Mailman 3 January 2010 - python-uk

London Code Dojo Reminder
by Nicholas Tollervey Jan. 28, 2010

Jan. 28, 2010

Folks, Just a quick reminder that the next London Python code dojo will be happening on the 4th February (a week today). Details and sign up here: http://ldnpydojo.eventwax.com/6th-london-python-code-dojo We'll continue to develop and add features to the nascent adventure game and there will be the usual free pizza and beer from 18:30 and an O'Reilly book for a lucky contributor ("Python for Unix and Linux System Administration"). As always, feedback, ideas, comments and suggestions most welcome. See you there! Nicholas.

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Next Cambridge & East Anglia Meeting: Tue 2nd Feb 2010
by Tony Ibbs Jan. 26, 2010

Jan. 26, 2010

Summarising from the CamPUG Google Group: The Cambridge and East Anglia Python Users Group will be holding another Python Code Dojo on Tuesday 2nd February. This will once again be hosted by RealVNC at their offices here: http://tinyurl.com/realvncoffices, and will start at 7.30pm. Tibs

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Python/Django issue
by Hassan Baig Jan. 25, 2010

Jan. 25, 2010

Dear Python UK Experts, I hope you're all doing great. I was wondering if you could help out in a basic query. I'm a Facebook developer and I'm facing the following problem: I have a flash file which calls up a url say http://test.com/createXML/ which is caught and used up by a python/django code and it creates and redirects to an XML. which is loaded by flash, to get values from the database. The setup works fine when outside facebook, but as soon as I put the setup in facebook, it stops loading the XML completely. Any clues? -Hassan Baig

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ANN: Next London Pyssup: Wed 20 Jan - Welcome to MMX!
by Stephen Emslie Jan. 18, 2010

Jan. 18, 2010

This month's London Pyssup will take place at the Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese on Fleet street. It's a Sam Smiths pub so should be easy on the post Christmas wallet. It has a nice vaulted cellar and plenty of atmosphere. The Pyssup is an informal monthly meetup for anyone interested in Python or programming in general. There's an open area by the downstairs bar where we can gather. Can of spam or similarly Python related items/clothing will be on display but the lack of suits should be enough of a givaway. Time: Jan 20 2010, 7pm - 11pm Venue: http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/15/1513/Ye_Olde_Cheshire_Cheese/Flee… See you there Stephen Emslie and Andy Kilner

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Developer
by Juan Alvarez Jan. 14, 2010

Jan. 14, 2010

Hello everyone, I couldn't figure out if I was allow or not to send a Python job offer over here, but here we go: We are hiring a Talented Python Developer (London, Silicon Roundabout area), innovative web start-up, nice environment, etc: More details: http://amplicate.com/jobs/ Cheers, Juan

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Code Dojo
by Nicholas Tollervey Jan. 8, 2010

Jan. 8, 2010

Folks, Last night's dojo was a lot of fun: we worked in small teams on the beginnings of a text-based adventure game. If you're interested you can see what we got up to here: http://github.com/ntoll/code-dojo/tree/master/adventure/ (I'm still waiting on the code from teams 1, 3 and 5 - nudge, nudge..!) Photos and comments have appeared on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#search?q=%23ldnpydojo There are at least three blog write-ups that I know of: http://ntoll.org/article/an-adventurous-code-dojo http://otfrom.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/5th-london-python-dojo/ http://andykilner.co.uk/2010/01/08/team-octopodes-ldnpydojo/ The next dojo will be happening on the 4th February and you can already sign up here: http://ldnpydojo.eventwax.com/6th-london-python-code-dojo We'll continue to develop and add features to the nascent adventure game and there will be the usual free pizza and beer from 18:30 and an O'Reilly book from a lucky contributor. Feedback and good ideas most welcome, Best wishes, Nicholas.

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January Code Dojo
by Nicholas Tollervey Jan. 4, 2010

Jan. 4, 2010

Folks, Just a quick reminder that the next London Python Code Dojo will be held this Thursday 7th January at 6:30 in the offices of Fry-IT (details at the end). Regarding the planning and schedule: the evening will be our first "group" dojo where pairs/trios/quartets of people work on the same problem concurrently and report back in a show and tell session to allow us to compare and contrast different solutions to the same problem (and affords us more opportunity to code-in-public). This experiment is a result of comments and suggestions at the end of the last dojo. As for the problem..? Again, based upon comments and suggestions, we'll have a white-board / post-it-note board for suggestions / up-votes during the free pizza and beer at the start. Dave (Kirby), perhaps you'd also like to give a lightning talk at the start about your suggestion for CRC? Good ideas, comments and suggestions are most welcome. Please sign up here: http://ldnpydojo.eventwax.com/5th-london-python-code-dojo/ (just so we know how much Pizza to order - thanks again Fry-IT). There will also be a Python related O'Reilly book to give away at the end. See you there! Nicholas. Address: Fry-IT Limited 503 Enterprise House 1/2 Hatfields London SE1 9PG Nearest Tubes: Waterloo Southwark Telephone: 0207 0968800 Google Map: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=1%2F2+Hatfiel…

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Code Dojo - yesterday and next year...
by Nicholas Tollervey Jan. 4, 2010

Jan. 4, 2010

Folks, It was great to see so many people at the dojo last night. I'm relieved we had enough space to fit you all in. Thanks also to Dave (ipython), Carles (OO.org Impress), Ben (Sudoku) and René (PyGame) for four excellent, entertaining and well presented talks. Well done to Dave for "winning" the O'Reilly book and thanks Fry-IT for the pizza and beer. For those of you who were not able to make it or would like to see what we got up to - and have a Google Wave account - Bruce was "waving" notes including links, references and code examples. Many thanks Bruce! You can find it here: http://3.ly/KFK Following on from the discussion afterwards about where the Dojo should go next... here's a summary of my takeaway from what was said: * Everyone liked the live coding / interactive format. * Tim, Ciarán and Bruce spoke up for *more* opportunities for attendee coding. It was pointed out that whilst the talks were great much of the appeal of the dojo format is in the opportunity for attendees (rather than speakers) to get their hands dirty with code and learn by getting feedback and observing how other developers tackle a problem. * Bruce suggested alternating talks / regular dojo - where live coding of a solution continues over several dojos until the agreed problem is solved / complete (like we did with TicTacToe). Then hold a talks dojo followed by more of the same. * Rather than rotation of pair programming (so only one person is coding at any one time), people suggested concurrent coding in smaller groups on a pre-agreed problem. I didn't catch _all_ the discussion but I'm assuming they mean an evening something like this: 1) Pizza and Beer 2) As a group we agree the problem to solve (perhaps even having a short baby-steps introduction to the problem [<20mins]) 3) Depending on the total numbers, split into "huddles" of 3-5 participants and attempt to solve the problem in the usual rotation or pair programming method. 4) A deadline is set after which each group is asked to show-and-tell what they did so we can do a compare/contrast on the different approaches. 5) Pub :-) * DATES: So we don't have any further clashes - we bagsy the Thursday in the first week of every month for our meeting. For next year, this means the Dojo will meet on the following dates: 7th January 4th February 4th March 1st April (!) <- we must do something appropriate for this one - suggestions please. 6th May 1st June 1st July (Europython happening 17th-24th July) August (Summer School Holiday!) 2nd September 7th October 4th November 2nd December * As promised, I've created a wiki (PBWiki - it's free and feature-ful) where we can organise future talks. It's publicly readable and you'll need to pester me for edit rights from the wiki's front page... I'll immediately approve you as an admin so you can approve others. Obviously, this is so we don't get inundated with spam. The URL is here: http://pythondojo.pbworks.com/FrontPage As always, comments, suggestions and ideas most welcome. Best wishes, Nicholas.

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