Mailman 3 August 2014 - 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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Next CamPUG meeting: Tue 2nd Sep 2014
by Tony Ibbs Aug. 29, 2014

Aug. 29, 2014

From our Google group: The next meeting will be Tuesday 2nd September, 7.30pm at RealVNC (http://goo.gl/maps/ktqpS). We normally stop about 9.30pm, and go on to the pub. This will be a talks meeting, so bring a talk, a lightning talk, something you'd like to talk about, or just your favourite bit of Python news. Apologies for the short notice - the world science fiction convention rather fried my brain for a while there. I've been at EuroSciPy 2014 in Cambridge today, and will be again tomorrow, so should have stuff to report on from that (it's very good so far), and have ideas for a couple of lightning talks for PyConUK (Fri 19th .. Sun 21 September, not including the tutorials on the Monday) that I might want to practice, if I've had time to put anything together. Meetings after that will be: • Tuesday 7th October - a miscellaneous meeting, possibly talking about things learnt and fun had at PyConUK • Tuesday 4th November, a talks meeting • Tuesday 2nd December - another miscellaneous meeting Tibs

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Announcing the 5th anniversary London Python Code Dojo
by Nicholas H.Tollervey Aug. 28, 2014

Aug. 28, 2014

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, The next dojo is happening on Thursday 4th September at the offices of Fry-IT. Full details and booking information can be found here: http://ldnpydojo.eventwax.com/london-python-code-dojo-season-7-episode-1 It'll be our fifth anniversary. Blimey. See you there and remember to book early since tickets sell out fast..! All the best, Nicholas. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJT/wArAAoJEP0qBPaYQbb6Dz4H/0uuts3Xeqk7wD04Pu9ljWT6 yJ/rqZBKr5KdbMWETbA5psGg+thsBKjFxli42DqodTPGx/+UyvJyKwwpAL2dSCzG iA0HEu113h5QPEY+CuS7BBJq1dSLtr6ITe+YkGdcLD8JmQ88i1+DsaPSC8TUzqjG VcBppBA4C7MevLNmGZupM2vWUgbrKm9Qn2ueWQMtIFWTJOFOwTPSDzYFKQIonNVA Ir5t7/yc8rke3bzOqB/+k3sKv7WeB1SUgZPPYK/5MW1h16vxPKh4dXKcHiVkxf9R +YQT6Pvob3YXR6sD4nid41lOo8yICePhy1klhLytRG3eWomKcCh4a7BQUFOQDLA= =oseW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Dojo lightning talks
by Nicholas H.Tollervey Aug. 28, 2014

Aug. 28, 2014

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, We have space for three 5 minute lightning talks at next week's dojo. If you have something to say or want to present - please drop me a line. All the best, N. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJT/wj6AAoJEP0qBPaYQbb6jbMH/i/mNEHW2YdTJxQeXlB2sUbG Ap0P91fj/v58dFNk/JkArFKVNMl62l7tuUFGf+EK61TMV/mtv/G/VtLeKBjf5xSv 7ojUj2dpnxTRhp/St8BTl8g6jTg2aO7/1uOfric4xRmqEiuWYueRIgCLmgV9qS5e YI6eBgXXfSEHeMmfvsJizME2V74CGiKioVP71CplWBQyKoTQXKO7a4L3eR+HbtUJ VdrtD3z1wZZ0HWL//eXScLMIRjBNn7K5ZiKUpeX1ugrQipYn2e6C+qZBFnt+X/As PK5UXxU6X0+KsG7i5uxYLueyTYNNbkubUYfkvRhopkXvzhRWfMelQ/2cAqU1cqI= =DwUb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Fwd] Introducing our Keynotes - PyCon Ireland 2014
by Vicky Twomey-Lee - Python Ireland Aug. 28, 2014

Aug. 28, 2014

Wowsa, check out the keynote speakers for PyCon Ireland 2014. There are tickets still available <http://python.ie/pycon/>. Do pass this along to other scientists, researchers, analysts, animation, SFX, mathematicians, QA, those who are into data, Open Source, those in the finance field, etc. It's not just for programmers. And don't forget, Django Girls Dublin will be happening on Monday 13th October. For info about other sprints on 13th & 14th, see schedule <http://python.ie/pycon/2014/schedule/>. If you have any questions, ping pycon(a)python.ie. Cheers, /// Vicky Twomey-Lee (PyLadies Dublin <https://twitter.com/pyladiesdub> Founder) Python Ireland <http://python.ie/> Treasurer EuroPython Society <https://ep2012.europython.eu/blog/2012/07/08/change-board-europython-society> PSF member <http://pyfound.blogspot.ie/2012/08/welcome-new-psf-members.html> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Diarmuid Bourke Date: Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 9:32 PM Subject: Introducing our Keynotes - PyCon Ireland 2014 To: pythonireland(a)googlegroups.com The PyCon Ireland organising team are delighted introduce all of our keynote speakers for PyCon Ireland this October 11th/12th. We have a great selection of speakers, and a very fascinating range of topics being covered this year. If you (or someone you know) still haven't picked up a ticket for PyCon yet, you still have time, and can get them at http://python.ie/pycon for EUR70. If you are a student, the cost is just EUR40. The ticket includes entry to the main conference on Saturday and Sunday, Breakfast, Lunch and a break on both days. If you are planning on attending the sprints on the Monday and Tuesday, there is separate free registration for this on http://python.ie/pycon/2014/sprints/ so we know the number of people to expect. *Remember buy your ticket early*, as we expect to sell out again this year. And now, here are the details of our Keynotes! Check http://lanyrd.com/2014/pyconie/ for updates. *"The Real Unsolved Problems in Data Science**"* by * Ian Ozsvald* *Data Science was described as "The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century" by the Harvard Business Review. Behind the glitter of the Big Data marketing wave lies a raft of issues that are hard, important and decidedly unsexy - if they're solved then statisticians and engineers can apply their organisations' data to solve high value problems.* *Having worked, consulted and trained in the field for 15 years I'll highlight the gritty problems and propose ways for Pythonistas to tackle and solve these issues to keep Python as the go-to language for practical data science work.* *"Python and the Financial Industry"* by * Dr. Yves J. Hilpisch* *To be announced...* *"Building the Medieval Universe in 7 Easy Steps with Scientific Python**"* by * Brandon Rhodes* *Ancient scientists decided not want to wait around for Python to be invented, but went ahead and built a model of the universe using more primitive means of calculation. But today we can finally bring their work up to date! By applying data analysis and in-browser visualization to the best and most accurate modern astronomical data, we will rebuild the ancient and medieval model of the universe — from the orbit of the Moon all the way up to the highest heaven. In the process we will see how vector math, statistical solvers, plotting libraries, and animation can all be brought together inside of the IPython Notebook.* *"Becoming a Better programmer"* by * Harald Armin Massa* *You have selected the best possible programming language;* *you learned about object oriented design, functional paradigmas, test driven development and the Structure and interpretation of computer programs. You created you own templating engine or two.* *What else can you do? Harald did research and experimented outside computer sciences. What methods and substances are available to tune your brain for programming? This talk will describe personal experiences with various motivational, self discipline, learning and information management techniques; substances and exercises to tune your brains operating system. There will be expeditions into results from brain research. Critical judgement, pointing out snake oil and stuff that worked will be provided as well as motivating jokes.* *"Who's afraid of the big bad 3?"* by* Lennart Regebro* *Python 3 is often described in scary words, with claims like it being another language and that is is tearing the community in two etc. If you believe what some people are saying, it's slow, it's a nightmare, porting is a pain and you are gonna get eaten alive! The truth is much less frightening, and this talk will take a high level perspective of Python 3, and look at my and others experience with supporting it and tell you how you can switch to Python 3.* *"Beyond the Cathedral & Bazaar: The New Era of Open Source Cross Community Collaboration"* by *Diane Mueller* *Cloud Computing has changed everything. It has made creating, deploying and managing both open source and proprietary software simpler, more cost effective and secure, and within the reach of mere mortal humans. It is the driving force behind a series of disruptive positive transformations to Open Source community interactions. OpenSource Projects like OpenStack and OpenShift are being built with the help of numerous other Open Source technology communities; we embed our resources into other key projects to ensure each others mutual success. The interdependencies abound as technology borders blur between projects. We can no longer afford to be isolationists. New models for community development are emerging to facilitate the new realities. Our eco-systems support numerous other Open Source projects whom rely on our stability and openness to ensure their success. And in turn, users of the services we provide embed their resources into our projects contributing back, working with peers and ensuring the projects move forward in directions that enable them to ensure success. In this talk, Diane will dive into some fundamental shifts that are occurring in Open Source community development, discuss new models for facilitating effective cross-community collaboration and talk about her experiences helping bridge the divides between users, developers, and the organizations that support them.* *"Rider/coder" *by *Daniele Procida* *What's special about being a programmer? *Is* there something special about it?* *What's our relationship with non-coders, who don't understand, who will never understand, what we do?* *In this talk I consider the mysterious inner life of the coder, and the tension between programming as a skill, and programming as a vocation.* *"**To be announced"* by * Rachel Willmer* Best regards, The PyCon Ireland team Diarmuid Bourke, PyCon Ireland 2014 Chair. diarmuid(a)python.ie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" group. 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Python training courses
by Tony Ibbs Aug. 22, 2014

Aug. 22, 2014

A colleague at work has asked me if I know of any good Python training courses. He's got some C++ and Python experience (he knows about classes and inheritance, seems to be competent with dictionaries, I'd say he's beyond beginner in Python, although I'm not sure if he'd agree), and has potential approval from his boss to go on a training course if he can find one. We're based in Cambridge, so London is also a sensible option. We had a quick look at the python.org wiki page on training (it has Russell Winder and Michael Foord listed - I thought Michael was doing something else now?). Enthought clearly have a local office, but their offerings are all scientific Python oriented, which isn't really appropriate. I don't know anything about any of the other companies listed there as offering training. I *think* an existing course would be more useful than something done in-house specifically for us, since I don't know if there'd be more than one person interested (mind, I haven't asked yet). So, any suggestions/recommendations would be gratefully received, on or off list. Tibs

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PyDataLondon+London Python Usergroup -> Pub Tues 2nd Sept Shoreditch
by Ian Ozsvald Aug. 20, 2014

Aug. 20, 2014

By a curious quirk of planning we've managed to overlap this month's PyDataLondon meetup and the London Python Usergroup meetup: http://www.meetup.com/PyData-London-Meetup/ http://www.meetup.com/The-London-Python-Group-TLPG/ By happy co-incidence we'll share one speaker (Matt's speaking on plotly at LPUG and then closing our PyDataLondon), then we're off to the pub below our PyData venue. Antonio's bringing some of the LPUG folk, we should be in The William Blake around 8.30ish until late: https://foursquare.com/v/the-william-blake/5092e9e5d86c24afaa50b41a I'll be speaking at PyData on High Performance Python and Dirk will speak on using Data Science for water-planning in Tanzania (data for good!). Both events are free. If you're interested in data science, I'll be training on High Performance at EuroSciPy and I'll be along at PyConUK, I'd be happy to say Hi. Cheers, Ian. -- Ian Ozsvald (A.I. researcher) ian(a)IanOzsvald.com http://IanOzsvald.com http://ModelInsight.io http://MorConsulting.com http://Annotate.IO http://SocialTiesApp.com http://TheScreencastingHandbook.com http://FivePoundApp.com http://twitter.com/IanOzsvald http://ShowMeDo.com

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PythonAnywhere is hiring
by Harry Percival Aug. 19, 2014

Aug. 19, 2014

Writing on behalf of my beloved employers, PythonAnywhere. I hate to use the word "junior", age doesn't matter, but this would suit someone looking for their first or second "proper" software development job... it worked for me! more info follows: Fancy helping to build the Python world's favourite PaaS (probably)? We're > looking for a "junior" programmer with plenty of smarts to come and join > the team, learn the stuff we do, and inject some new ideas... > > ## Job spec > > Here's some stuff you'd be doing: > > * Working in an Extreme Programming (XP) shop, pair programming and TDD > all day, woo**. > > * Coding in Python lots and JavaScript a bit, and maybe other stuff too > (OK there's like 5 lines of Lua code somewhere. But you could come along > and try and convert us all to ClojureScript or something...) > > * Devops! Or what we take it to mean, which is that you deploy to and > administer the servers as well as write code for them. Lots of Linux > command-line goodness in SSH sessions, and automated deployment stuff. > > * Sexy CV-padding technologies! Like Docker, nginx, websockets, Django, > copy-on-write filesystems, Ansible, GNU/Linux (Ubuntu), virtualbox, > vagrant, continuous integration, AWS, redis, Postgres, and even Windows XP! > (although we're phasing that last one out, to our great chagrin). Don't > worry, you don't have to know any of these before you show up, you'll get > to learn them all on the job... > > * Learn vim (if you want to) much faster than you would on your own by > being forced to pair program with vim cultists all too happy to explain the > abstruse keyboard shortcuts they're using... > > * Get involved in the nonprogramming aspects of the business too (we all > do!), like customer support and marketing. Honestly, that can be fun too. > > * Work near enough to Silicon Roundabout that you can walk to the Hacker > News meetups, but not so near that you're forced to overhear bad startup > ideas being pitched in every coffee shop > > ** The pair programming thing is an unbelievably good deal for new > developers btw, there's just no faster way of learning than sitting down > next to someone that knows and being able to ask them questions all day, > and they're not allowed to get annoyed. > > > ## Person spec > > Here's the kind of person we'd like > > * Smart -- academically or otherwise. A degree (CS or other), won't hurt, > but it's not required either. > * An enthusiastic programmer (but not necessarily Python and not > necessarily professional) > * A bit wacky (which doesn't mean you have to be an extrovert, just > inclined to left-field ideas) > * Willing to come and work here in sunny Clerkenwell > * Willing to get paid less than you would at Google or a bank, in exchange > for working in an exciting but relaxed tech-startup environment > > Here's some stuff we don't care about: > > * Age > * Male/Female/Black/White/Number of functioning limbs/Space alien. > * Gaps in CVs > * Current country of residence (as long as you're willing to move here > promptly! You do need to be able to speak good English, and unfortunately > we're too small to sponsor visas, so you need to already have the right to > live + work in the UK) > * Dress codes > > Send us an email telling us why you'd like to work here, and a current CV, > to jobs(a)pythonanywhere.com > > http://blog.pythonanywhere.com/94/ -- ------------------------------ Harry J.W. Percival ------------------------------ Twitter: @hjwp Mobile: +44 (0) 78877 02511 Skype: harry.percival

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PyCon 2015 Call for Proposals is open!
by Brian Curtin Aug. 13, 2014

Aug. 13, 2014

Hi UK Python Users! The PyCon organizers invite you to submit proposals for talks, tutorials, and posters to be presented at PyCon 2015 - https://us.pycon.org/2015/. The conference takes place April 8-16 in Montreal, Queubec, Canada and we'll be accepting talk and tutorial proposals through September 15, with posters accepted through November 1! We want everyone to be a part of making PyCon what it is, which is why we invite everyone to submit proposals, and we invite everyone to be a part of the program committee. It's your PyCon, not mine. Whether you started with Python yesterday or you've been writing it since the 90s, everyone has different experiences, different knowledge, and a different story to tell. This is why we aim to strike a balance between beginner, intermediate, and advanced talks. We want the entire community to level up as a result of PyCon. Over the years, we've put together proposal resources and advice to help answer some common topics surrounding our CFP (https://us.pycon.org/2015/speaking/proposal-resources/). We even put together a sample proposal and reviewed it for you at https://us.pycon.org/2015/speaking/proposal_advice/samples/SpacePug/. If you have any questions or tips that may help others, please email them to pycon-pc(a)python.org, or feel free to respond and I'll help you out. The full details of our Call for Proposals are available at https://us.pycon.org/2015/speaking/cfp/. Keep an eye on that page as well as https://twitter.com/pycon and http://pycon.blogspot.com/ for details about ticket sales, financial aid, and more PyCon news! Thanks for your time! Brian Curtin, brian(a)python.org Publicity Coordinator, PyCon 2015

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Have you booked your tickets for PyconUK..?
by Nicholas H.Tollervey Aug. 7, 2014

Aug. 7, 2014

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Just had a quick look at the ticket bookings and we're selling out quickly. If you don't want to pay the £200 last minute rate I'd book the £150 standard rate pretty soon (we're over the 300 tickets sold mark - although some of them are for the kids attending on just the Saturday). Quick... don't make this a last minute thing! Also, you have until the 19th August to submit a talk. I've seen the list of those that have already been submitted and by the looks of it there will be a lot of varied, interesting and educational stuff happening. Of course, we already have organised the amazing lightning talks, the Friday social, the conference meal (with beer brewed using Python), wonderful swag bags, mugs and t-shirts and a special robot code dojo with seven of these critters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nao_%28robot%29 Did I mention the education track? Nope..?!?! OK... there's that too, with 40+ teachers attending the conference and lots of kids on Saturday. If you want to contribute to the Pythonistas of tomorrow it's the place to be (it's also a lot of fun in a very practical sense). Finally, remember the sprints on Monday! If you have something to sprint on you should revise or add yourself to this page: http://pyconuk.net/Sprints See you in September. Nicholas. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJT4zvbAAoJEP0qBPaYQbb6DrIH/0EjYwRLPbVtLe047uHNe+FI MgPRzusqSExEs2V2ppy3mCb8pXADBlYXODw5HJnl7fHPW5QBdf5cm5rxw0Th+5lP GUFtBcB+PoMepFZPdRB90MSp93jaG1tUOXQbJ9M3BD/tv9AYKI+58KbdaOwJAeNn ueB1CsPlV2vgZRuoU2/c6V/Vqwc4COdK1N7h8CUHtRzmfg0b/jt823ghijrgAmoL LrIDboyDd4njPBeMkzPaIg5SSNgEWjOli11M6yrSxBJGDPeUV7wKfNA8rXGEJ0qf QIJ4ahlh6Q/ev2i9CdQCry3eVgAVLe/xAR58d0Ty9TO9mCkhLSQpI5idZXZN7h8= =XnKS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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