[CentralOH] Fwd: Python Weekly (Issue 3 - October 6, 2011)

[Eric Floehr]

If you haven't heard of it, the Python Weekly email is a curated set of cool
Python links each week.  You can sign up here:

http://www.pythonweekly.com/

I've copied the latest weekly email below, and would like to point out our
very own Issac Kelly's talk at DjangoCon is one of the links highlighted
this week.

Best Regards,
Eric


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From: Python Weekly <rahul at pythonweekly.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 11:06 AM
Subject: Python Weekly (Issue 3 - October 6, 2011)
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 Articles, Tutorials and Talks
 Crab: A Python Framework for Building Recommender
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 Motion Tracking with
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 In this article, the author describes how he implemented real time motion
tracking using OpenCV with Python.

 PyLogsParser: how to write a
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 This post describes how to write a log normalizer for fail2ban logs using
the PyLogsParser library.

 Patterns in Python<http://pythonweekly.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e2e180baf855ac797ef407fc7&id=2343dce44b&e=63b289788d>
 Python implements several important and well known patterns in the core
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common design patterns and focuses on how to implement those that are not
supported in the language. Knowing how common patterns are implemented in
Python will help programmers familiar with other languages to transfer their
expertise to Python.

 Building APIs in Django with
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 Tastypie is one of a couple of frameworks for building APIs with Django.
Issac Kelly goes over some of the reasons you might pick Tastypie, and how
to implement a Tastypie on top of an existing Django project.

 Spotlight on Python
<http://pythonweekly.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e2e180baf855ac797ef407fc7&id=420f8f2c62&e=63b289788d>
 This talk covers development and use of a Python-powered system designed
for lighting bands in small venues. It covers the problems of lighting
bands, the development process, the results, lessons learned.

 Writing An Hadoop MapReduce Program In
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 This tutorial describes how to write a simple MapReduce program for Hadoop
in the Python programming language.

 Scripting Languages: PHP, Perl, Python,
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 A side-by-side reference sheet comparing Perl, PHP, Python or Ruby.

 Web2py scheduler<http://pythonweekly.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e2e180baf855ac797ef407fc7&id=274fe15679&e=63b289788d>
 The new "experimental" scheduler tools is perhaps the next replacement to
the current cron in web2py. It's very simple and easy to use. With scheduler
we can run scheduler or long pooling tasks.

 Python and Robots: Teaching Programming in High
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 Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

 Minecraft.Print()
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 Minecraft.Print() is a python library for converting defined regions of
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 apiclient<http://pythonweekly.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e2e180baf855ac797ef407fc7&id=2d9b4b672e&e=63b289788d>
 It is a framework for making good Python API client libraries using
urllib3.

 Python script to get Xbox Live
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 Sentry<http://pythonweekly.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e2e180baf855ac797ef407fc7&id=a8a824c386&e=63b289788d>
 Sentry is a realtime event logging and aggregation platform built on
Django. Sentry provides you with a generic interface to view and interact
with your error logs. By default, it will catch any exception thrown by
Django and store it in a database. With this it allows you to interact and
view near real-time information to discover issues and more easily trace
them in your application.

 Splinter<http://pythonweekly.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e2e180baf855ac797ef407fc7&id=56215a832e&e=63b289788d>
 Splinter is an open source tool for testing web applications using Python.
It lets you automate browser actions, such as visiting URLs and interacting
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 Merchant<http://pythonweekly.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e2e180baf855ac797ef407fc7&id=26521a8a85&e=63b289788d>
 Django-Merchant is a django application that enables you to use multiple
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New Releases

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 This release adds support for the MongoDB and the Ming ORM for it, in
addition to bringing in some small bugfixes.

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Books

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 Learn how to leverage MongoDB with your Python applications, using the
hands-on recipes in this book. You get complete code samples for tasks such
as making fast geo queries for location-based apps, efficiently indexing
your user documents for social-graph lookups, and many other scenarios.

 Python Programming<http://pythonweekly.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e2e180baf855ac797ef407fc7&id=adb6bca8de&e=63b289788d>
 This book about python programming is written by team of contributors. It
introduces the language for new python users and covers key concepts and
python modules.

 Non-Programmers Tutorial For Python: An introduction to the Python
programming language for non programmers
<http://pythonweekly.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e2e180baf855ac797ef407fc7&id=f37e6fbd5c&e=63b289788d>
 Non-Programmers Tutorial For Python ( 2.6) is a tutorial designed to be a
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with no programming experience.

 A Python Book: Beginning Python, Advanced Python, and Python
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 This document is a self learning document for a course in Python
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 We are looking for a smart, savvy developer with fluency in Django/Python,
confidence in building large scale web applications, expertise with MySQL
and/or PostgreSQL, comfort administering a Linux server environment, and a
love of clean, elegant code.

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