[Baypiggies] Meeting Suggestions?

[Mikeal Rogers]

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On Nov 22, 2007, at November 22, 20072:30 AM, Shannon -jj Behrens wrote:

> On Nov 20, 2007 2:04 AM, Charles Merriam <charles.merriam at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> Do we have a BayPiggies meeting for December?
>>
>> I could give a whirlwind talk that I proposed for PyCon.   I'll need
>> to know two weeks in advance.
>>
>> Charles
>> ----------------------------------------
>>
>> Summary
>> -------
>>
>> Many times the right answer is just finding the right library, tool,
>> or internal Python concept.  This whirlwind talk will give a one to
>> two minute overview of about twenty Python buzzwords.  Topics include
>> metaclasses, name managling, PEPs, Django, TurboGears, Zope, PyPy, DB
>> API, and others.  For technical managers, this overview will provide
>> the broad base necessary to direct engineers to explore new topics.
>>
>>
>> Description
>> -----------
>>
>> This talk is appropriate to all levels of Python programmers and  
>> managers.
>>
>> 00:00  Introduction
>>
>> 01:00  Python Internals
>>
>> *      List contexts
>> *      Modules and Self deleting module routines
>> *      Object Lifecycle and tricks
>> *      Metaclasses
>> *      Iterators and Generators
>> *      Decorators
>> *      Class Hooks
>> *      Multiple Inheritance
>> *      Unicode
>> *      Python 3000
>>
>> 12:00  Python Libraries
>>
>> *      DB API
>> *      Alternate Database Packages
>> *      PIL (Python Imaging Library)
>> *      JSON and XML with Python
>> *      Python as an date description language
>>
>> 22:00  Larger Python Packages
>>
>> *      PyGame for 2D Game programming
>> *      Soya for 3D Game programing
>> *      Django for WebApps
>> *      TurboGears for WebApps
>> *      Django versus TurboGears
>> *      Zope for Content Management