[Baypiggies] bayPIGgies meeting Thursday June 12--Alex Martelli on callbacks, 7:30 PM

[jim]

bayPIGgies meeting Thursday 6/12:  Don't call us, we'll call you: 
callback patterns and idioms in Python

Callbacks (the general "Don't call us, we'll call you" pattern) 
are a crucial technique for concurrency, event-drivenprogramming 
(in a disparate variety of fields, from GUIs to parsing),
and advanced customization of library and system behavior. 

This talk covers callback patterns and idioms, their use in the 
Standard Python library, and best practices in designing and 
using callback-based interfaces.

This talk will be a variant on Alex' Pycon 2008 talk. see
http://us.pycon.org/2008/conference/talks/?search=Callbacks ...:



Location: Google Campus 
Building 42, the Parimaribo room (second floor) 
check in at the lobby in bldg 43 

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Agenda

..... 7:30 PM ...........................
General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, 
any first-minute announcements. 


..... 7:35 PM to 8:45 PM ................

The Talk 

..... 8:45 PM to 9:00 PM or After The Talk ................
Mapping and Random Access

Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of topics 
the announcers are interested in. 

Random Access follows immediately to allow follow up 
individually on the announcements and other topics of 
interest.


..... Thursday, July 10 ................
7:30 PM BayPIGgies Niall O'Higgins 
   p2p quantitive analysis and asynchronous BitTorrent 
   implementation in Python and C 

..... Thursday, August 14 ................
7:30 PM BayPIGgies Steven Knight on SCons