Chicao Python Users Group ========================= Come join us for our best meeting ever! When: 7 PM Thursday December 10, 2009 Where: Sully's House Tap Room and Grill Topics ------ 1. 7:00 Packaging Python for Debian/Ubuntu (Tal Liron <tal.liron@threecrickets.com>) 2. 8:00 REST-ful Web apps with Django Piston (Matt Dorn <matt.dorn@gmail.com>) Details ------- 1. Packaging Python for Debian/Ubuntu Tal Liron <tal.liron@threecrickets.com> Introduction to the whole Debian distribution system, which is actually pretty neat, and show you how to push your Python app into a Personal Package Archive (PPA) on Launchpad, which is not neat at all and in fact is an undocumented abyss teeming with poisonous, man-eating crocodiles. I'll save you from the crocodiles. 2. REST-ful Web apps with Django Piston Matt Dorn <matt.dorn@gmail.com> A common complaint about Django, the leading Python web application framework, is that it doesn't make writing REST APIs easy enough. In fact the paradigm for a typical Django application involves views which map to HTML page templates. With end users increasingly expecting rich interfaces with the responsiveness of a desktop application, this paradigm is being superseded. Fortunately a third-party Django application called Piston fills the gap. Django/Piston can be combined with the Ext JS JavaScript framework and widget set to create attractive, responsive Web applications, and this talk will show you how. Location -------- Sully's House Tap Room and Grill 1501 N Dayton Street Chicago, IL 60642 (773) 244-1234 http://www.sullyshouse.com At the corner of Blackhawk and Dayton, (2) Blocks from the North & Clybourn Red Line stop. Free street parking available. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1501+N+Dayton+Street+Chicago,+IL+60642 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: <http://chipy.org> ChiPy Mailing List: <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago> Python website: <http://python.org> -- Carl K