Mailman 3 February 2012 - python-uk

Announcing the next London Python Code Dojo
by Nicholas H.Tollervey Feb. 24, 2012

Feb. 24, 2012

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Folks, The next London Python Code Dojo will take place in a week's time on Thursday 1st March from 6:30pm. We'll be meeting at the offices of Fry-IT (the usual location) and will start with an hour of pizza, beer and general socialising (thanks Fry-IT). Coding to follow with an opportunity to win an O'Reilly book at the end. Sign up here: http://ldnpydojo.eventwax.com/london-python-code-dojo-season-3-episode-7 Tickets are usually fully booked within hours so be sure to be quick! See you there, Nicholas. @ntoll. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPRfY6AAoJEP0qBPaYQbb6k5AH/2tfDTdQO87r4BY2iGAHyFXc 2B7A39DZFhSC/3Uf4cpYQks3P0KgHU4sq+0X+azJsCXjRoyIm5HF+X1DhLXTo0cb S2ZeB2SlevshemsLih26QbNMJaIPfU3i7mehJnqNuvupaeg/QQkg1a11MRIDwJ34 1SAGVRIIkihQGLG8SYjtXz15At/Gces7AZdDAIvas0Y9vS46X8b11UV0xRHen5pl UdLfLEd7K5b5HbEubnQcktXbo3LlWhnIsOZNaIgFk9uCxtGkT7z8Gc9K4vQBcamC JEvX+hE2ddDpIydFqdh09cjrDFcoCk9xlbLqlny/CiovTQyL25a0PBf23KDEtDg= =b//8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Next CamPUG meeting: Tuesday 6th March
by Tony Ibbs Feb. 22, 2012

Feb. 22, 2012

The next meeting will be a talks meeting, Tuesday 6th March, 7.30pm at RealVNC (http://tinyurl.com/realvncoffices). We normally stop about 9.30pm, and go on to the pub. As normal, any offers of talks (anything from 5 minutes to the full two hours is acceptable) would be gratefully received. After discussion at the last meeting, I'm considering whether the meeting after that should be a Questions and Answers meeting, where people can bring along things they'd like advise on, or topics they would like explaining, or just tips on things they've found useful. Other people's reactions would be welcome! Meetings after that should be: * Tuesday 3rd April, Q&A, coding tips, etc. * Tuesday 1st May, talks again * Tuesday 5th June Tibs

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London Python dojo, January: Team 4 game of life
by S Walker Feb. 11, 2012

Feb. 11, 2012

Slightly delayed, but both the one we (Team 4) built during the session, and one I hacked together using pygame over the last couple of weekends are included (in $base/dojo and $base/new respectively). Said hacked together approach was inspired by one (or more?) of the other teams who used sets, etc. https://bitbucket.org/maddagaska/pygol/overview I think there was a link up to post the code to, but I've since lost it, so uploaded it here. S

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Game of Life / TDD ideas
by David Read Feb. 7, 2012

Feb. 7, 2012

Those of us at last week's London Python Dojo had fun hacking together little animated Game of Life simulators. My team's data model was based on a set of the alive cells, rather than the world as an array / list of lists, and its a choice I pushed for having recently read an extremely relevant blog post: http://emilybache.blogspot.com/2011/12/global-day-of-code-retreat.html I mentioned it to some of the people in the pub afterwards and wondered if the rest of you would be interested. Emily r<http://emilybache.blogspot.com/2011/12/global-day-of-code-retreat.html>uns Python Dojos in Gothenburg and provides "clean code" training for companies, so practises doing problems like Game of Life time after time. She aims for clarity / pythonic-ness and practising different coding methods to get high quality. I was particularly interested to watch her screen cast https://s3.amazonaws.com/ryanbigg_screencasts/Game+of+Life+-+Full.mov where she goes through her practised version of Game of Life whilst demonstrating several of the latest ideas in the TDD world. It's quite different to most people's ways of thinking / coding, and perhaps won't be to everyone's tastes, but it's definitely food for thought! Dave

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Re: [python-uk] Future Dojo idea ... randomised trials
by Carl Reynolds Feb. 7, 2012

Feb. 7, 2012

I'm happy to provide informal advise on trial design Power calculations are the starting point for proper RCTs... Michael Grazebrook <michael(a)grazebrook.com> wrote: >It would be amusing to do a randomised trial, well-designed, and submit >the results to some prestigious journal. > >Of course we'd probably be turned down. But then again, I bet there are >very few academic studies based on the use of hardened professionals >like us. > >Or even ... we could look for papers published by London academics in >this area, and work with them to design an experiment which would be >fun, informative, and have a realistic chance of being published. > >Is there an academic amongst us who can advise? > > >On Feb 7, 2012 15:59 "Jonathan Hartley" <tartley(a)tartley.com> wrote: > >> People are always banging on about how programming lacks scientific >> rigour when it comes to evaluating common practice. >> >> Is TDD *always* faster? >> <http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2012/01/11/Flipping-the-Bit.html> >> >> Is it *ever* faster? >> <http://www.davewsmith.com/blog/2009/proof-that-tdd-slows-projects-dow >> n> >> >> Who knows? Fortunately, we have the tools to answer the question once >> and for all. We, at the London Dojo, could run a randomised trial: >> <http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/30/run-your-own-scie >> ntific-trials> >> >> I'm curious what results we'd get if we randomly made some Dojo teams >> use TDD for the assignment, and others not. Our usual time contraints >> result in a mad scramble for the finish line. Would TDD make the task >> harder, or easier? Would the results be more functional, or less? >> >> Perhaps it doesn't make sense: A team assigned to do TDD might only >> have >> members who were not practiced in it. But I can't help but wonder what >> results it would produce. Is anyone else curious? >> >> Jonathan >> >_______________________________________________ >python-uk mailing list >python-uk(a)python.org >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

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The London Python scene and http://londonpython.org.uk/
by Tim Golden Feb. 7, 2012

Feb. 7, 2012

There's been a burst of activity recently by the team responsible for the London Python Dojo. If you follow Twitter, you may have seen that the Dojo now has its own Twitter account: https://twitter.com/#!/ldnpydojo which I encourage you to follow for news and updates on the Dojo. We've also created a GitHub account: https://github.com/ldnpydojo (can you see a trend emerging?) through which we hope to gather the code that the Dojo teams generate. We're not yet sure how it's going to work, but we've already added some of the code from last week's Game of Life challenge: https://github.com/ldnpydojo/game-of-life We have *also* registered a domain called -- guess what? http://ldnpydojo.org.uk which at present shows the WF holding page but which will probably end up being a fairly static WordPress site to be able to point people towards when talking about the Dojo. In addition, I've taken over the maintenance of the londonpython.org.uk domain. This was set up by Remi "WebFaction" Delon, early in that organisation's life. (It's on server web3 which gives you some idea). It was managed by Menno Smits, and Simon Brunning hosted an "announce" blog there, which he stopped maintaining when he stopped organising Python meetups. The front page was and is a Planet aggregator for (loosely) London-based Python people. It's kept running on autopilot and all I've done for now is to tidy it up slightly, removing feeds which were non-existent or fairly obviously defunct. At present I have no very clear plans for the domain: I don't want to commit to a huge amount of ongoing maintenance; I just wanted to have the possibility of a central place for London Python activity. There's talk of a second London meetup and I believe there are occasional other events. I'd be quite happy to keep some kind of calendar going here if it seems useful. If anyone wants to have a blog feed added to the Planet, or indeed to have one removed, please let me know by private email and I'll see what I can do. Otherwise, stay tuned. TJG

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Contract Python Developer Job - London
by Ben Corke Feb. 6, 2012

Feb. 6, 2012

Hi, We looking for an experienced Python / Django Developer for a 6-8 week project based here in Chiswick, London. You will be working on a project with a house hold brand adding new functionality to an existing social / collaborative application deployed on Django. For further information please send your CV including a list of recent projects to Ben Corke on digital(a)adrem.uk.com or call +44 (020) 7562 8282 Cheers Ben Corke

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londonpython.org.uk
by Tim Golden Feb. 6, 2012

Feb. 6, 2012

http://londonpython.org.uk Does anyone currently maintain this? I think it was set up by Remi Delon (of Webfaction fame) in the days when Simon used to organise Python meetups in the City, but I don't have any contact details for him. If you are or if you know who looks after it currently could you drop me a line, please? Thanks TJG

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saturday london python dojos?
by Alec Battles Feb. 2, 2012

Feb. 2, 2012

i've been to the london python dojo once. i quite liked it. but weekday evenings are not exactly the best time for me. am i the only one in this situation? and would anyone else be interested in this?

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