[Chicago] Meeting: Dec 10 7pm Sullys

[Carl Karsten]

Chicao Python Users Group
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Come join us for our best meeting ever!

When: 7 PM Thursday December 10, 2009
Where: Sully's House Tap Room and Grill

Topics
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 1. 7:00 Packaging Python for Debian/Ubuntu (Tal Liron
<tal.liron at threecrickets.com>)
 2. 8:00 REST-ful Web apps with Django Piston (Matt Dorn <matt.dorn at gmail.com>)


Details
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1. Packaging Python for Debian/Ubuntu
Tal Liron <tal.liron at threecrickets.com>
Introduction to the whole Debian distribution system, which is
actually pretty neat, and show you how to push your Python app into a
Personal Package Archive (PPA) on Launchpad, which is not neat at all
and in fact is an undocumented abyss teeming with poisonous,
man-eating crocodiles. I'll save you from the crocodiles.


2. REST-ful Web apps with Django Piston
Matt Dorn <matt.dorn at gmail.com>
A common complaint about Django, the leading Python web application
framework, is that it doesn't make writing REST APIs easy enough.  In
fact the paradigm for a typical Django application involves views
which map to HTML page templates.  With end users increasingly
expecting rich interfaces with the responsiveness of a desktop
application, this paradigm is being superseded.   Fortunately a
third-party Django application called Piston fills the gap.
Django/Piston can be combined with the Ext JS JavaScript framework and
widget set to create attractive, responsive Web applications, and this
talk will show you how.



Location
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Sully's House Tap Room and Grill
1501 N Dayton Street
Chicago, IL 60642
(773) 244-1234
http://www.sullyshouse.com

At the corner of Blackhawk and Dayton, (2) Blocks from the North &
Clybourn Red Line stop. Free street parking available.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1501+N+Dayton+Street+Chicago,+IL+60642

About the group
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ChiPy is a group of Chicago Python Programmers, l33t, and n00bs.
Meetings are held monthly at various locations around Chicago.
Also, ChiPy is a proud sponsor of many Open Source and Educational
efforts in Chicago. Stay tuned to the mailing list for more info.

ChiPy website: <http://chipy.org>
ChiPy Mailing List: <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago>
Python website: <http://python.org>


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Carl K