/repeat (Databasic on Pick OS) ================================================================================ Portland Python Meetup Reverse Q&A Tue, Nov 8, 2011 Q: What are you using for building REST API's? Restish - 2 Piston - 2 Tastypy - 1 DjangoRESTframework - 1 Werkzeug - 4 roll your own (httplib) - 9 Twisted - 2 Diesel - Q: What version of Python are you using in production? 2.4 - 1 2.5 - 1 2.6 - 9 2.7.2 - 9 3.1 - 2 Q: How long before you will be using Python 3 in production? Q: How many are waiting for Django to move to v3? 4 Q: Who has been paid to program in... Ruby? 7 Perl? 7 C? 14 C++ 11 Java? 12 Javascript? 19 PHP - 14 XBase - 1 Cobol - 1 bash - 13 C# - 7 J - 1 Go - 2 Haskell - 2 Objective C - 3 ActionScript - -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mickmcd01 at yahoo.com Wed May 9 17:16:18 2012 From: mickmcd01 at yahoo.com (Mick) Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 08:16:18 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [portland] Employment opportunity at Smarsh, Inc. Message-ID: <1336576578.96137.YahooMailNeo@web121003.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> As I mentioned at the Python Users Group meeting last night, Smarsh is looking for a Python developer. ? 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The course is based on my bestselling "Core Python" books and is made up of 3 full days complete with lectures and three hands-on coding labs per day. Please pass on this message to your colleagues who also need to learn Python. It's also a great excuse to coming to beautiful Northern California for a summer vacation! More details at http://goo.gl/uW4oF as well as the links in my .signature below. Since I hate spam, I'll only send out one more reminder as the date gets closer... probably around OSCON's timeframe. Hope to meet some of you soon! --Wesley Chun - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "A computer never does what you want... only what you tell it." ? ? wesley chun : wescpy at gmail?: @wescpy/+wescpy ? ? Python training & consulting :?http://CyberwebConsulting.com ? ? "Core Python" books :?http://CorePython.com ? ? Python blog: http://wescpy.blogspot.com From xwraithanx at gmail.com Sat May 12 23:41:19 2012 From: xwraithanx at gmail.com (Wraithan McDonald) Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 14:41:19 -0700 Subject: [portland] Portland Schools Hackathon Message-ID: Hackathon to try to help people connect to the schools in their neighborhood in various ways. I'll be there and I encourage others to come as well! Date: June 2nd, 2012 Time: 10am onwards Place: PIE, 1227 NW Davis St More details: http://hackforportlandschools.com/ From michelle at pdxpython.org Tue May 15 20:57:01 2012 From: michelle at pdxpython.org (Michelle Rowley) Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 11:57:01 -0700 Subject: [portland] Hack Night Tomorrow, 6-9pm at Urban Airship! Message-ID: <97A759DD-D736-48B2-8E0B-EDF7C32AAD44@pdxpython.org> Hola Pythonistas, Tomorrow night is our second Monthly Hack Night, from 6-9pm at Urban Airship. Bring a project and/or a friend and join us for an evening of socialization and code! Everyone is welcome, regardless of Python experience. If you'd like to be a mentor for newer Python programmers, send me a note and I'll bring you a super sweet ribbon to wear on your arm so newbies can find you. :) RSVP here: http://meetu.ps/8Ws7M. See you tomorrow! Michelle --- Michelle Rowley @pythonchelle http://www.meetup.com/pdxpython -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From casevh at gmail.com Mon May 21 18:05:02 2012 From: casevh at gmail.com (Case Van Horsen) Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 09:05:02 -0700 Subject: [portland] Assistance on OSX Message-ID: Hi, As some of you know, I maintain GMPY2 - a Python wrapper for the GMP/MPFR/MPC multiple precision libraries. Someone has reported on a bug on OSX. Unfortunately, I do not have access to any Mac hardware for testing. If someone could help me test/debug the issue, please let me know. Thanks, Case email: casevh at gmail dot com From tony at itmotives.com Thu May 24 19:58:11 2012 From: tony at itmotives.com (Tony Seminary) Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 17:58:11 +0000 Subject: [portland] Software Engineer (Python): Portland, OR: USA Message-ID: <6A32DDEC1ED2F649B619871EBDCA58C613A84DE3@BL2PRD0710MB361.namprd07.prod.outlook.com> Good Day! We are looking to find a full-stack Software Engineer who is interested in working with Python, Django, Postgres, Linux, etc. They don't need people from this kind of background, they can be from a .NET or Java stack, that's fine. They are more looking for a personality fit, and ideally people that are into the live music scene. If you or someone you know is interested, please reach out to me tony at itmotives.com. This is a very unique and cool opportunity with a Portland-based start-up. Thank you! 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Requirements: * Minimum 2 years of professional experience with Python * Solid understanding of internet infrastructure * Knowledge of AWS/EC2/S3 * Experience with distributed systems, REST APIs, and web service development * Comfortable with Linux as a development environment and agile practices * C/C++ experience very helpful * CUDA and/or OpenCL a plus * ZMQ, Fabric, (Py)Qt, and Redis good to know * Some Ruby/Rails knowledge nice to have Contact info: Contact: Donald Welch E-mail: bartonlabsjobs at gmail.com Please send: Resume and an email introducing yourself Web: http://www.brevityv.com/ From kirby.urner at gmail.com Sat May 26 06:12:56 2012 From: kirby.urner at gmail.com (kirby urner) Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 21:12:56 -0700 Subject: [portland] Assistance on OSX In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I'm going to dive in to GMPY2 on Lion here shortly. I'll plan to be responsive once I'm through the install. Good seeing you at Open Bastion me lady (talking to Sir Michelle -- a newest PSF member). Looking forward to crossing paths with a lot of you, by hook or by crook (nyah hah hah). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my4FE6jfxs4 Kirby On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Case Van Horsen wrote: > Hi, > > As some of you know, I maintain GMPY2 - a Python wrapper for the > GMP/MPFR/MPC multiple precision libraries. Someone has reported on a > bug on OSX. Unfortunately, I do not have access to any Mac hardware > for testing. > > If someone could help me test/debug the issue, please let me know. > > Thanks, > Case > > email: casevh at gmail dot com > _______________________________________________ > Portland mailing list > Portland at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/portland From tony at itmotives.com Wed May 30 15:44:43 2012 From: tony at itmotives.com (Tony Seminary) Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 13:44:43 +0000 Subject: [portland] Software Developer, Portland, OR: USA Message-ID: <6A32DDEC1ED2F649B619871EBDCA58C613AA544C@BL2PRD0710MB361.namprd07.prod.outlook.com> Good Day! If you're into the live music scene and want to work on some cutting-edge Open Source technologies such as Python, Django, Postgres and also work with some really cool people, we have a *very* unique opportunity that awaits you! Please contact me at tony at itmotives.com for consideration. Thank you! 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