Mailman 3 April 2013 - python-uk

hexagonal Django
by Jonathan Hartley Sept. 11, 2014

Sept. 11, 2014

The last few weeks I've been thinking about the architectural pattern known as Clean, Onion, Hexagonal, or Ports'n'Adaptors <http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2012/08/13/the-clean-architecture.html> (http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2012/08/13/the-clean-architecture.html). I'm curious if many people are applying it in the Django world? I haven't, yet, but I'm thinking of refactoring a vertical slice of our monster Django app into this style, and I'd love to hear if you think it's crazy / brilliant / obvious / old-hat, etc. Jonathan -- Jonathan Hartley tartley(a)tartley.com http://tartley.com Made of meat. +44 7737 062 225 twitter/skype: tartley

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Re: [python-uk] Don't be afraid to commit - a free Python/Django workshop (Cardiff)
by craig astill July 4, 2014

July 4, 2014

I would be interested in this. craig > A hands-on workshop for Python/Django developers who would like to > contribute > more to the projects they use, but need more grounding in some of the tools > required. > > What's in it for you > ==================== > > As well as helping to put you in a position to commit successfully to > collaborative projects, the workshop's emphasis on using virtualenv/pip and > git will help you manage your own work in a more streamlined and efficient > way. > > The automate testing tutorial - the most substantial component of the > workshop > - will help you develop your software faster, better and more easily. > > What we'll cover > ================ > > The workshop will take participants through the complete cycle of > identifying > a simple issue in a Django or Python project, writing a patch with tests > and > documentation, and submitting it. > > The workshop will take you through the use of: > > * virtualenv and pip > * git (and GitHub) > * running and writing tests for Python applications > * writing and building documentation using Sphinx > * submitting a pull request > > A workbook and reference guide will be provided to support the workshop. > > What you need to know > ===================== > > The workshop is open to anyone, but places will be limited. > > Date: a weekday morning or afternoon in February or March 2012 > Venue: Cardiff University > Attendance fee: none > > Let me know if you'd like to attend! > > Daniele >

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Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science
by eliswilson＠hushmail.com May 1, 2013

May 1, 2013

Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science We are researchers from different parts of the world and conducted a study on the world’s biggest bogus computer science conference WORLDCOMP http://sites.google.com/site/worlddump1 organized by Prof. Hamid Arabnia from University of Georgia, USA. We submitted a fake paper to WORLDCOMP 2011 and again (the same paper with a modified title) to WORLDCOMP 2012. This paper had numerous fundamental mistakes. Sample statements from that paper include: (1). Binary logic is fuzzy logic and vice versa (2). Pascal developed fuzzy logic (3). Object oriented languages do not exhibit any polymorphism or inheritance (4). TCP and IP are synonyms and are part of OSI model (5). Distributed systems deal with only one computer (6). Laptop is an example for a super computer (7). Operating system is an example for computer hardware Also, our paper did not express any conceptual meaning. However, it was accepted both the times without any modifications (and without any reviews) and we were invited to submit the final paper and a payment of $500+ fee to present the paper. We decided to use the fee for better purposes than making Prof. Hamid Arabnia richer. After that, we received few reminders from WORLDCOMP to pay the fee but we never responded. This fake paper is different from the two fake papers already published (see https://sites.google.com/site/worlddump4 for details) in WORLDCOMP. We MUST say that you should look at the above website if you have any thoughts of participating in WORLDCOMP. DBLP and other indexing agencies have stopped indexing WORLDCOMP’s proceedings since 2011 due to its fakeness. See http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icai/index.html for of one of the conferences of WORLDCOMP and notice that there is no listing after 2010. See Section 2 of http://sites.google.com/site/dumpconf for comments from well-known researchers about WORLDCOMP. The status of your WORLDCOMP papers can be changed from scientific to other (i.e., junk or non-technical) at any time. Better not to have a paper than having it in WORLDCOMP and spoil the resume and peace of mind forever! Our study revealed that WORLDCOMP is money making business, using University of Georgia mask, for Prof. Hamid Arabnia. He is throwing out a small chunk of that money (around 20 dollars per paper published in WORLDCOMP’s proceedings) to his puppet (Mr. Ashu Solo or A.M.G. Solo) who publicizes WORLDCOMP and also defends it at various forums, using fake/anonymous names. The puppet uses fake names and defames other conferences to divert traffic to WORLDCOMP. He also makes anonymous phone calls and threatens the critiques of WORLDCOMP (See Item 7 of Section 5 of above website). That is, the puppet does all his best to get a maximum number of papers published at WORLDCOMP to get more money into his (and Prof. Hamid Arabnia’s) pockets. Prof. Hamid Arabnia makes a lot of tricks. For example, he appeared in a newspaper to fool the public, claiming him a victim of cyber-attack (see Item 8 in Section 5 of above website). Monte Carlo Resort (the venue of WORLDCOMP for more than 10 years, until 2012) has refused to provide the venue for WORLDCOMP’13 because of the fears of their image being tarnished due to WORLDCOMP’s fraudulent activities. That is why WORLDCOMP’13 is taking place at a different resort. WORLDCOMP will not be held after 2013. The draft paper submission deadline is over but still there are no committee members, no reviewers, and there is no conference Chairman. The only contact details available on WORLDCOMP’s website is just an email address! We ask Prof. Hamid Arabnia to publish all reviews for all the papers (after blocking identifiable details) since 2000 conference. Reveal the names and affiliations of all the reviewers (for each year) and how many papers each reviewer had reviewed on average. We also ask him to look at the Open Challenge (Section 6) at https://sites.google.com/site/moneycomp1 and respond if he has any professional values. Sorry for posting to multiple lists. Spreading the word is the only way to stop this bogus conference. Please forward this message to other mailing lists and people. We are shocked with Prof. Hamid Arabnia and his puppet’s activities at http://worldcomp-fake-bogus.blogspot.com Search Google using the keyword worldcomp fake for additional links.

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West. Yorks Python Group - Thurs. 9 May - Tornado
by Peter Russell April 30, 2013

April 30, 2013

== West Yorkshire Python User Group Meeting - Thurs. 9 May == = Invited Talk: Wes Mason - Stormy Webber - Tornado for everyone = This month we have another invited guest speaker! = About the Talk = An introductory talk to building fast non-blocking async web services with Tornado, especially relevant to Django, Flask, bottle, web.py, Pyramid, Zope, Gevent, Twisted and every other web (or not) dev interested in learning what makes Tornado special for such tasks. This will be especially relevant to Django, Flask, bottle, web.py, Pyramid, Zope, Gevent, Twisted and every other web (or not) dev interested in learning what makes Tornado special for such tasks. Bonus: advanced tips and tricks for migrating from current systems and working with technologies such as WebSockets and Server Sent Events in Tornado. Bonus bonus: Tornado 3 and Python 3.4 style futures for less confusing async. = About the Speaker = Wes is a polyglot developer with over 15 years of experience programming large scale networked applications. He currently works as a product engineer for Server Density, curates PHP Weekly from his sofa, releases lots of open source goodness via the Internets, and lives in Yorkshire, England with wife and mischievous 2 year old son. Wes is @1stvamp on Twitter. = Date and Time = Thursday 11 April. Talk at 7.30. The venue will be open from about 6.30. We will be finished by 9, and we will be going to the pub afterwards. = Location = We will be meeting at the offices of The Test People: Floor 3 Albion Court Albion Place Leeds West Yorkshire, LS1 6JL You will need to call Peter on 07763570860 for access, as we can't hear the buzzer at the door. = About the Group = The West Yorkshire Python User Group (WYPy) have been meeting monthly since 2007. Our meetings are free, and usually include at least one talk, as well as a trip to the pub. Our website is at http://wypy.org.uk . We discuss our meetings on the Python Yorkshire and Humberside Google Group http://groups.google.com/group/python-yorks-humber/ and you can also follow us on Twitter at @WYPython.

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REPOST: Python developer / Bank of America - Reconciliations Team, Canary Wharf
by Fadhley, Salim April 30, 2013

April 30, 2013

Just a reminder - My team still have vacancies for the role that I mentioned a fortnight ago. In case you are wondering, we have roles for both permanent & contractors. Bank of America, Reconciliations Team (Canary Wharf, London, UK) ================================================================ Job Description: ================ We are currently recruiting Python developers to join the Quartz Reconciliations team. Quartz is a company-wide project to consolidate business systems into a single Python-based platform. Quartz provides grid-computing, storage, a consistent developer environment, and financial/UI APIs. The Reconciliations team is responsible for building tools which help teams within the organization improve the quality and consistency of data across a large number of financial systems. We are looking for candidates with the aptitude to grapple with the complexity of the ever-growing Quartz platform. We are looking for experienced Python developers who can act as Python mentors to other developers and provide leadership in design, development, testing and delivery of Python code. Successful candidates will play a role in the full development cycle of our products, working within an Agile (Scrum) development process. Our primary development language is Python, however skills in other technologies such as relational and document-oriented databases may be beneficial. We are interested in meeting candidates from all backgrounds (not just finance), with a broad technological knowledge. We value knowledge in aspects of computing and technology which do not have a direct application on our project. Requirements ============ * Previous experience as a senior Python developer * Fluency in the Python language + Standard libraries * Experience in test-driven development Contact Info: ============= * Contact: Salim Fadhley / Stephen Brown * E-mail contact: salim.fadhley(a)baml.com / stephen.d.brown(a)baml.com * Other Contact Info: t. 0207 9951134 / 0207 9961845 * No telecommuting * No headhunters! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message, and any attachments, is for the intended recipient(s) only, may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or proprietary and subject to important terms and conditions available at http://www.bankofamerica.com/emaildisclaimer. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message.

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EC1 Pyb Lunch
by Peter Inglesby April 29, 2013

April 29, 2013

With apologies to those who don't live/work London... A handful of us are meeting for a pub lunch somewhere off the Clerkenwell Road next Tuesday at 1pm. If you'd like to join us, drop me a line and I'll book a table. Peter.

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Announcing the next London Python Code Dojo - 2nd May at The Guardian
by Nicholas H.Tollervey April 25, 2013

April 25, 2013

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Next Cambridge meeting: Tue 7th May 2013
by Tony Ibbs April 24, 2013

April 24, 2013

From the CamPUG google group: The next meeting will be Tuesday 7th Mayl, 7.30pm at RealVNC (http://tinyurl.com/realvncoffices). We normally stop about 9.30pm, and go on to the pub. This will be a talks meeting, so if anyone has a talk to offer (anything from a few minutes to the full meeting), then please let us know. Meetings after that should be: • Tuesday 4th June, another coding/doing stuff meeting • Tuesday 2nd July, another talks meeting • Tuesday 6th August, another doing stuff meeting Tibs

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TLPG Tech Talks: Videos are up
by Kris Saxton April 19, 2013

April 19, 2013

Thanks to everyone who attended last night's The London Python Group: Tech Talks. Attendance was great (50-60) as were the questions from the audience. Videos are available here: http://skillsmatter.com/event/java-jee/what-are-you-doing-with-python -- Kris Saxton e: kris(a)automationlogic.com t: @KrisSaxton

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Passionate hackers wanted at Tangent Labs, London
by David Winterbottom April 19, 2013

April 19, 2013

Hello everyone, another recruitment email here. I work at Tangent Labs, the technical department of TangentSnowball, an agency on Great Portland Street. We have a team of around 25 developers doing mainly Python and Django. I reckon we have one of the largest teams of Django developers in London. If you have attended DJUGL or the London Python Dojo, you'll have met Tangent developers. Anyway, we have lots of impending projects and are looking for 3 more developers to join. We're looking for permanent employees to work in our London office. Our typical stack is Django with Postgres, Celery, RabbitMQ and Solr. We also use Mongo, ZeroMQ, Redis etc where appropriate. Our clients (if you care about this kind of thing) include the Labour party, SAP, Tata, Carlsberg, PepsiCo. We use Github and open-source lots of our stuff. https://github.com/tangentlabs We maintain django-oscar, a BSD-licensed e-commerce framework for Django: https://github.com/tangentlabs/django-oscar There's a more details description on Hacker Jobs UK if you're interested: http://hackerjobs.co.uk/jobs/2013/4/17/tangent-labs-passionate-python-hacker Email recruitment(a)tangentlabs.co.uk if you want to apply or have any questions. -- *David Winterbottom* Head of Programming Tangent Labs 84-86 Great Portland Street London W1W 7NR England, UK

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