Mailman 3 March 2017 - python-uk

London Python Dojo April 6th
by Tim Golden March 31, 2017

March 31, 2017

The next London Python Dojo is at 6:30pm on 6th April 2017. It will once again be held at Methods Digital, who are at 16 St Martin's Le Grand, near St Paul’s Tube Station. Arrive from 6:30pm for our usual mix of pizza and beer and socialising and hacking and silliness. For more details, and to register for a free ticket: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/london-python-code-dojo-season-8-episode-7-tic… Hope to see you there! TJG

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Full-stack Django developer Remote in UK at Compound Partners Ltd
by sertaç c March 30, 2017

March 30, 2017

See more to Apply: https://djangojobs.net/jobs/682/full-stack-django-developer-remote-in-uk-co… We are currently recruiting a full time, remote working, full-stack Python/Django web developer. Ideally you’ll have the ability to meet in London weekly.The Business We are a small, specialist agency providing digital design and build expertise directly to content marketers and via agencies as a white label service. We’ve grown organically over the last 5 years, working with some great partners to build around a dozen high profile websites for our B2B and B2C clients. We’re now looking for an experienced all-rounder to take responsibility for our development operations and move us on to the next level. What you'll work on As part of our next phase of growth we have a number of initiatives that will underpin our future success: - Client projects – At any given time we’ve got 3-4 client projects under way. You’ll be responsible for creating and maintaining a library of reusable Django CMS plugins and transforming wireframes and designs into high quality, responsive HTML5/CSS3 sites - Devops – Deploying, configuring and maintaining Linux servers and Django CMS sites and DBs. We have some comprehensive back office tools but time moves on and we need to ensure we keep pace with new technologies and opportunities. - Data – Collection, manipulation and presentation. We have an exciting new product at the prototype stage, you’ll be responsible for successfully bringing it into production. - Support – We pride ourselves on the quality of our service. We have our own take on the “agency model” and all our clients come to us via referral, often as a result of having worked with us before. What we're looking for A full stack developer to be the focal point for our technical infrastructure and delivery. Working closely with the project manager, you’ll be comfortable building the back end environment through to troubleshooting sophisticated front end code. That will require you to be both “hands on” and work with our technical partners to provide the optimal solution for each project. We are a small team but have plans to grow. This role has huge potential and we’re looking for someone keen to take on responsibility. There is great scope to influence the design and build and product development strategies going forward. Our future growth will be built around this role. - See more at: https://djangojobs.net/jobs/682/full-stack-django-developer-remote-in-uk-co…

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London Django Meetup - 11 April 2017
by David Seddon March 29, 2017

March 29, 2017

Dear all, The next London Django meetup will be on 11 April 2017. More information, including speaker list, is available here: https://www.meetup.com/The-London-Django-Meetup-Group/events/238464120/ Hope to see some of you there! Adam, Anand, David & James London Django Meetup Organisers

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IPython and Jupyter Notebook course
by Fangohr H. March 28, 2017

March 28, 2017

Hi all, in June, there is a 2-day course on IPython and Jupyter offered at the University of Southampton, delivered by two of the core developers (see http://ngcm.soton.ac.uk/summer-academy/ipython.html for all details). This is aimed at PhD students for whom participation costs 20 pounds. If you fall into that category and are interested, go and register now [1] while there are still places available. [The course is also open to the wider public, but charged at a real-cost of £350.] Best wishes, Hans [1] Registration through http://ngcm.soton.ac.uk/summer-academy/registration.html Prof Hans Fangohr Director EPSRC CDT in Next Generation Computational Modelling Head of Computational Modelling Group University of Southampton phone: 023 80598345 email: fangohr(a)soton.ac.uk<mailto:fangohr@soton.ac.uk> www: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~fangohr blog: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~fangohr/blog @ProfCompMod: https://twitter.com/profcompmod

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Live Better With is hiring a Lead Developer
by Pete Graham March 24, 2017

March 24, 2017

Hello, I run the tech team at Live Better With <https://livebetterwith.com/> we are an E-commerce company who sell products and create content which helps people living with long term illness, we are looking to hire a Lead Developer with a Python background. Challenges: - Scale the E-commerce platform and technical team as the company grows - Create new products & services to help people living with long term illness - Build tools & automate systems so all functions in the business (e.g., operations, marketing, etc.) can work most efficiently We are ideally looking for a full-stack developer, but are hiring for multiple roles, so are also interested in hearing from strong candidates towards the Python/DevOps end of the spectrum. The company is 10 people so there's a lot of potential to shape the role around the right person. We also have junior and mid-weight positions open. Candidates should be comfortable working in a fast-paced start-up environment. Technology stack: - Python, Django, Django Oscar - Posgres, ElasticSearch, Redis - py.test, CircleCI, Github - AWS (EC2, RDS, Cloudfront, S3, Code Deploy) - Ansible - Sass, Webpack, React If you have any questions feel free to reply directly to me. The role is on site in Kings Cross in London, the salary is competitive to match other London based roles. You'll need to be able to work in the UK, the pound is rubbish these days due to Brexit anyway so non-UK workers probably wouldn't be interested. Cheers, Pete

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Using WSL for one month
by Jonathan Hartley March 23, 2017

March 23, 2017

About a month ago I asked this list for advice on developing Python/Linux web services on a team which had been entirely C#/Windows. I was very grateful for the replies. I thought I'd let you know how it's panning out, especially with using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL.) I stuck to my guns, and deploy the Python service on Linux. Despite that, I use Windows 10 on my laptop (against my personal inclination), so that I can install Visual Studio and get a version of everyone else's C# services running locally. Conversely, if anyone else needs to run my Python services, they just replicate my setup (described below.) So we only have one kind of development environment across the whole team. My intention was to do development on a Linux VM. But I started out using WSL instead, as much to investigate what it is as anything. I didn't expect this would last long, but it's been 6 weeks now, and will probably stay for the foreseeable future. WSL is a new component in Windows that re-implements Posix system calls within the NT kernel, and links ELF binaries against them, so it can run compiled native Linux executables. WSL provides a full Ubuntu filesystem, complete with permissions, symlinks, fifos and everything, you'd expect. This filesystem has a /mnt/c for accessing your C drive. So I'm able to do all my development on that. Enable WSL, sudo apt install ansible, and then you can run my ansible commands to create a working dev environment, deploy to localhost or elsewhere. Pip installs that require compilation work fine, and my service runs under uwsgi quite happily. No VMs required. There are wrinkles with using WSL though: * It's console apps only, no X. (Although apparently it's easy to get X to run, and some simple graphical applications work) * I had problems using Upstart (We're on Ubuntu 14.04, for other reasons), and suspect Systemd would suffer similarly. Because there isn't really a 'boot process'. So for now, in local envs, I just start/restart my service manually on deploy, using "/sbin/start-stop-daemon", which is new to me, but has performed flawlessly. * Probably because of the Upstart/Systemd issues, there isn't a logrotate process running. Instead of getting one running, for now I'm cheating and simply not rotating logs in local envs. * PostgreSQL doesn't run. Some system calls aren't implemented that it needs related to shared memory. So as a workaround, I installed the Windows version of PostgreSQL. Requires zero config and my Linux client connects to it on localhost just fine. * Containers don't work. Lots of system calls they need are not implemented, and I don't know where this is on Redmond's priorities. * The built-in Windows terminal is almost as bloody awful as you remember. At first I tried the popular and very flexible 3rd party terminal 'con-emu', but it has problems with WSL, and despite much wrangling, I couldn't get it to work reliably with all three of {WSL, 256 colours, special keys like cursors}. So I fell back to wsl-terminal, a new terminal project written specifically to work with WSL. It's limited, but not in ways that bother me, and everything works out of the box. I installed my dotfiles repo, and fired up NeoVim, in solarized colors, with all my plugins, and everything works great. * Having said that, syncing the Windows clipboard to the X one is problematic, not least because X is not running! Apparently this is fixable, because it's easy to get X running, but I've been too lazy, and have been working around it by occasionally *dragging* selected text between Windows/Linux applications, instead of using the clipboard. I hope this is useful or interesting if you find yourself in a similar situation. Best regards, Jonathan Hartley -- Jonathan Hartley tartley(a)tartley.com +1 507-513-1101

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Looking for contracts
by Stestagg March 22, 2017

March 22, 2017

Hi All I'm getting married right at the start of July 🎉, and am looking for some work between now and then. Do any of you know a company that might be looking for someone to come in (London or remote based) for a short spell? I specialise in back end optimisation and architecture, preferably with Python but language usually isn't the important part, and have worked in many areas/types of companies. I'm usually in at a Senior/Tech Lead level. It would be great if you knew somewhere where writing excellent and test-ably correct code was emphasised over process. Thanks for your patience with the list-spam, please get in touch at ste(a)sta.gg if you know of anything Thanks Steve

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Any Internships in Mech. Eng. (or similar) going?
by Harry Percival March 15, 2017

March 15, 2017

Hey Python-chums! My cousin Madeleine is at Exeter doing Mechanical Engineering. She's looking for an Internship this summer, which ideally should be in the field or a closely related one, I thought y'all might have some ideas? Don't let the fact that she's related to me fool you. She is brilliant in every single way. Heading for a First, etc etc. HP -- -- Harry Percival +44 78877 02511

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Bank of America London (and New York) is hiring again
by Fadhley, Salim March 14, 2017

March 14, 2017

Bank of America is hiring again. Python important to Bank of America. Python is the main programming language in our biggest risk management system. Our business depends on hiring great Python developers. We have a number of roles open for Python developers right now: http://pythonjobs.github.io/jobs/baml_uk_london_lead_developer.html http://pythonjobs.github.io/jobs/baml_uk_london_test_engineer.html http://pythonjobs.github.io/jobs/baml_us_devops_engineer.html Don't worry too much if you aren't an exact fit for these job descriptions, feel free to submit a CV or LinkedIn profile. If you have a GitHub page (or any open-source code which we can review), please send that too. Since I last posted here we've moved: We've left Canary Wharf and moved into two new offices. Our main location is near St. Paul's Cathedral. We have another office near Bromley (South London). We have jobs available at both of these locations. If you have any questions feel free to email or call me: 0207 995 1134. Sal ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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I'm looking for (contract) work.
by Nicholas H.Tollervey March 11, 2017

March 11, 2017

Hi Folks, So with my book deadline on Wednesday I've procrastinated this morning by thinking about what my next gig might be. If you know of anyone who needs a senior Python contractor, do let me know..! It's easy for me to commute to central London, although I'd welcome remote contracts too. My CV is here: http://ntoll.org/cv Basically, what interesting problems do you have that I can help with? Thanks! N.

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