Mailman 3 December 2010 - python-uk

Introducing CKAN (Open Knowledge Foundation)
by James Gardner Dec. 25, 2010

Dec. 25, 2010

Hi all, For those of you who haven't heard about the Open Knowledge Foundation we are a not-for-profit promoting open knowledge: that's any kind of information - sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata - that can be freely used, reused, and redistributed [1] and we rely heavily on Python for a lot of our work. One of our key products is called CKAN [2]. It's an open source, web-based data catalogue written in Pylons, SQLAlchemy and Genshi which is used by various organisations, governments and councils around the world to help them organise and share data with the public. Most notably it powers the UK government's http://data.gov.uk site which you may have seen in the news when the UK government released details of all department's spending over £25,000 [3]. CKAN is rapidly becoming very popular so we are looking for more people who are passionate about open knowledge to join our team. Although we do have voluntary contributors we are particularly interested in hiring expert Python web developers (probably as contractors and based in London if possible) so I wanted to draw your attention to the links below in case you are interested: http://www.python.org/community/jobs/index.html?#open-knowledge-foundation-… http://blog.ckan.org/2010/12/16/python-web-expert-jobs/ Beyond that it would just be nice to connect with other people on this list who are interested in open data and Python so do get in touch with me (on or off list) if this is your sort of thing. Happy Christmas all, James Personal blog: http://jimmyg.org/blog [1] The Open Knowledge Foundation: http://okfn.org [2] CKAN developer site http://ckan.org and catalogue: http://ckan.net [3] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11795313

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Tell us what you did with Python this year....
by Andy Robinson Dec. 22, 2010

Dec. 22, 2010

As an attempt to generate some content and balance out the "jobs" discussion.... Why don't a few people here tell us what they got up to this year? Neat projects at work, things you learned about Python in 2010, things you've been playing with.... I'm having a mad day but will try to post mine tonight or tomorrow... - Andy

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Re: [python-uk] Tell us what you did with python this year
by greg nwosu Dec. 22, 2010

Dec. 22, 2010

I have had a number of python projects, my happiest one was one that scraped government websites for jobs and then applied for those with semi fitting criteria. I was unemployed at the time with unemployment insurance but my insurers wanted proof that I'd been looking. 24 hours hacking and 1 cron job later , I had a script that scraped a government website for jobs, applied for jobs via email , saved applied for jobs in a Django database (so I couldnt apply twice) and sent a monthly report to my insurer. Bingo, paid holiday for a year. Created a couple of Django simple Django websites. Built a python robot for Google wave, that did the background research for finding references (http://vimeo.com/5772930) for the document you are collaboratively typing , only that my robot did legal research screen scraper robot to spam gumtree with my girlfriends flat that she was trying to advertise, turned out to be 8 times as good as the estate agents she was paying currently playing a bit with NLTK, Twisted and using mechanize to scrape facebook for nefarious reasons, im getting into functional programming recently have the ephinany that if I want to write a functional screen scraper I must view the mechanize.Browser as data! future plans are to use twisted and/or google app engine to massively parallelize my scraper Also got involved with planning the python dojos , but so far have been a no show to every single one *cringe* Greg

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urllib latency
by Matt Hamilton Dec. 21, 2010

Dec. 21, 2010

Ok, here's a non job related post... Anyone know why urllib.urlopen() can be so much slower than using ab to do the same thing? I seem to be getting an extra 100ms latency on a simple HTTP GET request of a static, small image. e.g. >>> for x in range(10): ... t1 = time(); data = urlopen('http://example.com/kb-brain.png').read(); t2=time(); print t2-t1 ... 0.12966299057 0.131743907928 0.303734064102 0.136001110077 0.136011838913 0.13859796524 0.13979101181 0.145252943039 0.145727872849 0.150994062424 versus, on the same machine: dhcp90:funkload netsight$ ab -n10 -c1 http://example.com/kb-brain.png ... Concurrency Level: 1 Time taken for tests: 0.309 seconds Complete requests: 10 Failed requests: 0 Write errors: 0 Total transferred: 31870 bytes HTML transferred: 28990 bytes Requests per second: 32.32 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 30.942 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 30.942 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 100.59 [Kbytes/sec] received ... I've tried it repeatedly and get consistent results. The server under test is a cluster of Plone instances behind haproxy. The client and server are connected via 100Mbit fairly lightly loaded network. I've tried taking the read() part out, still the same... I've tried using urllib2 and still pretty much the same. -Matt -- Matt Hamilton matth(a)netsight.co.uk Netsight Internet Solutions, Ltd. Business Vision on the Internet http://www.netsight.co.uk +44 (0)117 9090901 Web Design | Zope/Plone Development and Consulting | Co-location | Hosting

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More (nearly OT) Jobs
by Doug Winter Dec. 21, 2010

Dec. 21, 2010

These aren't really off topic since we do everything in Python, so a lot of Python is involved. They aren't coder jobs though ;) We're looking for SysAdmins: http://www.isotoma.com/vacancies/system-administrators And we're looking for a Head of QA: http://www.isotoma.com/vacancies/head-of-quality-assurance All based oop north here in lovely York. If you, or anyone you know, would like to apply or to chat about them then just drop me an email. Cheers, Doug. -- Telephone: +44 1904 567330, Mobile: +44 7879 423002 Switchboard: +44 1904 567349, Fax: +44 20 79006980 Post: Tower House, Fishergate, York, YO10 4UA, UK Registered in England. Company No 5171172. VAT GB843570325. Regd Office: 3&4 Park Court, Riccall Road, Escrick, York, YO19 6ED

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OT: Looking for an iPhone dev
by Rami Chowdhury Dec. 20, 2010

Dec. 20, 2010

Hey everyone, I know this isn't the forum for this, but I'm looking for an iPhone dev for a potential startup opportunity -- if anyone could give me tips on where to find one, I'd really appreciate it. Cheers, Rami ---- Rami Chowdhury "A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it." -- Rabindranath Tagore +44-7581-430-517 / +88-01819-245544 /+1-408-597-7068

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AUTO: David J Pearson Is Away On Holiday (returning 05/01/2011)
by David J Pearson Dec. 20, 2010

Dec. 20, 2010

I am out of the office until 05/01/2011. I am currently away on holiday over the Christmas period. I will read / respond to your email when I return. If you need to contact me urgently, please send SMS text message to my mobile phone (number on my bluepages record). Thanks David J Pearson MBCS CITP CEng MIET Technical Staff Member Solution Architect, Lotus Software Services - NE IOT IBM Lotus Symphony Services Technical Lead Lotus Software, IBM United Kingdom Ltd Mailto:David_J_Pearson@uk.ibm.com Note: This is an automated response to your message "python-uk Digest, Vol 88, Issue 13" sent on 20/12/10 8:05:43. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

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London Python Roles
by Richard Catley Dec. 17, 2010

Dec. 17, 2010

Dear all I'm looking for two permanent Python/Django developers to join a high profile incubated startup in London. You will have strong development skills and be happy to work with a very dedicated technical team. You will need to be London based. Salary is negotiable depending on experience but this is a great opportunity to work at the leading edge of social media. I'm more than happy to send you the full details once contact has been made. We have interview slots available so please get in touch. Kind regards Richard Richard Catley Fuel Recruitment 17, Waterloo Place Warwick Street Leamington Spa Warwickshire CV32 5LA Tel: 08712 007 007 Fax: 08712 007 008 Web: http://www.fuelrecruitment.co.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardcatley Please click on the following link if you would like to comment on the service you have received: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/fuelquicklink_survey This electronic message contains information from Fuel Recruitment Ltd. which may be privileged and confidential. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual(s) or entity named above. If you are not the addressee of this email, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error please e-mail the author by replying to this message and delete the material from your computer. While reasonable precautions have been taken to ensure no viruses are present in this e-mail, you are responsible for carrying out your own virus checks and Fuel Recruitment Ltd. does not accept any responsibility for loss or damage thereby arising. Fuel Recruitment is a company registered in England & Wales with Company Number 04677878 & VAT Registration 812 1032 93

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(Off topic) Recommended graphic designers?
by Mike Pentney Dec. 14, 2010

Dec. 14, 2010

Dear Pythonistas, Apologies for the off-topic posting, but can anyone recommend a (preferably UK based) graphics design shop to provide a bit of sparkle for various django webapps I'm developing? I don't need anything fancy (i.e. Javascript) - just some nice images, fonts and colours, but it would be useful if they knew a bit about django templates as well as css. It's for some weekend projects so my budget is not infinite, but it's not zero either :-) Please reply off-list to me at mike.pentney(a)physics.org to keep the noise on this list to a minimum... Many thanks, Mike.

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AUTO: David J Pearson Has Limited Access To Mail (returning 05/01/2011)
by David J Pearson Dec. 13, 2010

Dec. 13, 2010

I am out of the office until 05/01/2011. I am currently travelling and will also be away on holiday over the Christmas period. I will read / respond to your email as soon as I can - this may take several days. If you need to contact me urgently, please send SMS text message to my mobile phone (number on my bluepages record). Thanks David J Pearson MBCS CITP CEng MIET Solution Architect, Lotus Software Services - NE IOT IBM Lotus Symphony Services Technical Lead Lotus Software, IBM United Kingdom Ltd Mailto:David_J_Pearson@uk.ibm.com Note: This is an automated response to your message "python-uk Digest, Vol 88, Issue 5" sent on 13/12/10 20:48:13. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

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