From brianhray at gmail.com Fri Apr 1 18:26:56 2011 From: brianhray at gmail.com (Brian Ray) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 11:26:56 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] ChiPy Mentoring Program Introduction Message-ID: We are looking for some participants in the ChiPy Python mentoring project. Details found here: https://github.com/brianray/Chipy/wiki/ You can email me off the list and I will get you set up. Just let me know which role you want to play. Concerning planning, I would like to hold a brief voluntary meeting 20 minutes before our monthly ChiPy meetings. Yes. we will be using the www.chipy.org as our pet project. Yes, we will use Git hub, Django, Pinax.... for the time being. Moving forward that can all change but that is where we will start. I know there have been a number of requests for features and even moving to the pycon system. Those are all fine and will be heard once we have a team together who can handle. I would really like this to be a casual and welcoming learning opportunity. I have discussed this with other members and I know there is at least some interest in participation. There really are only two goals for this effort: 1) learn and collaborate and 2) build a site that we can use. Are you in? Thanks, Brian -- Brian Ray -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ben.rathbone at gmail.com Tue Apr 5 22:06:19 2011 From: ben.rathbone at gmail.com (Ben Rathbone) Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 15:06:19 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Chicago Djangonauts meetup, April 7th In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Quick Reminder: Djangonauts on Thursday. Imaginary is located at: 5121 N. Ravenswood Ave. Chicago, IL 60640 Here is a link to the address on Google Maps: http://tinyurl.com/3ol9fvr The office is on the second floor. If you have any trouble getting into the office, call (877) 275-9144 and we will help you out. On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Ben Rathbone wrote: > For Django enthusiasts.... > > Invitation: > Chicago Djangonauts meetup, April 7th > > After several years on life support, Imaginary Landscape is > resurrecting the Chicago Djangonauts user group with a meetup at our > offices. > > Date/Time: > Thursday, April 7th @ 7pm > > Location: > Imaginary Landscape > 5121 N. Ravenswood Ave. > Chicago, IL ?60640 > > Overview: > Rackspace Cloud and Django, a Live Demonstration > > Join us for a live demonstration as we create a server within the > Rackspace cloud and build a simple site using Django and DjangoCMS. > Imaginary Landscape has been evaluating the cloud as a production > environment for our Django clients. You'll see the process from the > ground up in real time in addition to Q&A with Imaginary technical > staff. > > In addition, we will open the floor for a discussion on reviving > Chicago Djangonaut meetings on a regular basis as well as content > plans for future meetings. > > Imaginary will provide pizza, beer and soft drinks. > > Background: > Having just returned from the largest PyCon ever, we are energized by > the continued adoption of Python and have supported ChiPy for years. > However as a Django shop, we miss the Chicago Djangonauts and would > like to ressurect a Django-specific users group in Chicago. ?Please > drop by for the cloud demo, some food/drink as well as a meet and > greet. > > Imaginary Landscape is a 4-time sponsor of PyCon, a 2-time sponsor of > DjangoCon and frequent sponsor of ChiPy meetings. We've been creating > websites using Python since 1999 and Django since 2007. > > Additional background can be found in the blog post, "PyCon, Django in > Chicago and general musings." > http://chicagodjango.com/blog/pycon-django-chicago-general-musings/ > > Action: > RSVP through our Facebook event page or our contact form so we know > how much beer to buy! > Facebook: > http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=185265348184736 > Contact form: > http://chicagodjango.com/contact/ > From leon at chism.org Wed Apr 6 16:37:01 2011 From: leon at chism.org (Leon Chism) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 09:37:01 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Analyte Health is hiring Python developers Message-ID: Analyte Health is hiring developers at all experience levels to join the technology team in our Chicago office. Analyte Health is an on-line physician's practice using the power of the Internet to create convenient, private, and patient-focused medical care for our patients. See the full listing, and apply, at http://jobs.analytehealth.com/apply/YEtIiX/Software-Developer.html We employ a variety of technologies to deliver our vision. Our code is Python. Our websites are Django. We serve content using a mix of nginx, tornado, memcached, and MySQL. We functional test our sites using Selenium and we unittest our code. We use open source solutions when available, and we open source our own technologies when appropriate. We are looking for developers at all experience levels who have * Built and maintained customer facing web applications. * Worked with any MVC based web framework like Django, Rails, or Servlets. * Developed production systems using dynamically typed languages like Python, Ruby, Scala, or Groovy. * Thrived in agile environments. * Experience with the tools we use like tornado, fabric, nginx, RabbitMQ, Selenium, and memcached. * Collaborated closely with clients, product owners, and other non-technical folks. * A desire to work in a results-driven meritocracy. * The willingness to debate with peers who are as talented and intelligent as you. * A quality mindset, and a test-driven development habit. * A demonstrated passion for advancing their own skills and knowledge. Analyte Health is a start-up with some great benefits: besides a great working environment and a great team, you?ll have access to an array of insurance benefits, a 401(k) plan, catered lunches everyday, and we?ll get you whatever hardware and software you need to do amazing things for our patients. No recruiters, please....we can handle this. If it sounds interesting to you, apply at http://jobs.analytehealth.com/apply/YEtIiX/Software-Developer.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brianhray at gmail.com Wed Apr 6 16:48:40 2011 From: brianhray at gmail.com (Brian Ray) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 09:48:40 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Chicago Quest open house tonight In-Reply-To: <20110406144212.13994.47599@worker1> References: <20110406144212.13994.47599@worker1> Message-ID: I am reposting this from every block due to member's previous interest in using Python as a teaching tools in such settings. The Q2L in New York did some Pythonic thinking (Codeworlds) stuff http://q2l.org/node/14 in the past. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: EveryBlock Date: Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:42 AM Subject: [EveryBlock] Chicago Quest open house tonight To: brianhray at gmail.com A neighbor posted a new message in Chicago Quest area at 9:42 a.m.: Chicago Quest open house tonight A new charter middle school, Chicago Quest, is opening this fall at 1443 Ogden. Its mission is to apply the principles of game design and problem solving to teaching and learning. (Its sister school is the highly successful Quest to Learn in New York: http://q2l.org.) They're having an open house and enrollment fair tonight at Seward Park. Starts at 6pm. They'll have more info about the school, and they'll help folks fill out applications for enrollment, which are due in a couple days. You can learn more and download an application for enrollment at http://www.chicagoquest.org/. If you have more questions about the school, feel free to post them in a comment and I'll get an administrator post an answer (or answer it myself, if I can). Posted by Sandor Weisz Lincoln Square homeowner To post a comment or subscribe to follow-up comments, visit this item's page on EveryBlock. -- Brian Ray From brianhray at gmail.com Wed Apr 6 17:01:48 2011 From: brianhray at gmail.com (Brian Ray) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 10:01:48 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Analyte Health is hiring Python developers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Leon Chism wrote: > Analyte Health is hiring developers at all experience levels to join the 5 Reasons why this is a good job posting to the ChiPy list: * located in Chicago * to the point * details on industry, culture, and such * obvious use of Python * link to more job info I was complaining the other day about some other job postings so I thought I would praise a bit :P What do you all think about job postings on this mailing list? In my opinion, posts like this are a good thing right? By the way, I do not know the poster but I thank them for being clear. cheers, Brian -- Brian Ray (773) 669-7717 From carl at personnelware.com Wed Apr 6 17:11:20 2011 From: carl at personnelware.com (Carl Karsten) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 10:11:20 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Analyte Health is hiring Python developers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Brian Ray wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Leon Chism wrote: > > Analyte Health is hiring developers at all experience levels to join the > > > 5 Reasons why this is a good job posting to the ChiPy list: > > * located in Chicago > * to the point > * details on industry, culture, and such > * obvious use of Python > * link to more job info > > I was complaining the other day about some other job postings so I > thought I would praise a bit :P > > What do you all think about job postings on this mailing list? In my > opinion, posts like this are a good thing right? By the way, I do not > know the poster but I thank them for being clear. > +1 on all your points. -- Carl K -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brian.curtin at gmail.com Wed Apr 6 17:13:20 2011 From: brian.curtin at gmail.com (Brian Curtin) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 10:13:20 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Analyte Health is hiring Python developers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:01, Brian Ray wrote: > What do you all think about job postings on this mailing list? In my > opinion, posts like this are a good thing right? By the way, I do not > know the poster but I thank them for being clear. Yep, more posts like this would be great, especially when the posters are directly connected to the organization. The "PYTHON GURU REQUIRED" wall-of-text buzzword filled recruiter posts get old quick. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From MAXWELL.FRIEDMAN at morningstar.com Wed Apr 6 18:49:32 2011 From: MAXWELL.FRIEDMAN at morningstar.com (Maxwell Friedman) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 11:49:32 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Morningstar, Inc. is Looking For an Experienced Python Developer Message-ID: <849A7AF1F92CDC418BC1FACD831D91BE24D73C@MSEX891.morningstar.com> Morningstar, Inc. Data Division is looking for an experienced (6+ years preferred) developer with good knowledge of Python, to work on projects involved with our data collection infrastructure. The position would be working some cutting edge technology like Cassandra, ZeroMQ, and Disco and we are looking for someone who can work with and lead development on some of our core infrastructure. The job description, link to the posting and to apply is below. Morningstar is one of Forbes 2011 100 Best Companies to Work For . -Max Posting, please apply here. Application Developer, Global Funds U.S.A. The Area: The Data division is responsible for collecting and maintaining data on approximately 370,000 investments, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar investment types. We also provide institutional clients with investment data solutions such as Licensed Data, one of Morningstar`s largest business lines. The Role: In this role, you will collaborate with project managers, quality assurance analysts, and developers to build technology solutions for Morningstar`s Global Funds database infrastructure. This position is within the Global Funds business unit and is based in our Chicago office. Responsibilities + Drive the development of a new data collection platform using open source technologies. + Participate in every phase of development, from a project`s start through its release, while thoroughly documenting the process. + Build software enhancements, troubleshoot problems, and correct software defects. + Maintain quality by establishing and enforcing Morningstar`s development standards. + Deliver successful data releases to platform users. Requirements + A bachelor`s degree in computer science or an engineering field; a graduate degree is strongly preferred. + A minimum of four years of prior programming experience. + Effective programming in Python, MySQL (queries, schemas, stored procedures, views, triggers, and best practices), C/C++, Java, and XML in a Linux environment. + Familiarity with natural language processing software (NLP) is a plus. + Experience with configuration management, script languages, networks, web programming, and non-traditional database technology is desired. + Strong coding and documentation habits are essential, as is the ability to thoroughly consider and make thoughtful recommendations on all analysis, design, implementation, and troubleshooting issues. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From clydeforrester at gmail.com Wed Apr 6 19:07:53 2011 From: clydeforrester at gmail.com (Clyde Forrester) Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:07:53 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Analyte Health is hiring Python developers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4D9C9DE9.1040007@gmail.com> +1 on praise Clear, relevant, and definitely a good thing. Brian Ray wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Leon Chism wrote: >> Analyte Health is hiring developers at all experience levels to join the > > > 5 Reasons why this is a good job posting to the ChiPy list: > > * located in Chicago > * to the point > * details on industry, culture, and such > * obvious use of Python > * link to more job info > > I was complaining the other day about some other job postings so I > thought I would praise a bit :P > > What do you all think about job postings on this mailing list? In my > opinion, posts like this are a good thing right? By the way, I do not > know the poster but I thank them for being clear. > > cheers, Brian > > > From orblivion at gmail.com Wed Apr 6 20:09:27 2011 From: orblivion at gmail.com (Dan Krol) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 13:09:27 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Analyte Health is hiring Python developers In-Reply-To: <4D9C9DE9.1040007@gmail.com> References: <4D9C9DE9.1040007@gmail.com> Message-ID: Maybe on the signup page for the mailing list, you could say "if you're signing up to post a job description, please make sure that your post meets these guidelines..." On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Clyde Forrester wrote: > +1 on praise > Clear, relevant, and definitely a good thing. > > Brian Ray wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Leon Chism wrote: >>> >>> Analyte Health is hiring developers at all experience levels to join the >> >> >> 5 Reasons why this is a good job posting to the ChiPy list: >> >> ?* located in Chicago >> ?* to the point >> ?* details on industry, culture, and such >> ?* obvious use of Python >> ?* link to more job info >> >> I was complaining the other day about some other job postings so I >> thought I would praise a bit :P >> >> What do you all think about job postings on this mailing list? In my >> opinion, posts like this are a good thing right? By the way, I do not >> know the poster but I thank them for being clear. >> >> cheers, Brian >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > From carl at personnelware.com Wed Apr 6 20:16:48 2011 From: carl at personnelware.com (Carl Karsten) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 13:16:48 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Analyte Health is hiring Python developers In-Reply-To: References: <4D9C9DE9.1040007@gmail.com> Message-ID: "if you're signing up to post a job description, please make sure that your post is what Leon Chism would say." On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Dan Krol wrote: > Maybe on the signup page for the mailing list, you could say "if > you're signing up to post a job description, please make sure that > your post meets these guidelines..." > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Clyde Forrester > wrote: > > +1 on praise > > Clear, relevant, and definitely a good thing. > > > > Brian Ray wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Leon Chism wrote: > >>> > >>> Analyte Health is hiring developers at all experience levels to join > the > >> > >> > >> 5 Reasons why this is a good job posting to the ChiPy list: > >> > >> * located in Chicago > >> * to the point > >> * details on industry, culture, and such > >> * obvious use of Python > >> * link to more job info > >> > >> I was complaining the other day about some other job postings so I > >> thought I would praise a bit :P > >> > >> What do you all think about job postings on this mailing list? In my > >> opinion, posts like this are a good thing right? By the way, I do not > >> know the poster but I thank them for being clear. > >> > >> cheers, Brian > >> > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Chicago mailing list > > Chicago at python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > -- Carl K -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From johnstoner2 at gmail.com Wed Apr 6 20:35:25 2011 From: johnstoner2 at gmail.com (John Stoner) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 13:35:25 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Analyte Health is hiring Python developers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Another thing about this posting: it gives you enough information about the company and its needs. You can do some homework on the company and show up at an interview with some preparation. This is why I'm tending to find so much value in job listings posted by hiring managers instead of recruiters. On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Brian Ray wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Leon Chism wrote: > > Analyte Health is hiring developers at all experience levels to join the > > > 5 Reasons why this is a good job posting to the ChiPy list: > > * located in Chicago > * to the point > * details on industry, culture, and such > * obvious use of Python > * link to more job info > > I was complaining the other day about some other job postings so I > thought I would praise a bit :P > > What do you all think about job postings on this mailing list? In my > opinion, posts like this are a good thing right? By the way, I do not > know the poster but I thank them for being clear. > > cheers, Brian > > > > -- > > Brian Ray > (773) 669-7717 > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > -- blogs: http://johnstoner.wordpress.com/ http://boogiepants.typepad.com/ 'In knowledge is power; in wisdom, humility.' -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From verisimilidude at gmail.com Wed Apr 6 20:44:26 2011 From: verisimilidude at gmail.com (Phil Robare) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 13:44:26 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Analyte Health is hiring Python developers In-Reply-To: References: <4D9C9DE9.1040007@gmail.com> Message-ID: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Dan Krol wrote: > Maybe on the signup page for the mailing list, you could say "if > you're signing up to post a job description, please make sure that > your post meets these guidelines..." > And invite them to sponsor beer and pizza at a meeting if they are job posting. From tal.liron at threecrickets.com Wed Apr 6 21:53:56 2011 From: tal.liron at threecrickets.com (Tal Liron) Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:53:56 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Analyte Health is hiring Python developers In-Reply-To: <4D9C9DE9.1040007@gmail.com> References: <4D9C9DE9.1040007@gmail.com> Message-ID: <4D9CC4D4.60301@threecrickets.com> I'd also like to praise everyone who praised the job posting. Your analyses were acute, generous and showed the mark of true community-building. Also, I did a very good job right now in praising you. Hooray for us! -Tal On 04/06/2011 12:07 PM, Clyde Forrester wrote: > +1 on praise > Clear, relevant, and definitely a good thing. > > Brian Ray wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Leon Chism wrote: >>> Analyte Health is hiring developers at all experience levels to join >>> the >> >> >> 5 Reasons why this is a good job posting to the ChiPy list: >> >> * located in Chicago >> * to the point >> * details on industry, culture, and such >> * obvious use of Python >> * link to more job info >> >> I was complaining the other day about some other job postings so I >> thought I would praise a bit :P >> >> What do you all think about job postings on this mailing list? In my >> opinion, posts like this are a good thing right? By the way, I do not >> know the poster but I thank them for being clear. >> >> cheers, Brian >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago From joe at germuska.com Wed Apr 6 22:35:50 2011 From: joe at germuska.com (Joe Germuska) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 15:35:50 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Reminder: RSVP for April ChiPy-Hacks/Hackers event Message-ID: <36477F70-4FAA-439F-95AB-BAF5CBA70C96@germuska.com> Just a reminder: we are requiring RSVPs for this month's ChiPy and right now we're capping the RSVP at 80 people. If you're interested, please RSVP at http://meetupchicago.hackshackers.com/events/17120086/ FYI, here's the blurb again: Joint meeting: Chicago Hacks/Hackers & Chicago Python Users Group (ChiPy) Tribune Tower 435 N Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL Huron Room B The Chicago Tribune News Applications team wants to introduce hacks to hackers. We're hosting the April meeting of the Chicago Python Users Group (ChiPy, http://chipy.org) and planning an agenda that should be of crossover interest to journalists and coders alike. The main event will be a reprise of Christopher Groskopf's PyCon 2011 talk, "Best Practices for Impossible Deadlines," where he provides a general overview of how the Tribune NewsApps team has developed its methodology for building applications at the speed of news. Also on the agenda: * Jason Grotto (Chicago Tribune) and Jeff Kelly Lowenstein (Hoy, formerly Chicago Reporter) will present brief case studies of computer assisted reporting projects they've done, explaining the theory and practice of finding stories in data * Larry Adams and Nate Nichols will present the how and why of using Python to create domain specific languages (DSLs) as part of Narrative Science's algorithmic news production process. * Lightning talks: each speaker has exactly five minutes to present on any topic of likely interest to the audience. News Apps team members will be presenting on projects, tools and/or tricks of the trade. You can present as well! If you're interested in presenting a lightning talk on anything pertinent to news and technology, please send an email to jgermuska at tribune.com ? only people who make contact before the event will be allowed to present, and if we get too much advance interest, we may need to subject the list of topics to some kind of vote. Don't be shy, five minutes is not long?you probably have something interesting to share. If you have a topic that might be longer than lightning-talk length, email jgermuska at tribune.com with a brief description of the topic and the timing, and we can see if it fits in. ADVANCE RSVP IS REQUIRED in order to gain admission to Tribune Tower. RSVP at http://meetupchicago.hackshackers.com/events/17120086/ or by email to jgermuska at tribune.com -- Joe Germuska Joe at Germuska.com * http://blog.germuska.com * http://twitter.com/JoeGermuska "I felt so good I told the leader how to follow." -- Sly Stone -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From matt at mattokeefe.com Thu Apr 7 03:26:46 2011 From: matt at mattokeefe.com (Matthew O'Keefe) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:26:46 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Analyte Health is hiring Python developers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: For those who don't already know Leon, I'd like to share this vid with you: http://vimeo.com/14780360. And like Max said in another thread, we are doing some very cool things with Python at Morningstar as well, and we have a great opportunity. :) -Matt On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Leon Chism wrote: > Analyte Health is hiring developers at all experience levels to join the > technology team in our Chicago office. Analyte Health is an on-line > physician's practice using the power of the Internet to create convenient, > private, and patient-focused medical care for our patients. See the full > listing, and apply, at > http://jobs.analytehealth.com/apply/YEtIiX/Software-Developer.html > > We employ a variety of technologies to deliver our vision. Our code is > Python. Our websites are Django. We serve content using a mix of nginx, > tornado, memcached, and MySQL. We functional test our sites using Selenium > and we unittest our code. We use open source solutions when available, and > we open source our own technologies when appropriate. > > We are looking for developers at all experience levels who have > > * Built and maintained customer facing web applications. > * Worked with any MVC based web framework like Django, Rails, or Servlets. > * Developed production systems using dynamically typed languages like > Python, Ruby, Scala, or Groovy. > * Thrived in agile environments. > * Experience with the tools we use like tornado, fabric, nginx, RabbitMQ, > Selenium, and memcached. > * Collaborated closely with clients, product owners, and other > non-technical folks. > * A desire to work in a results-driven meritocracy. > * The willingness to debate with peers who are as talented and intelligent > as you. > * A quality mindset, and a test-driven development habit. > * A demonstrated passion for advancing their own skills and knowledge. > > Analyte Health is a start-up with some great benefits: besides a great > working environment and a great team, you?ll have access to an array of > insurance benefits, a 401(k) plan, catered lunches everyday, and we?ll get > you whatever hardware and software you need to do amazing things for our > patients. > > No recruiters, please....we can handle this. > > If it sounds interesting to you, apply at > http://jobs.analytehealth.com/apply/YEtIiX/Software-Developer.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Analyte Health is an on-line >> physician's practice using the power of the Internet to create convenient, >> private, and patient-focused medical care for our patients. See the full >> listing, and apply, at >> http://jobs.analytehealth.com/apply/YEtIiX/Software-Developer.html >> >> We employ a variety of technologies to deliver our vision. Our code is >> Python. Our websites are Django. We serve content using a mix of nginx, >> tornado, memcached, and MySQL. We functional test our sites using Selenium >> and we unittest our code. We use open source solutions when available, and >> we open source our own technologies when appropriate. >> >> We are looking for developers at all experience levels who have >> >> * Built and maintained customer facing web applications. >> * Worked with any MVC based web framework like Django, Rails, or Servlets. >> * Developed production systems using dynamically typed languages like >> Python, Ruby, Scala, or Groovy. >> * Thrived in agile environments. >> * Experience with the tools we use like tornado, fabric, nginx, RabbitMQ, >> Selenium, and memcached. >> * Collaborated closely with clients, product owners, and other >> non-technical folks. >> * A desire to work in a results-driven meritocracy. >> * The willingness to debate with peers who are as talented and intelligent >> as you. >> * A quality mindset, and a test-driven development habit. >> * A demonstrated passion for advancing their own skills and knowledge. >> >> Analyte Health is a start-up with some great benefits: besides a great >> working environment and a great team, you?ll have access to an array of >> insurance benefits, a 401(k) plan, catered lunches everyday, and we?ll get >> you whatever hardware and software you need to do amazing things for our >> patients. >> >> No recruiters, please....we can handle this. >> >> If it sounds interesting to you, apply at >> http://jobs.analytehealth.com/apply/YEtIiX/Software-Developer.html >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicago mailing list >> Chicago at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > -- Carl K -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brianherman at gmail.com Thu Apr 7 19:17:43 2011 From: brianherman at gmail.com (Brian Herman) Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 12:17:43 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Chicago X.Org Developers' Summit In-Reply-To: <4D9478EE.5050903@phoronix.com> References: <4D9478EE.5050903@phoronix.com> Message-ID: Sounds fun! I think Carl might do the video for the presentations! Neat! I want to come! Thanks, Brian Herman brianjherman.com brianherman at acm.org On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Michael Larabel wrote: > Hi, I was recommended by an Ubuntu LoCo member to ask a Chicago > organization here. > > I'm organizing the 2011 X.Org Developers' Conference/Summit and looking to > host it in Chicago this September. The X.Org Foundation is looking for a > venue for around ~60 developers that ideally can offer us a large room for a > period of about three days, at ideally little or no cost. > > I wanted to see from the Ubuntu Chicago list if anyone has any potential > leads or recommendations for such a venue? I've contacted the CS departments > at area universities and a few of them look potentially hopeful while I am > still waiting on others. > > http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2011 > > Additionally, before or after the event the X.Org Foundation is looking to > host a smaller book-sprint where they hope to write 'A New Developer's Guide > To X.Org'. For this sprint to last a few days it can be at a different venue > as they are just expecting ~10 people. > > Thanks for any information. > > Michael Larabel > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cbc at unc.edu Fri Apr 8 02:59:48 2011 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:59:48 -0400 Subject: [Chicago] Toronto PyCamp 2011 Message-ID: <4D9E5E04.3010303@unc.edu> The University of Toronto Department of Physics brings PyCamp to Toronto on Monday, June 27 through Thursday, June 30, 2011. Register today at http://trizpug.org/boot-camp/torpy11/ For beginners, this ultra-low-cost Python Boot Camp makes you productive so you can get your work done quickly. PyCamp emphasizes the features which make Python a simpler and more efficient language. Following along with example Python PushUps? speeds your learning process. Become a self-sufficient Python developer in just four days at PyCamp! PyCamp is conducted on the campus of the University of Toronto in a state of the art high technology classroom. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway http://nccoos.org/Members/cbc office: 3313 Venable Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From brianherman at gmail.com Fri Apr 8 06:50:41 2011 From: brianherman at gmail.com (Brian Herman) Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 23:50:41 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Toronto PyCamp 2011 In-Reply-To: <4D9E5E04.3010303@unc.edu> References: <4D9E5E04.3010303@unc.edu> Message-ID: Sounds fun! Thanks, Brian Herman brianjherman.com brianherman at acm.org On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Chris Calloway wrote: > The University of Toronto Department of Physics brings PyCamp to Toronto on > Monday, June 27 through Thursday, June 30, 2011. > > Register today at http://trizpug.org/boot-camp/torpy11/ > > For beginners, this ultra-low-cost Python Boot Camp makes you productive so > you can get your work done quickly. PyCamp emphasizes the features which > make Python a simpler and more efficient language. Following along with > example Python PushUps? speeds your learning process. Become a > self-sufficient Python developer in just four days at PyCamp! PyCamp is > conducted on the campus of the University of Toronto in a state of the art > high technology classroom. > > -- > Sincerely, > > Chris Calloway http://nccoos.org/Members/cbc > office: 3313 Venable Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 > mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks, Brian Herman brianjherman.com brianherman at acm.org On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Brian Herman wrote: > wtf is this? > Thanks, > Brian Herman > > brianjherman.com > brianherman at acm.org > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Jonathan Hayward < > jonathan.hayward at pobox.com> wrote: > >> I posted CFL, a DVCS recycled from compact fluorescent lights. >> >> -- >> [image: Christos Jonathan Hayward] >> Jonathan Hayward, an Orthodox Christian author. >> >> Author Bio ? Books >> ? *Email * ? Facebook >> ? LinkedIn ? Twitter >> ? *Web * ? What's New? >> I invite you to visit my "theology, literature, and other creative works" >> site. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicago mailing list >> Chicago at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Re: Tonight's Python hack (Brian Herman) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 22:20:09 -0500 > From: Jonathan Hayward > To: The Chicago Python Users Group > Subject: [Chicago] Tonight's Python hack > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > I posted CFL, a DVCS recycled from compact fluorescent > lights. > > -- > [image: Christos Jonathan Hayward] > Jonathan Hayward, an Orthodox Christian author. > > Author Bio ? Books > ? *Email * ? > Facebook > ? LinkedIn ? > Twitter > ? *Web * ? 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What's New? >> I invite you to visit my "theology, literature, and other creative works" >> site. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicago mailing list >> Chicago at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 15:26:01 -0500 > From: Brian Herman > To: The Chicago Python Users Group > Subject: Re: [Chicago] Tonight's Python hack > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > oh sorry i got confused by the signature sorry. > > Thanks, > Brian Herman > > brianjherman.com > brianherman at acm.org > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Brian Herman wrote: > >> wtf is this? >> Thanks, >> Brian Herman >> >> brianjherman.com >> brianherman at acm.org >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Jonathan Hayward < >> jonathan.hayward at pobox.com> wrote: >> >>> I posted CFL, a DVCS recycled from compact fluorescent lights. >>> >>> -- >>> [image: Christos Jonathan Hayward] >>> Jonathan Hayward, an Orthodox Christian author. >>> >>> Author Bio ? Books >>> ? *Email * ? Facebook >>> ? LinkedIn ? Twitter >>> ? *Web * ? What's New? >>> I invite you to visit my "theology, literature, and other creative works" >>> site. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Chicago mailing list >>> Chicago at python.org >>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>> >>> >> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > > End of Chicago Digest, Vol 68, Issue 9 > ************************************** From tonkinjs at yahoo.com Sun Apr 10 22:35:46 2011 From: tonkinjs at yahoo.com (Jonathan Tonkin) Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 13:35:46 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Chicago] Several items that may be of interest to group members Message-ID: <694964.46096.qm@web111306.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Hello, While this may not be directly related to group topics, here are several items that may be of interest to group members. 1.) (shortest first) The Chicago Chapter of the ACM is now on Facebook and Twitter.? Join our Facebook Group (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=59120137059) or follow us on Twitter (username:? chicagoacm). 2.)? Next ACM Meeting: April 13, 2011 A joint meeting with the Loyola University Computer Science Department Speaker: Brian Fitzpatrick Topic: "Do You Believe in the Users?" Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 6:30 pm 5:30 pm -6:30 pm (Social Hour) Loyola University Water Tower Campus (Chicago/Michigan Area) 820 N Michigan, Chicago IL 60611 Beane Ballroom (13th Floor, Lewis Towers) Campus map: http://www.luc.edu/about/pdfs/wtc_may09.pdf Admission: Free (General Admission, No Reserved Seats) Reservations: To make a reservation, use this form: (https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/chicagoacm.org/viewform?authkey=COy8ov8C&formkey=dEwwM1NJOWpiUHRkTmczX3NyamRGRXc6MA&ndplr=1#gid=0) or send an e-mail to greg at neumarke.net. About the Topic: This talk will focus on anecdotes and strategies for keeping software design uncomplicated, making software fast, and putting usability above programming convenience.? We?ll also focus on the importance of keeping a healthy illusion of simplicity, while allowing abstractions to deliberately leak for power-users. About the Speaker: Brian Fitzpatrick started Google's Chicago engineering office in 2005, and currently leads several of Google's Chicago engineering efforts, including Transparency Engineering and The Google Affiliate Network. He also started and leads Google's Data Liberation Front, a team that systematically works to make it easy for users to move their data both to and from Google. Lastly, he serves as internal advisor for Google's open source efforts. Prior to joining Google, Brian was a senior software engineer on the version control team at CollabNet, working on Subversion, cvs2svn, and CVS. 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Topics: Best Practices for Impossible Deadlines (:30 Thirty Minutes) By: Christopher Groskopf The main event will be a reprise of Christopher Groskopf's PyCon 2011 talk, "Best Practices for Impossible Deadlines," where he provides a general overview of how the Tribune NewsApps team has developed its methodology for building applications at the speed of news. Computer assisted reporting projects (case study) (:30 Thirty Minutes) By: Jason Grotto and Jeff Kelly Lowenstein Jason Grotto (Chicago Tribune) and Jeff Kelly Lowenstein (Hoy, formerly Chicago Reporter) will present brief case studies of computer assisted reporting projects they've done, explaining the theory and practice of finding stories in data. Create domain specific languages (DSLs) for news production (:30 Thirty Minutes) By: Larry Adams and Nate Nichols The how and why of using Python to create domain specific languages (DSLs) as part of Narrative Science's algorithmic news production process. Other Items: * there will be a special interest group for the Chipy.org Mentoring program at 6:40. * For those who want to socialize in high class atmosphere, some of us will head off to the Billy Goat after 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: ChiPy Mailing List: ChiPy Announcement *ONLY* Mailing List: Python website: From g at rre.tt Mon Apr 11 23:48:10 2011 From: g at rre.tt (Garrett Smith) Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:48:10 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] [ANN] Chicago Python User Group April Loop Meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: And meetup.com *finally* gets to Chipy, if only by proxy. On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Brian Ray wrote: > This will be the best Chicago Python User Group meeting ever! This is > in collaboration > hackshackers and The Chicago Tribune. RSVP?here > http://meetupchicago.hackshackers.com/. If space runs out on the RSVP, > sign up for the waiting list anyway--we will be opening up a bigger > space. Sign up now, you do not want to miss this one! > > When: Thursday April 14th 2011 7 p.m. > Where: Chicago Tribune Towers ?435 N. Michigan Ave. ?Meet in lobby for > escorts. Bring ID! > > Topics: > > Best Practices for Impossible Deadlines > (:30 Thirty Minutes) > By: Christopher Groskopf > The main event will be a reprise of Christopher Groskopf's PyCon 2011 > talk, "Best Practices for Impossible Deadlines," where he provides a > general overview of how the Tribune NewsApps team has developed its > methodology for building applications at the speed of news. > > Computer assisted reporting projects (case study) > (:30 Thirty Minutes) > By: Jason Grotto and Jeff Kelly Lowenstein > Jason Grotto (Chicago Tribune) and Jeff Kelly Lowenstein (Hoy, > formerly Chicago Reporter) will present brief case studies of computer > assisted reporting projects they've done, explaining the theory and > practice of finding stories in data. > > Create domain specific languages (DSLs) for news production > (:30 Thirty Minutes) > By: Larry Adams and Nate Nichols > The how and why of using Python to create domain specific languages > (DSLs) as part of Narrative Science's algorithmic news production > process. > > Other Items: > > * there will be a special interest group for the Chipy.org Mentoring > program at 6:40. > * For those who want to socialize in high class atmosphere, some of > us will head off to the Billy Goat after > > > 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: > ChiPy Mailing List: > ChiPy Announcement *ONLY* Mailing List: > > Python website: > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > From carl at personnelware.com Tue Apr 12 00:11:59 2011 From: carl at personnelware.com (Carl Karsten) Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:11:59 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] [ANN] Chicago Python User Group April Loop Meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Is there going to be food? Current schedule without food: 7-7:30 7:40-8:10 8:20 - 8:50 On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Brian Ray wrote: > This will be the best Chicago Python User Group meeting ever! This is > in collaboration > hackshackers and The Chicago Tribune. RSVP here > http://meetupchicago.hackshackers.com/. If space runs out on the RSVP, > sign up for the waiting list anyway--we will be opening up a bigger > space. Sign up now, you do not want to miss this one! > > When: Thursday April 14th 2011 7 p.m. > Where: Chicago Tribune Towers 435 N. Michigan Ave. Meet in lobby for > escorts. Bring ID! > > Topics: > > Best Practices for Impossible Deadlines > (:30 Thirty Minutes) > By: Christopher Groskopf > The main event will be a reprise of Christopher Groskopf's PyCon 2011 > talk, "Best Practices for Impossible Deadlines," where he provides a > general overview of how the Tribune NewsApps team has developed its > methodology for building applications at the speed of news. > > Computer assisted reporting projects (case study) > (:30 Thirty Minutes) > By: Jason Grotto and Jeff Kelly Lowenstein > Jason Grotto (Chicago Tribune) and Jeff Kelly Lowenstein (Hoy, > formerly Chicago Reporter) will present brief case studies of computer > assisted reporting projects they've done, explaining the theory and > practice of finding stories in data. > > Create domain specific languages (DSLs) for news production > (:30 Thirty Minutes) > By: Larry Adams and Nate Nichols > The how and why of using Python to create domain specific languages > (DSLs) as part of Narrative Science's algorithmic news production > process. > > Other Items: > > * there will be a special interest group for the Chipy.org Mentoring > program at 6:40. > * For those who want to socialize in high class atmosphere, some of > us will head off to the Billy Goat after > > > 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: > ChiPy Mailing List: > ChiPy Announcement *ONLY* Mailing List: > > Python website: > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > -- Carl K -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From waltaskew at gmail.com Tue Apr 12 00:38:45 2011 From: waltaskew at gmail.com (Walter Askew) Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:38:45 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] [ANN] Chicago Python User Group April Loop Meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3C3728C4-799B-488A-878F-B49A3CFF7E0C@gmail.com> Do you know if this meeting is going to be video-taped or not? I've got some other stuff to do on Thursday, but if the meeting won't be video-taped I'll find a way to skip out on my other Thursday plans because this looks like a great lineup. On Apr 11, 2011, at 4:26 PM, Brian Ray wrote: > This will be the best Chicago Python User Group meeting ever! This is > in collaboration > hackshackers and The Chicago Tribune. RSVP here > http://meetupchicago.hackshackers.com/. If space runs out on the RSVP, > sign up for the waiting list anyway--we will be opening up a bigger > space. Sign up now, you do not want to miss this one! > > When: Thursday April 14th 2011 7 p.m. > Where: Chicago Tribune Towers 435 N. Michigan Ave. Meet in lobby for > escorts. Bring ID! > > Topics: > > Best Practices for Impossible Deadlines > (:30 Thirty Minutes) > By: Christopher Groskopf > The main event will be a reprise of Christopher Groskopf's PyCon 2011 > talk, "Best Practices for Impossible Deadlines," where he provides a > general overview of how the Tribune NewsApps team has developed its > methodology for building applications at the speed of news. > > Computer assisted reporting projects (case study) > (:30 Thirty Minutes) > By: Jason Grotto and Jeff Kelly Lowenstein > Jason Grotto (Chicago Tribune) and Jeff Kelly Lowenstein (Hoy, > formerly Chicago Reporter) will present brief case studies of computer > assisted reporting projects they've done, explaining the theory and > practice of finding stories in data. > > Create domain specific languages (DSLs) for news production > (:30 Thirty Minutes) > By: Larry Adams and Nate Nichols > The how and why of using Python to create domain specific languages > (DSLs) as part of Narrative Science's algorithmic news production > process. > > Other Items: > > * there will be a special interest group for the Chipy.org Mentoring > program at 6:40. > * For those who want to socialize in high class atmosphere, some of > us will head off to the Billy Goat after > > > 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: > ChiPy Mailing List: > ChiPy Announcement *ONLY* Mailing List: > > Python website: > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago From carl at personnelware.com Tue Apr 12 16:08:13 2011 From: carl at personnelware.com (Carl Karsten) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:08:13 -0000 Subject: [Chicago] ANN: ChiPy Tribune Wed April 13, 7p Message-ID: <20110412140813.7264.84529@octave.videokollektiv.org> ChiPy ========================= When: 7 PM Wednesday April 13, 2011 Where: Tribune - You need to RSVP to get past security, see link below. Come join us for our best meeting ever! Topics ------ 1. 7:00 Best Practices for Impossible Deadlines (Christopher Groskopf) 2. 7:40 Computer-Assisted Reporting (CAR) Case Studies (Jason Grotto (Chicago Tribune), Jeff Kelly Lowenstein (Hoy)) 3. 8:20 The How and Why of Domain-Specific Languages with Python (Nate Nichols, Larry Adams (Narrative Science)) 4. 8:50 Lightning Talks (tentative) (Various Presenters) Details ------- 1. Best Practices for Impossible Deadlines Christopher Groskopf PyCon 2011 talk, general overview of how the Tribune NewsApps team has developed its methodology for building applications at the speed of news. 2. Computer-Assisted Reporting (CAR) Case Studies Jason Grotto (Chicago Tribune), Jeff Kelly Lowenstein (Hoy) Two veteran CAR reporters will describe some ways they've used data for investigative journalism. 3. The How and Why of Domain-Specific Languages with Python Nate Nichols, Larry Adams (Narrative Science) Nate will present lessons learned while designing domain specific languages in Python and Larry will demonstrate what all these great DSLs buy for Narrative Science. 4. Lightning Talks (tentative) Various Presenters If interest allows, or if questions and session switch-over-time don't go on too long, a few folks may present topical lightning talks. Location -------- Tribune Tower 435 N Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60290 RSVP and other info: http://meetupchicago.hackshackers.com About the group --------------- 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: ChiPy Mailing List: Python website: From dpmcgee at gmail.com Tue Apr 12 16:24:22 2011 From: dpmcgee at gmail.com (Dan McGee) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:24:22 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] ANN: ChiPy Tribune Wed April 13, 7p In-Reply-To: <20110412140813.7264.84529@octave.videokollektiv.org> References: <20110412140813.7264.84529@octave.videokollektiv.org> Message-ID: On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:08 AM, <> wrote: > ChiPy > ========================= > When: 7 PM Wednesday April 13, 2011 > Where: Tribune - You need to RSVP to get past security, see link below. I'm assuming trusting the hidden sender on the sudden date change is a bad idea, and Thursday, April 14th is still the correct date... -Dan From carl at personnelware.com Tue Apr 12 16:27:06 2011 From: carl at personnelware.com (Carl Karsten) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:27:06 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] ANN: ChiPy Tribune Wed April 13, 7p In-Reply-To: References: <20110412140813.7264.84529@octave.videokollektiv.org> Message-ID: On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Dan McGee wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:08 AM, <> wrote: > > ChiPy > > ========================= > > When: 7 PM Wednesday April 13, 2011 > > Where: Tribune - You need to RSVP to get past security, see link below. > > I'm assuming trusting the hidden sender on the sudden date change is a > bad idea, and Thursday, April 14th is still the correct date... > Oh swell. more spam coming soon. -- Carl K -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From emperorcezar at gmail.com Tue Apr 12 16:29:21 2011 From: emperorcezar at gmail.com (Adam Jenkins) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:29:21 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] ANN: ChiPy Tribune Wed April 13, 7p In-Reply-To: <20110412140813.7264.84529@octave.videokollektiv.org> References: <20110412140813.7264.84529@octave.videokollektiv.org> Message-ID: Question. Will there be food, or am I packing a samich? On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:08 AM, <> wrote: > ChiPy > ========================= > When: 7 PM Wednesday April 13, 2011 > Where: Tribune - You need to RSVP to get past security, see link below. > From joe at germuska.com Tue Apr 12 16:47:24 2011 From: joe at germuska.com (Joe Germuska) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:47:24 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] ANN: ChiPy Tribune Wed April 13, 7p In-Reply-To: References: <20110412140813.7264.84529@octave.videokollektiv.org> Message-ID: On Apr 12, 2011, at 9:29 AM, Adam Jenkins wrote: > Question. Will there be food, or am I packing a samich? The Tribune will provide pizza and beverages. And if the pizza doesn't go far enough, you can always get a cheezborger at the Billy Goat after we're done... Joe -- Joe Germuska Joe at Germuska.com * http://blog.germuska.com * http://twitter.com/JoeGermuska "I felt so good I told the leader how to follow." -- Sly Stone From brianhray at gmail.com Tue Apr 12 17:27:36 2011 From: brianhray at gmail.com (Brian Ray) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:27:36 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] ANN: ChiPy Tribune Wed April 13, 7p In-Reply-To: References: <20110412140813.7264.84529@octave.videokollektiv.org> Message-ID: > Oh swell. > > more spam coming soon. > > -- > Carl K The meeting is thursday. There will be some food, thanks Trib. I am guessing this enigmatic announcement was caused by testing a future enhancement to our announcement system?!... Please ignore From cfkarsten at gmail.com Tue Apr 12 17:39:46 2011 From: cfkarsten at gmail.com (Carl Karsten) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:39:46 -0000 Subject: [Chicago] CORRECTION: *Thursday* ChiPy April 14, 7p Message-ID: <20110412153946.7264.40923@octave.videokollektiv.org> ChiPy ========================= When: 7 PM Thursday April 14, 2011 Where: Tribune - You need to RSVP to get past security, see link below. Come join us for our best meeting ever! Topics ------ 1. 7:00 Best Practices for Impossible Deadlines (Christopher Groskopf) 2. 7:40 Computer-Assisted Reporting (CAR) Case Studies (Jason Grotto (Chicago Tribune), Jeff Kelly Lowenstein (Hoy)) 3. 8:20 The How and Why of Domain-Specific Languages with Python (Nate Nichols, Larry Adams (Narrative Science)) 4. 8:50 Lightning Talks (tentative) (Various Presenters) Details ------- 1. Best Practices for Impossible Deadlines Christopher Groskopf PyCon 2011 talk, general overview of how the Tribune NewsApps team has developed its methodology for building applications at the speed of news. 2. Computer-Assisted Reporting (CAR) Case Studies Jason Grotto (Chicago Tribune), Jeff Kelly Lowenstein (Hoy) Two veteran CAR reporters will describe some ways they've used data for investigative journalism. 3. The How and Why of Domain-Specific Languages with Python Nate Nichols, Larry Adams (Narrative Science) Nate will present lessons learned while designing domain specific languages in Python and Larry will demonstrate what all these great DSLs buy for Narrative Science. 4. Lightning Talks (tentative) Various Presenters If interest allows, or if questions and session switch-over-time don't go on too long, a few folks may present topical lightning talks. Location -------- Tribune Tower 435 N Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60290 RSVP and other info: http://meetupchicago.hackshackers.com The Tribune will provide pizza and beverages. And if the pizza doesn't go far enough, you can always get a cheezborger at the Billy Goat after we're done... About the group --------------- 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: ChiPy Mailing List: Python website: From carl at personnelware.com Tue Apr 12 17:52:40 2011 From: carl at personnelware.com (Carl Karsten) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:52:40 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] ANN: ChiPy Tribune Wed April 13, 7p In-Reply-To: References: <20110412140813.7264.84529@octave.videokollektiv.org> Message-ID: On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Brian Ray wrote: > > > > Oh swell. > > > > more spam coming soon. > > > > -- > > Carl K > The meeting is thursday. There will be some food, thanks Trib. I am > guessing this enigmatic announcement was caused by testing a future > enhancement to our announcement system?!... Please ignore > > It's part of my video processing system: def emailer t = loader.get_template('meeting_announcement.html') email = EmailMessage(subject, body, sender, [to], headers=headers ) https://github.com/CarlFK/veyepar/blob/master/dj/main/templates/meeting_announcement.html https://github.com/CarlFK/veyepar/blob/master/dj/main/views.py#L206 -- Carl K -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tottinge at gmail.com Tue Apr 12 17:55:35 2011 From: tottinge at gmail.com (Tim Ottinger) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:55:35 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] ANN: ChiPy Tribune Wed April 13, 7p In-Reply-To: References: <20110412140813.7264.84529@octave.videokollektiv.org> Message-ID: Bummer. I'm not making it after all. Enjoy it for me. -- Tim Ottinger, Sr. Consultant, Industrial Logic ------------------------------------- http://www.industriallogic.com/ http://agileinaflash.com/ http://agileotter.blogspot.com/ From brian.curtin at gmail.com Tue Apr 12 21:22:49 2011 From: brian.curtin at gmail.com (Brian Curtin) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:22:49 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer Message-ID: Hey all, My team at Trading Technologies is now looking for a strong Python user for a Senior Software Quality Engineer role. The product we work on is a historical tick database server which provides trade data to a GUI charting tool and analytics engines within the company. We want someone who is experienced with building test tools and libraries of all sorts: regression, performance, load, data validation, and more. The server, written in C++ on Windows, exposes a data API which we have wrapped in Python and use to generate our tools. An ideal candidate should have a solid understanding and interest in software testing, experience with parallelism libraries like Python?s multiprocessing, and experience working with automated build and continuous integration systems. Prior job experience within the financial world is helpful, but most important is someone who can grasp the entire scope of the project quickly, and design and write solid, comprehensive test code to ensure the quality of the project. Someone with experience mentoring and leading junior QEs would be useful too. We?re running Python 3, using Mercurial, and working with some pretty beefy hardware. The environment is pretty laid back ? casual dress, free bagels and cereal, free drinks, Xbox/Wii, foosball ? and the work isn?t so bad either! Here?s a more formal job spec: https://jobs-tradingtechnologies.icims.com/jobs/1750/job -- send me a resume if you?re interested. Brian -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brianherman at gmail.com Wed Apr 13 03:30:59 2011 From: brianherman at gmail.com (Brian Herman) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:30:59 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: OH MY GOD FREE BAGELS AND FOOSBALL ^_^ Thanks, Brian Herman brianjherman.com brianherman at acm.org On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Brian Curtin wrote: > Hey all, > > > > My team at Trading Technologies is > now looking for a strong Python user for a Senior Software Quality Engineer > role. The product we work on is a historical tick database server which > provides trade data to a GUI charting tool and analytics engines within the > company. We want someone who is experienced with building test tools and > libraries of all sorts: regression, performance, load, data validation, and > more. The server, written in C++ on Windows, exposes a data API which we > have wrapped in Python and use to generate our tools. > > > > An ideal candidate should have a solid understanding and interest in > software testing, experience with parallelism libraries like Python?s > multiprocessing, and experience working with automated build and continuous > integration systems. Prior job experience within the financial world is > helpful, but most important is someone who can grasp the entire scope of the > project quickly, and design and write solid, comprehensive test code to > ensure the quality of the project. Someone with experience mentoring and > leading junior QEs would be useful too. > > > > We?re running Python 3, using Mercurial, and working with some pretty beefy > hardware. The environment is pretty laid back ? casual dress, free bagels > and cereal, free drinks, Xbox/Wii, foosball ? and the work isn?t so bad > either! > > > > Here?s a more formal job spec: > https://jobs-tradingtechnologies.icims.com/jobs/1750/job -- send me a > resume if you?re interested. > > > > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brianherman at gmail.com Wed Apr 13 03:31:49 2011 From: brianherman at gmail.com (Brian Herman) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:31:49 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Can I apply to be an intern Ill work for the bagels and cereal and drinks? Thanks, Brian Herman brianjherman.com brianherman at acm.org On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Brian Herman wrote: > OH MY GOD FREE BAGELS AND FOOSBALL ^_^ > > Thanks, > Brian Herman > > brianjherman.com > brianherman at acm.org > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Brian Curtin wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> >> >> My team at Trading Technologies is >> now looking for a strong Python user for a Senior Software Quality Engineer >> role. The product we work on is a historical tick database server which >> provides trade data to a GUI charting tool and analytics engines within the >> company. We want someone who is experienced with building test tools and >> libraries of all sorts: regression, performance, load, data validation, and >> more. The server, written in C++ on Windows, exposes a data API which we >> have wrapped in Python and use to generate our tools. >> >> >> >> An ideal candidate should have a solid understanding and interest in >> software testing, experience with parallelism libraries like Python?s >> multiprocessing, and experience working with automated build and continuous >> integration systems. Prior job experience within the financial world is >> helpful, but most important is someone who can grasp the entire scope of the >> project quickly, and design and write solid, comprehensive test code to >> ensure the quality of the project. Someone with experience mentoring and >> leading junior QEs would be useful too. >> >> >> >> We?re running Python 3, using Mercurial, and working with some pretty >> beefy hardware. The environment is pretty laid back ? casual dress, free >> bagels and cereal, free drinks, Xbox/Wii, foosball ? and the work isn?t so >> bad either! >> >> >> >> Here?s a more formal job spec: >> https://jobs-tradingtechnologies.icims.com/jobs/1750/job -- send me a >> resume if you?re interested. >> >> >> >> Brian >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicago mailing list >> Chicago at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jsudlow at gmail.com Wed Apr 13 06:22:52 2011 From: jsudlow at gmail.com (Jon Sudlow) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:22:52 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: No no no you dont want to work for one of these places. I had the wonderful expereince of doing great, getting praised by my bosses, then getting fired by someone i never met when the project ended... dont be fooled On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Brian Herman wrote: > Can I apply to be an intern Ill work for the bagels and cereal and drinks? > > > Thanks, > Brian Herman > > brianjherman.com > brianherman at acm.org > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Brian Herman wrote: > >> OH MY GOD FREE BAGELS AND FOOSBALL ^_^ >> >> Thanks, >> Brian Herman >> >> brianjherman.com >> brianherman at acm.org >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Brian Curtin wrote: >> >>> Hey all, >>> >>> >>> >>> My team at Trading Technologies is >>> now looking for a strong Python user for a Senior Software Quality Engineer >>> role. The product we work on is a historical tick database server which >>> provides trade data to a GUI charting tool and analytics engines within the >>> company. We want someone who is experienced with building test tools and >>> libraries of all sorts: regression, performance, load, data validation, and >>> more. The server, written in C++ on Windows, exposes a data API which we >>> have wrapped in Python and use to generate our tools. >>> >>> >>> >>> An ideal candidate should have a solid understanding and interest in >>> software testing, experience with parallelism libraries like Python?s >>> multiprocessing, and experience working with automated build and continuous >>> integration systems. Prior job experience within the financial world is >>> helpful, but most important is someone who can grasp the entire scope of the >>> project quickly, and design and write solid, comprehensive test code to >>> ensure the quality of the project. Someone with experience mentoring and >>> leading junior QEs would be useful too. >>> >>> >>> >>> We?re running Python 3, using Mercurial, and working with some pretty >>> beefy hardware. The environment is pretty laid back ? casual dress, free >>> bagels and cereal, free drinks, Xbox/Wii, foosball ? and the work isn?t so >>> bad either! >>> >>> >>> >>> Here?s a more formal job spec: >>> https://jobs-tradingtechnologies.icims.com/jobs/1750/job -- send me a >>> resume if you?re interested. >>> >>> >>> >>> Brian >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Chicago mailing list >>> Chicago at python.org >>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>> >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brianherman at gmail.com Wed Apr 13 06:39:55 2011 From: brianherman at gmail.com (Brian Herman) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:39:55 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: No response from the job poster? Thanks, Brian Herman brianjherman.com brianherman at acm.org On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Jon Sudlow wrote: > No no no you dont want to work for one of these places. I had the wonderful > expereince of doing great, getting praised by my bosses, then getting fired > by someone i never met when the project ended... dont be fooled > > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Brian Herman wrote: > >> Can I apply to be an intern Ill work for the bagels and cereal and drinks? >> >> >> Thanks, >> Brian Herman >> >> brianjherman.com >> brianherman at acm.org >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Brian Herman wrote: >> >>> OH MY GOD FREE BAGELS AND FOOSBALL ^_^ >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Brian Herman >>> >>> brianjherman.com >>> brianherman at acm.org >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Brian Curtin wrote: >>> >>>> Hey all, >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> My team at Trading Technologies is now looking for a strong Python user for a Senior Software Quality >>>> Engineer role. The product we work on is a historical tick database server >>>> which provides trade data to a GUI charting tool and analytics engines >>>> within the company. We want someone who is experienced with building test >>>> tools and libraries of all sorts: regression, performance, load, data >>>> validation, and more. The server, written in C++ on Windows, exposes a data >>>> API which we have wrapped in Python and use to generate our tools. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> An ideal candidate should have a solid understanding and interest in >>>> software testing, experience with parallelism libraries like Python?s >>>> multiprocessing, and experience working with automated build and continuous >>>> integration systems. Prior job experience within the financial world is >>>> helpful, but most important is someone who can grasp the entire scope of the >>>> project quickly, and design and write solid, comprehensive test code to >>>> ensure the quality of the project. Someone with experience mentoring and >>>> leading junior QEs would be useful too. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> We?re running Python 3, using Mercurial, and working with some pretty >>>> beefy hardware. The environment is pretty laid back ? casual dress, free >>>> bagels and cereal, free drinks, Xbox/Wii, foosball ? and the work isn?t so >>>> bad either! >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Here?s a more formal job spec: >>>> https://jobs-tradingtechnologies.icims.com/jobs/1750/job -- send me a >>>> resume if you?re interested. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Brian >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Chicago mailing list >>>> Chicago at python.org >>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicago mailing list >> Chicago at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brianherman at gmail.com Wed Apr 13 06:49:12 2011 From: brianherman at gmail.com (Brian Herman) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:49:12 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: But you still got paid right? Thanks, Brian Herman brianjherman.com brianherman at acm.org On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Brian Herman wrote: > No response from the job poster? > > Thanks, > Brian Herman > > brianjherman.com > brianherman at acm.org > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Jon Sudlow wrote: > >> No no no you dont want to work for one of these places. I had the >> wonderful expereince of doing great, getting praised by my bosses, then >> getting fired by someone i never met when the project ended... dont be >> fooled >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Brian Herman wrote: >> >>> Can I apply to be an intern Ill work for the bagels and cereal and >>> drinks? >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Brian Herman >>> >>> brianjherman.com >>> brianherman at acm.org >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Brian Herman wrote: >>> >>>> OH MY GOD FREE BAGELS AND FOOSBALL ^_^ >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Brian Herman >>>> >>>> brianjherman.com >>>> brianherman at acm.org >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Brian Curtin wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hey all, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> My team at Trading Technologies is now looking for a strong Python user for a Senior Software Quality >>>>> Engineer role. The product we work on is a historical tick database server >>>>> which provides trade data to a GUI charting tool and analytics engines >>>>> within the company. We want someone who is experienced with building test >>>>> tools and libraries of all sorts: regression, performance, load, data >>>>> validation, and more. The server, written in C++ on Windows, exposes a data >>>>> API which we have wrapped in Python and use to generate our tools. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> An ideal candidate should have a solid understanding and interest in >>>>> software testing, experience with parallelism libraries like Python?s >>>>> multiprocessing, and experience working with automated build and continuous >>>>> integration systems. Prior job experience within the financial world is >>>>> helpful, but most important is someone who can grasp the entire scope of the >>>>> project quickly, and design and write solid, comprehensive test code to >>>>> ensure the quality of the project. Someone with experience mentoring and >>>>> leading junior QEs would be useful too. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> We?re running Python 3, using Mercurial, and working with some pretty >>>>> beefy hardware. The environment is pretty laid back ? casual dress, free >>>>> bagels and cereal, free drinks, Xbox/Wii, foosball ? and the work isn?t so >>>>> bad either! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Here?s a more formal job spec: >>>>> https://jobs-tradingtechnologies.icims.com/jobs/1750/job -- send me a >>>>> resume if you?re interested. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Brian >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Chicago mailing list >>>>> Chicago at python.org >>>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Chicago mailing list >>> Chicago at python.org >>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicago mailing list >> Chicago at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jsudlow at gmail.com Wed Apr 13 07:30:08 2011 From: jsudlow at gmail.com (Jon Sudlow) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:30:08 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: a few grand it was kind of like boot camp On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Brian Herman wrote: > But you still got paid right? > > Thanks, > Brian Herman > > brianjherman.com > brianherman at acm.org > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Brian Herman wrote: > >> No response from the job poster? >> >> Thanks, >> Brian Herman >> >> brianjherman.com >> brianherman at acm.org >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Jon Sudlow wrote: >> >>> No no no you dont want to work for one of these places. I had the >>> wonderful expereince of doing great, getting praised by my bosses, then >>> getting fired by someone i never met when the project ended... dont be >>> fooled >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Brian Herman wrote: >>> >>>> Can I apply to be an intern Ill work for the bagels and cereal and >>>> drinks? >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Brian Herman >>>> >>>> brianjherman.com >>>> brianherman at acm.org >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Brian Herman wrote: >>>> >>>>> OH MY GOD FREE BAGELS AND FOOSBALL ^_^ >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Brian Herman >>>>> >>>>> brianjherman.com >>>>> brianherman at acm.org >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Brian Curtin wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hey all, >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> My team at Trading Technologies is now looking for a strong Python user for a Senior Software Quality >>>>>> Engineer role. The product we work on is a historical tick database server >>>>>> which provides trade data to a GUI charting tool and analytics engines >>>>>> within the company. We want someone who is experienced with building test >>>>>> tools and libraries of all sorts: regression, performance, load, data >>>>>> validation, and more. The server, written in C++ on Windows, exposes a data >>>>>> API which we have wrapped in Python and use to generate our tools. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> An ideal candidate should have a solid understanding and interest in >>>>>> software testing, experience with parallelism libraries like Python?s >>>>>> multiprocessing, and experience working with automated build and continuous >>>>>> integration systems. Prior job experience within the financial world is >>>>>> helpful, but most important is someone who can grasp the entire scope of the >>>>>> project quickly, and design and write solid, comprehensive test code to >>>>>> ensure the quality of the project. Someone with experience mentoring and >>>>>> leading junior QEs would be useful too. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> We?re running Python 3, using Mercurial, and working with some pretty >>>>>> beefy hardware. The environment is pretty laid back ? casual dress, free >>>>>> bagels and cereal, free drinks, Xbox/Wii, foosball ? and the work isn?t so >>>>>> bad either! >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Here?s a more formal job spec: >>>>>> https://jobs-tradingtechnologies.icims.com/jobs/1750/job -- send me a >>>>>> resume if you?re interested. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Brian >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Chicago mailing list >>>>>> Chicago at python.org >>>>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Chicago mailing list >>>> Chicago at python.org >>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Chicago mailing list >>> Chicago at python.org >>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>> >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eviljoel at linux.com Wed Apr 13 14:59:06 2011 From: eviljoel at linux.com (eviljoel) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:59:06 -0400 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello, Jon, did you work for Trading Technologies or did you work for a company like Trading Technologies. I know I guy who worked there for several years and liked it. Seemed like a great place to work when I interviewed there. But of course, that was just an interview. Later, EJ On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Jon Sudlow wrote: > a few grand it was kind of like boot camp > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Brian Herman > wrote: >> >> But you still got paid right? >> Thanks, >> Brian Herman >> >> brianjherman.com >> brianherman at acm.org >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Brian Herman >> wrote: >>> >>> No response from the job poster? >>> Thanks, >>> Brian Herman >>> >>> brianjherman.com >>> brianherman at acm.org >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Jon Sudlow wrote: >>>> >>>> No no no you dont want to work for one of these places. I had the >>>> wonderful expereince of doing great, getting praised by my bosses, then >>>> getting fired by someone i never met when the project ended... dont be >>>> fooled >>>> >>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Brian Herman >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Can I apply to be an intern Ill work for the bagels and cereal and >>>>> drinks? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Brian Herman >>>>> >>>>> brianjherman.com >>>>> brianherman at acm.org >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Brian Herman >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> OH MY GOD FREE BAGELS AND FOOSBALL ^_^ >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> Brian Herman >>>>>> >>>>>> brianjherman.com >>>>>> brianherman at acm.org >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Brian Curtin >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hey all, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> My team at Trading Technologies is now looking for a strong Python >>>>>>> user for a Senior Software Quality Engineer role. The product we work on is >>>>>>> a historical tick database server which provides trade data to a GUI >>>>>>> charting tool and analytics engines within the company. We want someone who >>>>>>> is experienced with building test tools and libraries of all sorts: >>>>>>> regression, performance, load, data validation, and more. The server, >>>>>>> written in C++ on Windows, exposes a data API which we have wrapped in >>>>>>> Python and use to generate our tools. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> An ideal candidate should have a solid understanding and interest in >>>>>>> software testing, experience with parallelism libraries like Python?s >>>>>>> multiprocessing, and experience working with automated build and continuous >>>>>>> integration systems. Prior job experience within the financial world is >>>>>>> helpful, but most important is someone who can grasp the entire scope of the >>>>>>> project quickly, and design and write solid, comprehensive test code to >>>>>>> ensure the quality of the project. Someone with experience mentoring and >>>>>>> leading junior QEs would be useful too. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> We?re running Python 3, using Mercurial, and working with some pretty >>>>>>> beefy hardware. The environment is pretty laid back ? casual dress, free >>>>>>> bagels and cereal, free drinks, Xbox/Wii, foosball ? and the work isn?t so >>>>>>> bad either! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Here?s a more formal job spec: >>>>>>> https://jobs-tradingtechnologies.icims.com/jobs/1750/job -- send me a resume >>>>>>> if you?re interested. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Brian >>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> Chicago mailing list >>>>>>> Chicago at python.org >>>>>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Chicago mailing list >>>>> Chicago at python.org >>>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Chicago mailing list >>>> Chicago at python.org >>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicago mailing list >> Chicago at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > From mdipierro at cs.depaul.edu Wed Apr 13 15:08:28 2011 From: mdipierro at cs.depaul.edu (Massimo Di Pierro) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:08:28 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2B98447E-5AE9-40D2-BC5F-2423CA30D0BE@cs.depaul.edu> I know people who work there and they tell me it is a great place to work. What is also important, their software is very popular in the trading industry. I think, as a general policy, we should try to be more friendly to employers who post on this list since - I assume - we want to encourage them and not discourage from posting. In particular if the job requires Python as a skill and/or when the job is based in Chicago. Massimo On Apr 13, 2011, at 7:59 AM, eviljoel wrote: > Hello, > > Jon, did you work for Trading Technologies or did you work for a > company like Trading Technologies. I know I guy who worked there for > several years and liked it. > > Seemed like a great place to work when I interviewed there. But of > course, that was just an interview. > > Later, > EJ > > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Jon Sudlow wrote: >> a few grand it was kind of like boot camp >> >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Brian Herman >> wrote: >>> >>> But you still got paid right? >>> Thanks, >>> Brian Herman >>> >>> brianjherman.com >>> brianherman at acm.org >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Brian Herman >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> No response from the job poster? >>>> Thanks, >>>> Brian Herman >>>> >>>> brianjherman.com >>>> brianherman at acm.org >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Jon Sudlow wrote: >>>>> >>>>> No no no you dont want to work for one of these places. I had the >>>>> wonderful expereince of doing great, getting praised by my bosses, then >>>>> getting fired by someone i never met when the project ended... dont be >>>>> fooled >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Brian Herman >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Can I apply to be an intern Ill work for the bagels and cereal and >>>>>> drinks? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> Brian Herman >>>>>> >>>>>> brianjherman.com >>>>>> brianherman at acm.org >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Brian Herman >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> OH MY GOD FREE BAGELS AND FOOSBALL ^_^ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>> Brian Herman >>>>>>> >>>>>>> brianjherman.com >>>>>>> brianherman at acm.org >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Brian Curtin >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hey all, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> My team at Trading Technologies is now looking for a strong Python >>>>>>>> user for a Senior Software Quality Engineer role. The product we work on is >>>>>>>> a historical tick database server which provides trade data to a GUI >>>>>>>> charting tool and analytics engines within the company. We want someone who >>>>>>>> is experienced with building test tools and libraries of all sorts: >>>>>>>> regression, performance, load, data validation, and more. The server, >>>>>>>> written in C++ on Windows, exposes a data API which we have wrapped in >>>>>>>> Python and use to generate our tools. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> An ideal candidate should have a solid understanding and interest in >>>>>>>> software testing, experience with parallelism libraries like Python?s >>>>>>>> multiprocessing, and experience working with automated build and continuous >>>>>>>> integration systems. Prior job experience within the financial world is >>>>>>>> helpful, but most important is someone who can grasp the entire scope of the >>>>>>>> project quickly, and design and write solid, comprehensive test code to >>>>>>>> ensure the quality of the project. Someone with experience mentoring and >>>>>>>> leading junior QEs would be useful too. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> We?re running Python 3, using Mercurial, and working with some pretty >>>>>>>> beefy hardware. The environment is pretty laid back ? casual dress, free >>>>>>>> bagels and cereal, free drinks, Xbox/Wii, foosball ? and the work isn?t so >>>>>>>> bad either! >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Here?s a more formal job spec: >>>>>>>> https://jobs-tradingtechnologies.icims.com/jobs/1750/job -- send me a resume >>>>>>>> if you?re interested. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Brian >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>> Chicago mailing list >>>>>>>> Chicago at python.org >>>>>>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Chicago mailing list >>>>>> Chicago at python.org >>>>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Chicago mailing list >>>>> Chicago at python.org >>>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Chicago mailing list >>> Chicago at python.org >>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicago mailing list >> Chicago at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago From brian.curtin at gmail.com Wed Apr 13 15:17:36 2011 From: brian.curtin at gmail.com (Brian Curtin) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:17:36 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 20:31, Brian Herman wrote: > Can I apply to be an intern Ill work for the bagels and cereal and drinks? > > > Thanks, > Brian Herman > > brianjherman.com > brianherman at acm.org > This position is full-time employment only. We haven't done internships in a while, but I think they were paid in more than bagels, or maybe we just gave them a ton of bagels. I should also throw in: sorry telecommuters, we do the whole office thing. We're at Adams & Canal on top of Union Station, so it's pretty convenient to commute to from both the city and suburbs. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From warren.lindsey at gmail.com Wed Apr 13 15:43:58 2011 From: warren.lindsey at gmail.com (Warren Lindsey) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:43:58 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: <2B98447E-5AE9-40D2-BC5F-2423CA30D0BE@cs.depaul.edu> References: <2B98447E-5AE9-40D2-BC5F-2423CA30D0BE@cs.depaul.edu> Message-ID: Gosh people, you program in a language where half the libraries are named after comedy skits. Enjoy the joke. I thought it was funny. On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > I know people who work there and they tell me it is a great place to work. > What is also important, their software is very popular in the trading industry. > > I think, as a general policy, we should try to be more friendly to employers who post on this list since - I assume - we want to encourage them and not discourage from posting. In particular if the job requires Python as a skill and/or when the job is based in Chicago. > > Massimo > > On Apr 13, 2011, at 7:59 AM, eviljoel wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Jon, did you work for Trading Technologies or did you work for a >> company like Trading Technologies. ?I know I guy who worked there for >> several years and liked it. >> >> Seemed like a great place to work when I interviewed there. ?But of >> course, that was just an interview. >> >> Later, >> EJ >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Jon Sudlow wrote: >>> a few grand it was kind of like boot camp >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Brian Herman >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> But you still got paid right? >>>> Thanks, >>>> Brian Herman >>>> >>>> brianjherman.com >>>> brianherman at acm.org >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Brian Herman >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> No response from the job poster? >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Brian Herman >>>>> >>>>> brianjherman.com >>>>> brianherman at acm.org >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Jon Sudlow wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> No no no you dont want to work for one of these places. I had the >>>>>> wonderful expereince of doing great, getting praised by my bosses, then >>>>>> getting fired by someone i never met when the project ended... dont be >>>>>> fooled >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Brian Herman >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Can I apply to be an intern Ill work for the bagels and cereal and >>>>>>> drinks? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>> Brian Herman >>>>>>> >>>>>>> brianjherman.com >>>>>>> brianherman at acm.org >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Brian Herman >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> OH MY GOD FREE BAGELS AND FOOSBALL ^_^ >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>>> Brian Herman >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> brianjherman.com >>>>>>>> brianherman at acm.org >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Brian Curtin >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Hey all, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> My team at Trading Technologies is now looking for a strong Python >>>>>>>>> user for a Senior Software Quality Engineer role. The product we work on is >>>>>>>>> a historical tick database server which provides trade data to a GUI >>>>>>>>> charting tool and analytics engines within the company. We want someone who >>>>>>>>> is experienced with building test tools and libraries of all sorts: >>>>>>>>> regression, performance, load, data validation, and more. The server, >>>>>>>>> written in C++ on Windows, exposes a data API which we have wrapped in >>>>>>>>> Python and use to generate our tools. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> An ideal candidate should have a solid understanding and interest in >>>>>>>>> software testing, experience with parallelism libraries like Python?s >>>>>>>>> multiprocessing, and experience working with automated build and continuous >>>>>>>>> integration systems. Prior job experience within the financial world is >>>>>>>>> helpful, but most important is someone who can grasp the entire scope of the >>>>>>>>> project quickly, and design and write solid, comprehensive test code to >>>>>>>>> ensure the quality of the project. Someone with experience mentoring and >>>>>>>>> leading junior QEs would be useful too. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> We?re running Python 3, using Mercurial, and working with some pretty >>>>>>>>> beefy hardware. The environment is pretty laid back ? casual dress, free >>>>>>>>> bagels and cereal, free drinks, Xbox/Wii, foosball ? and the work isn?t so >>>>>>>>> bad either! >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Here?s a more formal job spec: >>>>>>>>> https://jobs-tradingtechnologies.icims.com/jobs/1750/job -- send me a resume >>>>>>>>> if you?re interested. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Brian >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>>> Chicago mailing list >>>>>>>>> Chicago at python.org >>>>>>>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> Chicago mailing list >>>>>>> Chicago at python.org >>>>>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Chicago mailing list >>>>>> Chicago at python.org >>>>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Chicago mailing list >>>> Chicago at python.org >>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Chicago mailing list >>> Chicago at python.org >>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicago mailing list >> Chicago at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > From brian.curtin at gmail.com Wed Apr 13 15:53:21 2011 From: brian.curtin at gmail.com (Brian Curtin) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:53:21 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: References: <2B98447E-5AE9-40D2-BC5F-2423CA30D0BE@cs.depaul.edu> Message-ID: I must have missed the punchline because it just looks like someone took a dump all over my job posting, with which I was hoping to attract people to the job... On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 08:43, Warren Lindsey wrote: > Gosh people, you program in a language where half the libraries are > named after comedy skits. Enjoy the joke. I thought it was funny. > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Massimo Di Pierro > wrote: > > I know people who work there and they tell me it is a great place to > work. > > What is also important, their software is very popular in the trading > industry. > > > > I think, as a general policy, we should try to be more friendly to > employers who post on this list since - I assume - we want to encourage them > and not discourage from posting. In particular if the job requires Python as > a skill and/or when the job is based in Chicago. > > > > Massimo > > > > On Apr 13, 2011, at 7:59 AM, eviljoel wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> Jon, did you work for Trading Technologies or did you work for a > >> company like Trading Technologies. I know I guy who worked there for > >> several years and liked it. > >> > >> Seemed like a great place to work when I interviewed there. But of > >> course, that was just an interview. > >> > >> Later, > >> EJ > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Jon Sudlow wrote: > >>> a few grand it was kind of like boot camp > >>> > >>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Brian Herman > >>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> But you still got paid right? > >>>> Thanks, > >>>> Brian Herman > >>>> > >>>> brianjherman.com > >>>> brianherman at acm.org > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Brian Herman > > >>>> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> No response from the job poster? > >>>>> Thanks, > >>>>> Brian Herman > >>>>> > >>>>> brianjherman.com > >>>>> brianherman at acm.org > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Jon Sudlow > wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> No no no you dont want to work for one of these places. I had the > >>>>>> wonderful expereince of doing great, getting praised by my bosses, > then > >>>>>> getting fired by someone i never met when the project ended... dont > be > >>>>>> fooled > >>>>>> > >>>>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Brian Herman < > brianherman at gmail.com> > >>>>>> wrote: > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Can I apply to be an intern Ill work for the bagels and cereal and > >>>>>>> drinks? > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Thanks, > >>>>>>> Brian Herman > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> brianjherman.com > >>>>>>> brianherman at acm.org > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Brian Herman < > brianherman at gmail.com> > >>>>>>> wrote: > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> OH MY GOD FREE BAGELS AND FOOSBALL ^_^ > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Thanks, > >>>>>>>> Brian Herman > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> brianjherman.com > >>>>>>>> brianherman at acm.org > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Brian Curtin < > brian.curtin at gmail.com> > >>>>>>>> wrote: > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Hey all, > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> My team at Trading Technologies is now looking for a strong > Python > >>>>>>>>> user for a Senior Software Quality Engineer role. The product we > work on is > >>>>>>>>> a historical tick database server which provides trade data to a > GUI > >>>>>>>>> charting tool and analytics engines within the company. We want > someone who > >>>>>>>>> is experienced with building test tools and libraries of all > sorts: > >>>>>>>>> regression, performance, load, data validation, and more. The > server, > >>>>>>>>> written in C++ on Windows, exposes a data API which we have > wrapped in > >>>>>>>>> Python and use to generate our tools. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> An ideal candidate should have a solid understanding and interest > in > >>>>>>>>> software testing, experience with parallelism libraries like > Python?s > >>>>>>>>> multiprocessing, and experience working with automated build and > continuous > >>>>>>>>> integration systems. Prior job experience within the financial > world is > >>>>>>>>> helpful, but most important is someone who can grasp the entire > scope of the > >>>>>>>>> project quickly, and design and write solid, comprehensive test > code to > >>>>>>>>> ensure the quality of the project. Someone with experience > mentoring and > >>>>>>>>> leading junior QEs would be useful too. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> We?re running Python 3, using Mercurial, and working with some > pretty > >>>>>>>>> beefy hardware. The environment is pretty laid back ? casual > dress, free > >>>>>>>>> bagels and cereal, free drinks, Xbox/Wii, foosball ? and the work > isn?t so > >>>>>>>>> bad either! > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Here?s a more formal job spec: > >>>>>>>>> https://jobs-tradingtechnologies.icims.com/jobs/1750/job -- send > me a resume > >>>>>>>>> if you?re interested. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Brian > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>>>>>> Chicago mailing list > >>>>>>>>> Chicago at python.org > >>>>>>>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>>>> Chicago mailing list > >>>>>>> Chicago at python.org > >>>>>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>>> Chicago mailing list > >>>>>> Chicago at python.org > >>>>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> Chicago mailing list > >>>> Chicago at python.org > >>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Chicago mailing list > >>> Chicago at python.org > >>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > >>> > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Chicago mailing list > >> Chicago at python.org > >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Chicago mailing list > > Chicago at python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dgriff1 at gmail.com Wed Apr 13 15:55:53 2011 From: dgriff1 at gmail.com (Daniel Griffin) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:55:53 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: References: <2B98447E-5AE9-40D2-BC5F-2423CA30D0BE@cs.depaul.edu> Message-ID: I'm not sure why. TT is a well known company, the job seems clear enough. Maybe they just hate bagels and foosball? On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Brian Curtin wrote: > I must have missed the punchline because it just looks like someone took a > dump all over my job posting, with which I was hoping to attract people to > the job... > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 08:43, Warren Lindsey wrote: > >> Gosh people, you program in a language where half the libraries are >> named after comedy skits. Enjoy the joke. I thought it was funny. >> >> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Massimo Di Pierro >> wrote: >> > I know people who work there and they tell me it is a great place to >> work. >> > What is also important, their software is very popular in the trading >> industry. >> > >> > I think, as a general policy, we should try to be more friendly to >> employers who post on this list since - I assume - we want to encourage them >> and not discourage from posting. In particular if the job requires Python as >> a skill and/or when the job is based in Chicago. >> > >> > Massimo >> > >> > On Apr 13, 2011, at 7:59 AM, eviljoel wrote: >> > >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> Jon, did you work for Trading Technologies or did you work for a >> >> company like Trading Technologies. I know I guy who worked there for >> >> several years and liked it. >> >> >> >> Seemed like a great place to work when I interviewed there. But of >> >> course, that was just an interview. >> >> >> >> Later, >> >> EJ >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Jon Sudlow wrote: >> >>> a few grand it was kind of like boot camp >> >>> >> >>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Brian Herman > > >> >>> wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>> But you still got paid right? >> >>>> Thanks, >> >>>> Brian Herman >> >>>> >> >>>> brianjherman.com >> >>>> brianherman at acm.org >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Brian Herman < >> brianherman at gmail.com> >> >>>> wrote: >> >>>>> >> >>>>> No response from the job poster? >> >>>>> Thanks, >> >>>>> Brian Herman >> >>>>> >> >>>>> brianjherman.com >> >>>>> brianherman at acm.org >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Jon Sudlow >> wrote: >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> No no no you dont want to work for one of these places. I had the >> >>>>>> wonderful expereince of doing great, getting praised by my bosses, >> then >> >>>>>> getting fired by someone i never met when the project ended... dont >> be >> >>>>>> fooled >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Brian Herman < >> brianherman at gmail.com> >> >>>>>> wrote: >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> Can I apply to be an intern Ill work for the bagels and cereal and >> >>>>>>> drinks? >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> Thanks, >> >>>>>>> Brian Herman >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> brianjherman.com >> >>>>>>> brianherman at acm.org >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Brian Herman < >> brianherman at gmail.com> >> >>>>>>> wrote: >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> OH MY GOD FREE BAGELS AND FOOSBALL ^_^ >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> Thanks, >> >>>>>>>> Brian Herman >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> brianjherman.com >> >>>>>>>> brianherman at acm.org >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Brian Curtin < >> brian.curtin at gmail.com> >> >>>>>>>> wrote: >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> Hey all, >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> My team at Trading Technologies is now looking for a strong >> Python >> >>>>>>>>> user for a Senior Software Quality Engineer role. The product we >> work on is >> >>>>>>>>> a historical tick database server which provides trade data to a >> GUI >> >>>>>>>>> charting tool and analytics engines within the company. We want >> someone who >> >>>>>>>>> is experienced with building test tools and libraries of all >> sorts: >> >>>>>>>>> regression, performance, load, data validation, and more. The >> server, >> >>>>>>>>> written in C++ on Windows, exposes a data API which we have >> wrapped in >> >>>>>>>>> Python and use to generate our tools. >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> An ideal candidate should have a solid understanding and >> interest in >> >>>>>>>>> software testing, experience with parallelism libraries like >> Python?s >> >>>>>>>>> multiprocessing, and experience working with automated build and >> continuous >> >>>>>>>>> integration systems. Prior job experience within the financial >> world is >> >>>>>>>>> helpful, but most important is someone who can grasp the entire >> scope of the >> >>>>>>>>> project quickly, and design and write solid, comprehensive test >> code to >> >>>>>>>>> ensure the quality of the project. Someone with experience >> mentoring and >> >>>>>>>>> leading junior QEs would be useful too. >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> We?re running Python 3, using Mercurial, and working with some >> pretty >> >>>>>>>>> beefy hardware. The environment is pretty laid back ? casual >> dress, free >> >>>>>>>>> bagels and cereal, free drinks, Xbox/Wii, foosball ? and the >> work isn?t so >> >>>>>>>>> bad either! >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> Here?s a more formal job spec: >> >>>>>>>>> https://jobs-tradingtechnologies.icims.com/jobs/1750/job -- >> send me a resume >> >>>>>>>>> if you?re interested. >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> Brian >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >> >>>>>>>>> Chicago mailing list >> >>>>>>>>> Chicago at python.org >> >>>>>>>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> >>>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >> >>>>>>> Chicago mailing list >> >>>>>>> Chicago at python.org >> >>>>>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >> >>>>>> Chicago mailing list >> >>>>>> Chicago at python.org >> >>>>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> >>>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> _______________________________________________ >> >>>> Chicago mailing list >> >>>> Chicago at python.org >> >>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> >>>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> _______________________________________________ >> >>> Chicago mailing list >> >>> Chicago at python.org >> >>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> >>> >> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Chicago mailing list >> >> Chicago at python.org >> >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Chicago mailing list >> > Chicago at python.org >> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicago mailing list >> Chicago at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brianhray at gmail.com Wed Apr 13 16:02:43 2011 From: brianhray at gmail.com (Brian Ray) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:02:43 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: References: <2B98447E-5AE9-40D2-BC5F-2423CA30D0BE@cs.depaul.edu> Message-ID: On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Daniel Griffin wrote: > I'm not sure why. TT is a well known company, the job seems clear enough. > Maybe they just hate bagels and foosball? > I wish I had a bagel right now. We love foosball. We also love Brian Curtin and not just because he has a cool first name but because he is a major contributor to Python and ChiPy while he is also a gentleman. Concerning bashing job posting based on previous experiences, eh ... it is a free world but probably is more embarrassing to the poster than the target. Every success business probably has had some dark times. Cheers, Brian -- Brian Ray From brianhray at gmail.com Wed Apr 13 16:08:17 2011 From: brianhray at gmail.com (Brian Ray) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:08:17 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Several items that may be of interest to group members In-Reply-To: <694964.46096.qm@web111306.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <694964.46096.qm@web111306.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Jonathan Tonkin wrote: > > 2.)? Next ACM Meeting: April 13, 2011 > > A joint meeting with the Loyola University Computer Science Department > > Speaker: Brian Fitzpatrick > > Topic: "Do You Believe in the Users?" > > Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 6:30 pm > 5:30 pm -6:30 pm (Social Hour) > > Loyola University Water Tower Campus (Chicago/Michigan Area) 820 N Michigan, Chicago IL 60611 Beane Ballroom (13th Floor, Lewis Towers) > > Campus map: http://www.luc.edu/about/pdfs/wtc_may09.pdf > > Admission: Free (General Admission, No Reserved Seats) > > Reservations: > To make a reservation, use this form: > (https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/chicagoacm.org/viewform?authkey=COy8ov8C&formkey=dEwwM1NJOWpiUHRkTmczX3NyamRGRXc6MA&ndplr=1#gid=0) > or send an e-mail to greg at neumarke.net. > > Speaking of gentleman... Brian Fitzpatrick (aka Fitz) ... not only has another great first name is a long time supporter of ChiPy: he has attended, presented, and even hosted some of our best meetings ever... hope some of you can make it to return the support. I will be there. Cheers, Brian -- Brian Ray (773) 669-7717 From paul at paulmayassociates.com Wed Apr 13 16:13:12 2011 From: paul at paulmayassociates.com (Paul May) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:13:12 -0000 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer Message-ID: <890717294795734@127.0.0.1> All I know is just make sure you don't send anything in RED , Brian, Chipys will have your head ;-) But red will get you job attention ;-) This is a joke just so everyone knows ;-} Paul ----- Original Message ----- To: The Chicago Python Users Group From: Daniel Griffin Sent: 4/13/2011 8:55:53 AM Subject: Re: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer I'm not sure why. TT is a well known company, the job seems clear enough. Maybe they just hate bagels and foosball? On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Brian Curtin wrote: I must have missed the punchline because it just looks like someone took a dump all over my job posting, with which I was hoping to attract people to the job... On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 08:43, Warren Lindsey wrote: Gosh people, you program in a language where half the libraries are named after comedy skits. Enjoy the joke. I thought it was funny. On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > I know people who work there and they tell me it is a great place to work. > What is also important, their software is very popular in the trading industry. > > I think, as a general policy, we should try to be more friendly to employers who post on this list since - I assume - we want to encourage them and not discourage from posting. In particular if the job requires Python as a skill and/or when the job is based in Chicago. > > Massimo > > On Apr 13, 2011, at 7:59 AM, eviljoel wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Jon, did you work for Trading Technologies or did you work for a >> company like Trading Technologies. I know I guy who worked there for >> several years and liked it. >> >> Seemed like a great place to work when I interviewed there. But of >> course, that was just an interview. >> >> Later, >> EJ >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Jon Sudlow wrote: >>> a few grand it was kind of like boot camp >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Brian Herman >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> But you still got paid right? >>>> Thanks, >>>> Brian Herman >>>> >>>> brianjherman.com >>>> brianherman at acm.org >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Brian Herman >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> No response from the job poster? >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Brian Herman >>>>> >>>>> brianjherman.com >>>>> brianherman at acm.org >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Jon Sudlow wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> No no no you dont want to work for one of these places. I had the >>>>>> wonderful expereince of doing great, getting praised by my bosses, then >>>>>> getting fired by someone i never met when the project ended... dont be >>>>>> fooled >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Brian Herman >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Can I apply to be an intern Ill work for the bagels and cereal and >>>>>>> drinks? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>> Brian Herman >>>>>>> >>>>>>> brianjherman.com >>>>>>> brianherman at acm.org >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Brian Herman >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> OH MY GOD FREE BAGELS AND FOOSBALL ^_^ >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>>> Brian Herman >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> brianjherman.com >>>>>>>> brianherman at acm.org >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Brian Curtin >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Hey all, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> My team at Trading Technologies is now looking for a strong Python >>>>>>>>> user for a Senior Software Quality Engineer role. The product we work on is >>>>>>>>> a historical tick database server which provides trade data to a GUI >>>>>>>>> charting tool and analytics engines within the company. We want someone who >>>>>>>>> is experienced with building test tools and libraries of all sorts: >>>>>>>>> regression, performance, load, data validation, and more. The server, >>>>>>>>> written in C++ on Windows, exposes a data API which we have wrapped in >>>>>>>>> Python and use to generate our tools. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> An ideal candidate should have a solid understanding and interest in >>>>>>>>> software testing, experience with parallelism libraries like Python's >>>>>>>>> multiprocessing, and experience working with automated build and continuous >>>>>>>>> integration systems. Prior job experience within the financial world is >>>>>>>>> helpful, but most important is someone who can grasp the entire scope of the >>>>>>>>> project quickly, and design and write solid, comprehensive test code to >>>>>>>>> ensure the quality of the project. Someone with experience mentoring and >>>>>>>>> leading junior QEs would be useful too. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> We're running Python 3, using Mercurial, and working with some pretty >>>>>>>>> beefy hardware. The environment is pretty laid back - casual dress, free >>>>>>>>> bagels and cereal, free drinks, Xbox/Wii, foosball - and the work isn't so >>>>>>>>> bad either! >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Here's a more formal job spec: >>>>>>>>> https://jobs-tradingtechnologies.icims.com/jobs/1750/job -- send me a resume >>>>>>>>> if you're interested. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Brian >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>>> Chicago mailing list >>>>>>>>> Chicago at python.org >>>>>>>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> Chicago mailing list >>>>>>> Chicago at python.org >>>>>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Chicago mailing list >>>>>> Chicago at python.org >>>>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Chicago mailing list >>>> Chicago at python.org >>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Chicago mailing list >>> Chicago at python.org >>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicago mailing list >> Chicago at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > _______________________________________________ Chicago mailing list Chicago at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago _______________________________________________ Chicago mailing list Chicago at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago (The following links were included with this email:) mailto:brian.curtin at gmail.com mailto:warren.lindsey at gmail.com mailto:mdipierro at cs.depaul.edu mailto:jsudlow at gmail.com mailto:brianherman at gmail.com http://brianjherman.com mailto:brianherman at acm.org mailto:brianherman at gmail.com http://brianjherman.com mailto:brianherman at acm.org mailto:jsudlow at gmail.com mailto:brianherman at gmail.com http://brianjherman.com mailto:brianherman at acm.org mailto:brianherman at gmail.com http://brianjherman.com mailto:brianherman at acm.org mailto:brian.curtin at gmail.com https://jobs-tradingtechnologies.icims.com/jobs/1750/job mailto:Chicago at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago mailto:Chicago at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago mailto:Chicago at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago mailto:Chicago at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago mailto:Chicago at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago mailto:Chicago at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago mailto:Chicago at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago mailto:Chicago at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago mailto:Chicago at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago (The following links were included with this email:) mailto:brian.curtin at gmail.com mailto:warren.lindsey at gmail.com mailto:mdipierro at cs.depaul.edu mailto:jsudlow at gmail.com mailto:brianherman at gmail.com http://brianjherman.com mailto:brianherman at acm.org mailto:brianherman at gmail.com http://brianjherman.com mailto:brianherman at acm.org mailto:jsudlow at gmail.com mailto:brianherman at gmail.com http://brianjherman.com mailto:brianherman at acm.org mailto:brianherman at gmail.com http://brianjherman.com mailto:brianherman at acm.org mailto:brian.curtin at gmail.com https://jobs-tradingtechnologies.icims.com/jobs/1750/job mailto:Chicago at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago mailto:Chicago at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago mailto:Chicago at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago mailto:Chicago at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago mailto:Chicago at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago mailto:Chicago at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago mailto:Chicago at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago mailto:Chicago at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago mailto:Chicago at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From steve at agilitynerd.com Wed Apr 13 16:43:09 2011 From: steve at agilitynerd.com (Steve Schwarz) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:43:09 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: References: <2B98447E-5AE9-40D2-BC5F-2423CA30D0BE@cs.depaul.edu> Message-ID: On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Brian Ray wrote: > > Concerning bashing job posting based on previous experiences, eh ... > it is a free world but probably is more embarrassing to the poster > than the target. Every success business probably has had some dark > times. > I think the issue here was the bashing of jobs in the financial industry and TT was getting put in that category even though the poster (apparently) hadn't worked there. TT being a software company, not a trading firm, makes the environment different than most financial software development jobs you might encounter. Full disclosure: I worked at TT for about 7 years doing C++ server side development. Best Regards, Steve Blogs: http://agilitynerd.com/ http://tech.agilitynerd.com/ Dog Agility Search: http://googility.com/ Dog Agility Courses: http://agilitycourses.com/ http://www.facebook.com/AgilityNerd -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From skip at pobox.com Wed Apr 13 16:53:19 2011 From: skip at pobox.com (skip at pobox.com) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:53:19 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job postings on the mailing list In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <19877.47327.43051.560732@montanaro.dyndns.org> Brian> No response from the job poster? Why should a company offering a job respond in a public forum to unsubstantiated attacks? Way back when, the various folks on the list decided that posting open positions for the Chicago area would be okay. It's a two-way street though. We allow them to post. They expect that their postings will be taken seriously and that their companies won't be denigrated in vague fashion. If people start to give job posters a hard time for what appear to be legitimate postings (I work with people who used to work for TT - I've never heard anything bad about them), then they will likely be more hesitant to post in the future, or you will get dry, HR-type, job postings which often tell you little about the job other than how many buzzwords can be crammed into an email. If you don't want job postings, speak up. If you would like to see job postings, treat the posters with a respect. After all, they will often be people you'll be interviewing or working with should you apply for a position. And as we all know the Internet is the mother of all elephants when it comes to remembering things. Skip From mdipierro at cs.depaul.edu Wed Apr 13 17:09:21 2011 From: mdipierro at cs.depaul.edu (Massimo Di Pierro) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:09:21 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: References: <2B98447E-5AE9-40D2-BC5F-2423CA30D0BE@cs.depaul.edu> Message-ID: I disagree that bashing jobs in the financial industry is a good idea. First of all the financial industry is one of the sectors where python adoption is growing (the SEC proposed the use of Python to model mortgage backed securities, JS morgan is building a new trading system in NYC in Python, Morningstar is using Disco for their cloud, etc.). It is one of biggest sectors in US and Chicago in particular (there are more financial exchanged here than in any two other cities in the world combined). I would agree that there are problems with the financial industry (managers who invest other people's money like to take higher risk than they would if it were their own money; the government likes to bail out banks in order to keep capital flowing; there should be more regulations but the system is complex and regulators do not agree on how to regulate it; monopolies have arisen) but is it the only industry with problems? What about manufacturing (think GM)? What about agriculture (think Monsanto)? The financial industry serves a purpose: it guarantees flow of capital (and people who work can get a loan to buy a house or open a business) and fair prices (market exchanges publish last bid/offer so that everybody knows the fair price of every security within a few percent). As anything we humans do, it could operate better but that is true for any other human endeavor. How here has written software without bugs? I for one would like to see more smart and competent people to work in the financial industry. The problem is that it is dominated too much by people with a business or legal background and very little technical skills. Perhaps they will help make it better and prevent (or postpone) the next market crash. Massimo On Apr 13, 2011, at 9:43 AM, Steve Schwarz wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Brian Ray wrote: > Concerning bashing job posting based on previous experiences, eh ... > it is a free world but probably is more embarrassing to the poster > than the target. Every success business probably has had some dark > times. > > I think the issue here was the bashing of jobs in the financial industry and TT was getting put in that category even though the poster (apparently) hadn't worked there. > > TT being a software company, not a trading firm, makes the environment different than most financial software development jobs you might encounter. > > Full disclosure: I worked at TT for about 7 years doing C++ server side development. > > Best Regards, > Steve > Blogs: http://agilitynerd.com/ http://tech.agilitynerd.com/ > Dog Agility Search: http://googility.com/ > Dog Agility Courses: http://agilitycourses.com/ > http://www.facebook.com/AgilityNerd > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shekay at pobox.com Wed Apr 13 17:08:52 2011 From: shekay at pobox.com (sheila miguez) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:08:52 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: References: <2B98447E-5AE9-40D2-BC5F-2423CA30D0BE@cs.depaul.edu> Message-ID: If it makes the experience of the bashing in this thread a little less negative, I will admit that it has raised the company a little more in my esteem. If I have gained a more positive impression, then it is most likely other people now have as well. (It's not likely that I am a complete outlier) I have a poor impression of trading companies, and was surprised to see that Brian worked for one. My intuition would be that he'd only work at a pleasant place, and I never thought a trading company would be a pleasant place. I ignore job postings for them. >From this thread I found out that it is not a trading company, and that other people in the list vouch for it. Btw, of the most recent job postings, I will vouch for Leon Chism's since I know people he works with and has worked with. I'm not sure if that helps anyone here since most of you don't know me that well, but I thought I'd give a nod in case it helps. On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Steve Schwarz wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Brian Ray wrote: >> >> Concerning bashing job posting based on previous experiences, eh ... >> it is a free world but probably is more embarrassing to the poster >> than the target. Every success business probably has had some dark >> times. > > I think the issue here was the bashing of jobs in the financial industry and > TT was getting put in that category even though the poster (apparently) > hadn't worked there. > TT being a software company, not a trading firm, makes the environment > different than most financial software development jobs you might > encounter. > Full disclosure: I worked at TT for about 7 years doing C++ server side > development. > Best Regards, > Steve > Blogs: http://agilitynerd.com/? http://tech.agilitynerd.com/ > Dog Agility Search: http://googility.com/ > Dog Agility Courses: http://agilitycourses.com/ > http://www.facebook.com/AgilityNerd > > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > -- sheila From steve at agilitynerd.com Wed Apr 13 17:23:52 2011 From: steve at agilitynerd.com (Steve Schwarz) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:23:52 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: References: <2B98447E-5AE9-40D2-BC5F-2423CA30D0BE@cs.depaul.edu> Message-ID: On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > I disagree that bashing jobs in the financial industry is a good idea. > By including my email with your reply I hope you aren't interpreting my remarks as supporting bashing jobs in the financial industry. In no way was my comment intended to do such a thing. I was just making the distinction between developing for a software firm vs. developing software within a trading firm. They are different environments. Nothing more, nothing less. I have no experience with software development w/in a trading firm so I can't comment positively or negatively about them. Since I worked at TT I know the high caliber of people working there and the technical skills they bring to developing their products. Best Regards, Steve Blogs: http://agilitynerd.com/ http://tech.agilitynerd.com/ Dog Agility Search: http://googility.com/ Dog Agility Courses: http://agilitycourses.com/ http://www.facebook.com/AgilityNerd -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mdipierro at cs.depaul.edu Wed Apr 13 17:26:20 2011 From: mdipierro at cs.depaul.edu (Massimo Di Pierro) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:26:20 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: References: <2B98447E-5AE9-40D2-BC5F-2423CA30D0BE@cs.depaul.edu> Message-ID: <1D79DA47-5FBC-4FC7-8091-EE07B3B2410E@cs.depaul.edu> Sorry, I did not mean to. I have the bad habit of not deleting text automatically included. Massimo On Apr 13, 2011, at 10:23 AM, Steve Schwarz wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > I disagree that bashing jobs in the financial industry is a good idea. > > By including my email with your reply I hope you aren't interpreting my remarks as supporting bashing jobs in the financial industry. In no way was my comment intended to do such a thing. > > I was just making the distinction between developing for a software firm vs. developing software within a trading firm. They are different environments. Nothing more, nothing less. I have no experience with software development w/in a trading firm so I can't comment positively or negatively about them. Since I worked at TT I know the high caliber of people working there and the technical skills they bring to developing their products. > > Best Regards, > Steve > Blogs: http://agilitynerd.com/ http://tech.agilitynerd.com/ > Dog Agility Search: http://googility.com/ > Dog Agility Courses: http://agilitycourses.com/ > http://www.facebook.com/AgilityNerd > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lance at roytalman.com Wed Apr 13 17:25:27 2011 From: lance at roytalman.com (Lance Hassan) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:25:27 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: References: <2B98447E-5AE9-40D2-BC5F-2423CA30D0BE@cs.depaul.edu> Message-ID: <1AAF941D1C57C14BBAAAA4F112A95BF808D3CAF4@DFW1MBX22.mex07a.mlsrvr.com> Correct, pretty much across the board, however...one of the things which we use to distance/differentiate Chicago Cap Markets and Trading is that the majority of Chicago Trading is not done with public money, unlike NY. NY is primarily Investment Banking versus Proprietary Trading which is the bulk of the money being traded in Chicago... Short Version NY Trades with your money, Chicago Traders use their own... Now specifically where Python is concerned, as Massimo points out, there has been a significant growth in Python use particularly in the area of Trade Support. I'm not sure what anyone's perception of what Trading looks like these days...but the days of Trading Floors with a generally incoherent milieu are pretty much gone. Trading teams will consist of a Trader, usually some form of a quant/analyst/programmer, a Linux/Unix hacker typically with at minimum very strong Python skills. Teams vary in size and required strengths and weaknesses in any given area will also vary...but that's the fundamental make up. From: chicago-bounces+lance=roytalman.com at python.org [mailto:chicago-bounces+lance=roytalman.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Massimo Di Pierro Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 10:09 AM To: The Chicago Python Users Group Subject: Re: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer I disagree that bashing jobs in the financial industry is a good idea. First of all the financial industry is one of the sectors where python adoption is growing (the SEC proposed the use of Python to model mortgage backed securities, JS morgan is building a new trading system in NYC in Python, Morningstar is using Disco for their cloud, etc.). It is one of biggest sectors in US and Chicago in particular (there are more financial exchanged here than in any two other cities in the world combined). I would agree that there are problems with the financial industry (managers who invest other people's money like to take higher risk than they would if it were their own money; the government likes to bail out banks in order to keep capital flowing; there should be more regulations but the system is complex and regulators do not agree on how to regulate it; monopolies have arisen) but is it the only industry with problems? What about manufacturing (think GM)? What about agriculture (think Monsanto)? The financial industry serves a purpose: it guarantees flow of capital (and people who work can get a loan to buy a house or open a business) and fair prices (market exchanges publish last bid/offer so that everybody knows the fair price of every security within a few percent). As anything we humans do, it could operate better but that is true for any other human endeavor. How here has written software without bugs? I for one would like to see more smart and competent people to work in the financial industry. The problem is that it is dominated too much by people with a business or legal background and very little technical skills. Perhaps they will help make it better and prevent (or postpone) the next market crash. Massimo On Apr 13, 2011, at 9:43 AM, Steve Schwarz wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Brian Ray > wrote: Concerning bashing job posting based on previous experiences, eh ... it is a free world but probably is more embarrassing to the poster than the target. Every success business probably has had some dark times. I think the issue here was the bashing of jobs in the financial industry and TT was getting put in that category even though the poster (apparently) hadn't worked there. TT being a software company, not a trading firm, makes the environment different than most financial software development jobs you might encounter. Full disclosure: I worked at TT for about 7 years doing C++ server side development. Best Regards, Steve Blogs: http://agilitynerd.com/ http://tech.agilitynerd.com/ Dog Agility Search: http://googility.com/ Dog Agility Courses: http://agilitycourses.com/ http://www.facebook.com/AgilityNerd _______________________________________________ Chicago mailing list Chicago at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Allan (who used to work at Wolverine) On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Lance Hassan wrote: > Correct, pretty much across the board, however?one of the things which we > use to distance/differentiate Chicago Cap Markets and Trading is that the > majority of Chicago Trading is not done with public money, unlike NY. NY is > primarily Investment Banking versus Proprietary Trading which is the bulk of > the money being traded in Chicago? Short Version NY Trades with your money, > Chicago Traders use their own? > > > > Now specifically where Python is concerned, as Massimo points out, there > has been a significant growth in Python use particularly in the area of > Trade Support. I?m not sure what anyone?s perception of what Trading looks > like these days?but the days of Trading Floors with a generally incoherent > milieu are pretty much gone. Trading teams will consist of a Trader, usually > some form of a quant/analyst/programmer, a Linux/Unix hacker typically > with at minimum very strong Python skills. Teams vary in size and required > strengths and weaknesses in any given area will also vary?but that?s the > fundamental make up. > > > > *From:* chicago-bounces+lance=roytalman.com at python.org [mailto: > chicago-bounces+lance=roytalman.com at python.org] *On Behalf Of *Massimo Di > Pierro > *Sent:* Wednesday, April 13, 2011 10:09 AM > *To:* The Chicago Python Users Group > *Subject:* Re: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior > Software Quality Engineer > > > > I disagree that bashing jobs in the financial industry is a good idea. > > > > First of all the financial industry is one of the sectors where python > adoption is growing (the SEC proposed the use of Python to model mortgage > backed securities, JS morgan is building a new trading system in NYC in > Python, Morningstar is using Disco for their cloud, etc.). It is one of > biggest sectors in US and Chicago in particular (there are more financial > exchanged here than in any two other cities in the world combined). > > > > I would agree that there are problems with the financial industry (managers > who invest other people's money like to take higher risk than they would if > it were their own money; the government likes to bail out banks in order to > keep capital flowing; there should be more regulations but the system is > complex and regulators do not agree on how to regulate it; monopolies have > arisen) but is it the only industry with problems? What about manufacturing > (think GM)? What about agriculture (think Monsanto)? > > > > The financial industry serves a purpose: it guarantees flow of capital (and > people who work can get a loan to buy a house or open a business) and fair > prices (market exchanges publish last bid/offer so that everybody knows the > fair price of every security within a few percent). > > As anything we humans do, it could operate better but that is true for any > other human endeavor. How here has written software without bugs? > > > > I for one would like to see more smart and competent people to work in the > financial industry. The problem is that it is dominated too much by people > with a business or legal background and very little technical skills. > Perhaps they will help make it better and prevent (or postpone) the next > market crash. > > > > Massimo > > > > > > > > > > > > On Apr 13, 2011, at 9:43 AM, Steve Schwarz wrote: > > > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Brian Ray wrote: > > Concerning bashing job posting based on previous experiences, eh ... > it is a free world but probably is more embarrassing to the poster > than the target. Every success business probably has had some dark > times. > > > > I think the issue here was the bashing of jobs in the financial industry > and TT was getting put in that category even though the poster (apparently) > hadn't worked there. > > > > TT being a software company, not a trading firm, makes the environment > different than most financial software development jobs you might > encounter. > > > > Full disclosure: I worked at TT for about 7 years doing C++ server side > development. > > > > Best Regards, > > Steve > Blogs: http://agilitynerd.com/ http://tech.agilitynerd.com/ > Dog Agility Search: http://googility.com/ > Dog Agility Courses: http://agilitycourses.com/ > http://www.facebook.com/AgilityNerd > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jdh2358 at gmail.com Wed Apr 13 18:04:58 2011 From: jdh2358 at gmail.com (John Hunter) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:04:58 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: References: <2B98447E-5AE9-40D2-BC5F-2423CA30D0BE@cs.depaul.edu> Message-ID: On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Steve Schwarz wrote: > I was just making the distinction between developing for a software firm vs. > developing software within a trading firm. They are different environments. > Nothing more, nothing less. I have no experience with software development > w/in a trading firm so I can't comment positively or negatively about > them.?Since I worked at TT I know the high caliber of people working there > and the technical skills they bring to developing their products. I work at a trading company -- it's a blast. Best job I ever had. I've recruited people on this list to work here too -- they seem pretty happy too. My group is fast paced, we code in python all day, we get real time feedback on our work, everyone is pretty friendly. Our company is also open source friendly -- one of the things I discussed with them when I was hired was my desire to remain lead developer of matplotlib and they were supportive since they were heavy users of OSS, and wanted to be supporters as well. I don't think you can paint any industry with a single brush -- it depends on the people you work with. JDH From verisimilidude at gmail.com Wed Apr 13 19:53:20 2011 From: verisimilidude at gmail.com (Phil Robare) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:53:20 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job postings on the mailing list In-Reply-To: <19877.47327.43051.560732@montanaro.dyndns.org> References: <19877.47327.43051.560732@montanaro.dyndns.org> Message-ID: On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:53 AM, wrote: > ... treat the posters with a respect... +1 (Rarely is it to your advantage to do the opposite.) From lifestyleignition at gmail.com Wed Apr 13 19:55:27 2011 From: lifestyleignition at gmail.com (Mark Lawrence) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:55:27 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job postings on the mailing list In-Reply-To: References: <19877.47327.43051.560732@montanaro.dyndns.org> Message-ID: +1 On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Phil Robare wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:53 AM, wrote: > > ... treat the posters with a respect... > > +1 > (Rarely is it to your advantage to do the opposite.) > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > -- Mark Lawrence http://www.lifestyleignition.com Co-Founder SpotHero Inc. http://spothero.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jsudlow at gmail.com Wed Apr 13 19:59:11 2011 From: jsudlow at gmail.com (Jon Sudlow) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:59:11 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: References: <2B98447E-5AE9-40D2-BC5F-2423CA30D0BE@cs.depaul.edu> Message-ID: Brian, Sorry if felt like I bashed your post. Didnt mean to talk bad about TT. The thing about it was when I read about the bagels and the cereal, they gave similar stuff away and catered lunch at a prop trading firm where I used to work. I guess I lumped how it was there with all kinds of trading companies. I understand that their not all the same and you may find a happy career at one and love it. Just at the one I worked at a lot of people were only their for less then a year or a little less then two years. People who appeared in the recruiting video shot 6 months before, as they premiered it to us, employees were laughing about he doesn't' work here anymore, she dosn't work here anymore haha type stuff. The people their were extremely intense, on edge and it didn't look comfortable. I felt a little jaded and probably posted where I have shouldn't. When I heard about the bagels I guess it just struck a nerve with me. apologies to tt and brian, jon On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:04 AM, John Hunter wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Steve Schwarz > wrote: > > > I was just making the distinction between developing for a software firm > vs. > > developing software within a trading firm. They are different > environments. > > Nothing more, nothing less. I have no experience with software > development > > w/in a trading firm so I can't comment positively or negatively about > > them. Since I worked at TT I know the high caliber of people working > there > > and the technical skills they bring to developing their products. > > I work at a trading company -- it's a blast. Best job I ever had. > I've recruited people on this list to work here too -- they seem > pretty happy too. My group is fast paced, we code in python all day, > we get real time feedback on our work, everyone is pretty friendly. > Our company is also open source friendly -- one of the things I > discussed with them when I was hired was my desire to remain lead > developer of matplotlib and they were supportive since they were heavy > users of OSS, and wanted to be supporters as well. > > I don't think you can paint any industry with a single brush -- it > depends on the people you work with. > > JDH > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From samir at esamir.com Wed Apr 13 20:31:11 2011 From: samir at esamir.com (Samir Faci) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:31:11 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job postings on the mailing list In-Reply-To: References: <19877.47327.43051.560732@montanaro.dyndns.org> Message-ID: +factorial(n); In general you just want to encourage job posters.. even if you're not interested.. just disregard. just my 2 cents. Also.. working for a trading company, particularly a small one can be painful.. but not every company is the same way....and working > not working. -- Samir On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > +1 > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Phil Robare > wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:53 AM, ? wrote: >> > ... treat the posters with a respect... >> >> +1 >> (Rarely is it to your advantage to do the opposite.) >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicago mailing list >> Chicago at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > > > -- > Mark Lawrence > http://www.lifestyleignition.com > Co-Founder SpotHero Inc. > http://spothero.com > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > -- Samir Faci *insert title* fortune | cowsay -f /usr/share/cows/tux.cow Sent from my non-iphone laptop. From skip at pobox.com Wed Apr 13 20:44:42 2011 From: skip at pobox.com (skip at pobox.com) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:44:42 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: References: <2B98447E-5AE9-40D2-BC5F-2423CA30D0BE@cs.depaul.edu> Message-ID: <19877.61210.234229.29222@montanaro.dyndns.org> sheila> I have a poor impression of trading companies, and was surprised sheila> to see that Brian worked for one. My intuition would be that sheila> he'd only work at a pleasant place, and I never thought a sheila> trading company would be a pleasant place. I ignore job postings sheila> for them. I work for a trading firm as well and haven't seen the need to change jobs in the past seven years. At TradeLink we have a lot of people programming in Python. Don't lump all trading firms into the same pot. I'm sure they all have their own idiosyncracies (both good and bad). Skip From mdipierro at cs.depaul.edu Wed Apr 13 21:04:59 2011 From: mdipierro at cs.depaul.edu (Massimo Di Pierro) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:04:59 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: <19877.61210.234229.29222@montanaro.dyndns.org> References: <2B98447E-5AE9-40D2-BC5F-2423CA30D0BE@cs.depaul.edu> <19877.61210.234229.29222@montanaro.dyndns.org> Message-ID: <5BF5D2B0-2101-4EEB-9B47-B97F55AE8A7C@cs.depaul.edu> I have some consulting job for some trading company in the past. The owners wanted to automate a trading strategy which - according to them - was very clear in their minds and their historical positions according to the strategy was documented. Turned out their documentation was one blurry screenshot taken the week before. They had no quantitative measure to base their decisions on. The owners could agree among themselves whether to buy or sell given the same information. Yet they expected the computer to be able to be "smart enough" to be take those decisions. No need to say the strategy was empirical, mostly based on luck, and had not theoretical foundation. I have seen this pattern in more than one place but not only in the financial industry. There are a lot of people in the world who think there is a tiny leprechaun in the computer who magically knows how to solve their problems. It is just that we do expect to find these people in places that have a reputation for making lots of money. The fact is, there is a lot of these people, everywhere. Massimo On Apr 13, 2011, at 1:44 PM, wrote: > > sheila> I have a poor impression of trading companies, and was surprised > sheila> to see that Brian worked for one. My intuition would be that > sheila> he'd only work at a pleasant place, and I never thought a > sheila> trading company would be a pleasant place. I ignore job postings > sheila> for them. > > I work for a trading firm as well and haven't seen the need to change jobs > in the past seven years. At TradeLink we have a lot of people programming > in Python. > > Don't lump all trading firms into the same pot. I'm sure they all have > their own idiosyncracies (both good and bad). > > Skip > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago From maney at two14.net Wed Apr 13 22:49:15 2011 From: maney at two14.net (Martin Maney) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:49:15 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: <1D79DA47-5FBC-4FC7-8091-EE07B3B2410E@cs.depaul.edu> References: <2B98447E-5AE9-40D2-BC5F-2423CA30D0BE@cs.depaul.edu> <1D79DA47-5FBC-4FC7-8091-EE07B3B2410E@cs.depaul.edu> Message-ID: <20110413204915.GC13650@furrr.two14.net> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:26:20AM -0500, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > Sorry, I did not mean to. I have the bad habit of not deleting text automatically included. Common symptom of top posting. There are treatments for that. :-) -- As economics is known as The Miserable Science, software engineering should be known as The Doomed Discipline, doomed because it cannot even approach its goal since its goal is self-contradictory. -- Edsger Dijkstra From maney at two14.net Wed Apr 13 22:47:54 2011 From: maney at two14.net (Martin Maney) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:47:54 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: <5BF5D2B0-2101-4EEB-9B47-B97F55AE8A7C@cs.depaul.edu> References: <2B98447E-5AE9-40D2-BC5F-2423CA30D0BE@cs.depaul.edu> <19877.61210.234229.29222@montanaro.dyndns.org> <5BF5D2B0-2101-4EEB-9B47-B97F55AE8A7C@cs.depaul.edu> Message-ID: <20110413204754.GB13650@furrr.two14.net> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 02:04:59PM -0500, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > There are a lot of people in the world who think there is a tiny > leprechaun in the computer who magically knows how to solve their > problems. Isn't that why every good Python program begins with from read_my_mind_and_do_what_i_want import * just_do_it() Best battery ever included! Not that the antigravity module isn't neat, too... -- If the best we can do is make technology as dangerous, non-robust, capricious, arcane, alienating, marginal, and costly as "magic", then we have really crappy technology. -- goliard From shekay at pobox.com Wed Apr 13 23:44:19 2011 From: shekay at pobox.com (sheila miguez) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:44:19 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: <20110413204754.GB13650@furrr.two14.net> References: <2B98447E-5AE9-40D2-BC5F-2423CA30D0BE@cs.depaul.edu> <19877.61210.234229.29222@montanaro.dyndns.org> <5BF5D2B0-2101-4EEB-9B47-B97F55AE8A7C@cs.depaul.edu> <20110413204754.GB13650@furrr.two14.net> Message-ID: On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Martin Maney wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 02:04:59PM -0500, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > >> There are a lot of people in the world who think there is a tiny >> leprechaun in the computer who magically knows how to solve their >> problems. > > Isn't that why every good Python program begins with > > ?from read_my_mind_and_do_what_i_want import * I thought this had not been ported to python. if you want that you have to use tcl. > ?just_do_it() > > Best battery ever included! ?Not that the antigravity module isn't > neat, too... but tcl doesn't have the antigravity, so a lot of people stick with python. -- sheila From lance at roytalman.com Wed Apr 13 23:36:36 2011 From: lance at roytalman.com (Lance Hassan) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:36:36 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: <5BF5D2B0-2101-4EEB-9B47-B97F55AE8A7C@cs.depaul.edu> References: <2B98447E-5AE9-40D2-BC5F-2423CA30D0BE@cs.depaul.edu> <19877.61210.234229.29222@montanaro.dyndns.org> <5BF5D2B0-2101-4EEB-9B47-B97F55AE8A7C@cs.depaul.edu> Message-ID: <1AAF941D1C57C14BBAAAA4F112A95BF808D3CBAC@DFW1MBX22.mex07a.mlsrvr.com> There are in fact some very successful traders that can do this. But as the saying goes "don't try this at home" I was having a similar conversation with a friend recently, a Sr. Quant Analyst. The person we were discussing could in fact take a look at a screen and make a call and was right at a significantly high percentage so that he was pretty much legendary (certainly not Cramer). There are probably some good reasons for this, experience, or just different brain hardwiring. (I was looking at John Hunter's co-authored paper on "Projective Clustering Using Neural Networks...") But the conclusion essentially was that trades are developed based on theoretical foundations, insight and time. Dartboards are just too slow. From what we have seen the traders believing in leprechauns hiding in monitors have pretty much evolved themselves out of the gene pool. As for working for a Trading Firm, as has already been pointed out, there are many differences and many different cultures. I know people who thrive in work environments I wouldn't be able to stand for a minute. Some places make it clear by creating an environment in the interview process which makes it clear to any candidate just what it can/will/could be like. Some places use Wunderlich tests and some use Psych profiling and some only care about Brain Bench scores...What matters in the end is what you want to be doing. Some of the most insane coding available takes place in Trading shops, but...to work in that environment can demand some cultural adaptation. -----Original Message----- From: chicago-bounces+lance=roytalman.com at python.org [mailto:chicago-bounces+lance=roytalman.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Massimo Di Pierro Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 2:05 PM To: The Chicago Python Users Group Subject: Re: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer I have some consulting job for some trading company in the past. The owners wanted to automate a trading strategy which - according to them - was very clear in their minds and their historical positions according to the strategy was documented. Turned out their documentation was one blurry screenshot taken the week before. They had no quantitative measure to base their decisions on. The owners could agree among themselves whether to buy or sell given the same information. Yet they expected the computer to be able to be "smart enough" to be take those decisions. No need to say the strategy was empirical, mostly based on luck, and had not theoretical foundation. I have seen this pattern in more than one place but not only in the financial industry. There are a lot of people in the world who think there is a tiny leprechaun in the computer who magically knows how to solve their problems. It is just that we do expect to find these people in places that have a reputation for making lots of money. The fact is, there is a lot of these people, everywhere. Massimo On Apr 13, 2011, at 1:44 PM, wrote: > > sheila> I have a poor impression of trading companies, and was surprised > sheila> to see that Brian worked for one. My intuition would be that > sheila> he'd only work at a pleasant place, and I never thought a > sheila> trading company would be a pleasant place. I ignore job postings > sheila> for them. > > I work for a trading firm as well and haven't seen the need to change > jobs in the past seven years. At TradeLink we have a lot of people > programming in Python. > > Don't lump all trading firms into the same pot. I'm sure they all > have their own idiosyncracies (both good and bad). > > Skip > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago _______________________________________________ Chicago mailing list Chicago at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago From mtobis at gmail.com Thu Apr 14 00:52:02 2011 From: mtobis at gmail.com (Michael Tobis) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:52:02 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: <1AAF941D1C57C14BBAAAA4F112A95BF808D3CBAC@DFW1MBX22.mex07a.mlsrvr.com> References: <2B98447E-5AE9-40D2-BC5F-2423CA30D0BE@cs.depaul.edu> <19877.61210.234229.29222@montanaro.dyndns.org> <5BF5D2B0-2101-4EEB-9B47-B97F55AE8A7C@cs.depaul.edu> <1AAF941D1C57C14BBAAAA4F112A95BF808D3CBAC@DFW1MBX22.mex07a.mlsrvr.com> Message-ID: Well, there's also this point of view: http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/26/friends-don%E2%80%99t-let-friends-get-into-finance/ mt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks in advance, Filip From brian.curtin at gmail.com Thu Apr 14 01:14:54 2011 From: brian.curtin at gmail.com (Brian Curtin) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:14:54 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: References: <2B98447E-5AE9-40D2-BC5F-2423CA30D0BE@cs.depaul.edu> <19877.61210.234229.29222@montanaro.dyndns.org> <5BF5D2B0-2101-4EEB-9B47-B97F55AE8A7C@cs.depaul.edu> <1AAF941D1C57C14BBAAAA4F112A95BF808D3CBAC@DFW1MBX22.mex07a.mlsrvr.com> Message-ID: On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 17:52, Michael Tobis wrote: > Well, there's also this point of view: > > > http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/26/friends-don%E2%80%99t-let-friends-get-into-finance/ > > mt For those who may be confused: The job posting is for a position at a software company, not a finance company. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From: chicago-bounces+lance=roytalman.com at python.org [mailto:chicago-bounces+lance=roytalman.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Brian Curtin Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 6:15 PM To: The Chicago Python Users Group Subject: Re: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 17:52, Michael Tobis > wrote: Well, there's also this point of view: http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/26/friends-don%E2%80%99t-let-friends-get-into-finance/ mt For those who may be confused: The job posting is for a position at a software company, not a finance company. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I disagree. It reminds of a joke I heard some time ago about different parts of the body arguing about which one is the most important. The brain thought he would win but turns out the brain does not work without an hematic system, immune system, digestive system, etc. The financial system is the equivalent of the hematic system as it deals with allocation of resources. It can also be considered as an immune system because it in charge of dealing with risk. Even in the human body these systems occasionally fail but it is better to fix them than shut them down. Massimo On Apr 13, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Michael Tobis wrote: > Well, there's also this point of view: > > http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/26/friends-don%E2%80%99t-let-friends-get-into-finance/ > > mt > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eviljoel at linux.com Thu Apr 14 03:45:04 2011 From: eviljoel at linux.com (eviljoel) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:45:04 -0400 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: References: <2B98447E-5AE9-40D2-BC5F-2423CA30D0BE@cs.depaul.edu> <19877.61210.234229.29222@montanaro.dyndns.org> <5BF5D2B0-2101-4EEB-9B47-B97F55AE8A7C@cs.depaul.edu> <1AAF941D1C57C14BBAAAA4F112A95BF808D3CBAC@DFW1MBX22.mex07a.mlsrvr.com> Message-ID: Hello Massimo, I kind of got the idea he was against deregulation and didn't like the government bailing them out. I don't think he wants the financial system to disappear. Later, EJ On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > The article seems to assume there is no social value in > pricing/buying/selling risk. I disagree. > It reminds of a joke I heard some time ago about different parts of the body > arguing about which one is the most important. The brain thought he would > win but turns out the brain does not work without an hematic system, immune > system, digestive system, etc. The financial system is the equivalent of the > hematic system as it deals with allocation of resources. It can also be > considered as an immune system because it in charge of dealing with risk. > Even in the human body these systems occasionally fail but it is better to > fix them than shut them down. > Massimo > > > > > > On Apr 13, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Michael Tobis wrote: > > Well, there's also this point of view: > > http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/26/friends-don%E2%80%99t-let-friends-get-into-finance/ > > mt > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > From carl at nextdayvideo.com Tue Apr 12 14:44:49 2011 From: carl at nextdayvideo.com (Carl Karsten) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:44:49 -0000 Subject: [Chicago] ANN: ChiPy Tribune Wed April 13, 7p Message-ID: <20110412124449.7264.58030@octave.videokollektiv.org> ChiPy ========================= When: 7 PM Wednesday April 13, 2011 Where: Tribune - You need to RSVP to get past security, see link below. Come join us for our best meeting ever! Topics ------ 1. 7:00 Best Practices for Impossible Deadlines (Christopher Groskopf) 2. 7:40 Computer-Assisted Reporting (CAR) Case Studies (Jason Grotto (Chicago Tribune), Jeff Kelly Lowenstein (Hoy)) 3. 8:20 The How and Why of Domain-Specific Languages with Python (Nate Nichols, Larry Adams (Narrative Science)) 4. 8:50 Lightning Talks (tentative) (Various Presenters) Details ------- 1. Best Practices for Impossible Deadlines Christopher Groskopf PyCon 2011 talk, general overview of how the Tribune NewsApps team has developed its methodology for building applications at the speed of news. 2. Computer-Assisted Reporting (CAR) Case Studies Jason Grotto (Chicago Tribune), Jeff Kelly Lowenstein (Hoy) Two veteran CAR reporters will describe some ways they've used data for investigative journalism. 3. The How and Why of Domain-Specific Languages with Python Nate Nichols, Larry Adams (Narrative Science) Nate will present lessons learned while designing domain specific languages in Python and Larry will demonstrate what all these great DSLs buy for Narrative Science. 4. Lightning Talks (tentative) Various Presenters If interest allows, or if questions and session switch-over-time don't go on too long, a few folks may present topical lightning talks. Location -------- Tribune Tower 435 N Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60290 RSVP and other info: http://meetupchicago.hackshackers.com About the group --------------- 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: ChiPy Mailing List: Python website: From johnstoner2 at gmail.com Thu Apr 14 05:14:31 2011 From: johnstoner2 at gmail.com (John Stoner) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:14:31 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: References: <2B98447E-5AE9-40D2-BC5F-2423CA30D0BE@cs.depaul.edu> <19877.61210.234229.29222@montanaro.dyndns.org> <5BF5D2B0-2101-4EEB-9B47-B97F55AE8A7C@cs.depaul.edu> <1AAF941D1C57C14BBAAAA4F112A95BF808D3CBAC@DFW1MBX22.mex07a.mlsrvr.com> Message-ID: It's a argument about proportion. Is buying/selling risk necessary? Yes. Should it account for 8% of the GDP? Should it absorb the best and brightest of a generation of engineers? Not seeing the case for that. Now we've gotten pretty far afield of Python. Who's excited about the DSL techniques they're talking about tomorrow night? I am. On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > The article seems to assume there is no social value in > pricing/buying/selling risk. I disagree. > > It reminds of a joke I heard some time ago about different parts of the > body arguing about which one is the most important. The brain thought he > would win but turns out the brain does not work without an hematic system, > immune system, digestive system, etc. The financial system is the equivalent > of the hematic system as it deals with allocation of resources. It can also > be considered as an immune system because it in charge of dealing with risk. > Even in the human body these systems occasionally fail but it is better to > fix them than shut them down. > > Massimo > > > > > > > On Apr 13, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Michael Tobis wrote: > > Well, there's also this point of view: > > > http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/26/friends-don%E2%80%99t-let-friends-get-into-finance/ > > mt > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > -- blogs: http://johnstoner.wordpress.com/ http://boogiepants.typepad.com/ 'In knowledge is power; in wisdom, humility.' -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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But I'm hoping more good than harm comes of it :) Garrett From g at rre.tt Thu Apr 14 07:34:25 2011 From: g at rre.tt (Garrett Smith) Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:34:25 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Native HTML5 (off topic, but web related) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Garrett Smith wrote: > If you happened across Microsoft's recent press release about "native" HTML5: > > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/04/12/native-html5-first-ie10-platform-preview-available-for-download.aspx > > and found that irritating twitch in your eye returned, this might help: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mXe9nRiPHI > > I realize this post is off-topic and terribly self indulgent. But I'm > hoping more good than harm comes of it :) Sorry, forgot the standard warning: NSFW language! From dan at streemit.net Thu Apr 14 16:37:14 2011 From: dan at streemit.net (Dan M) Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:37:14 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] ANN: ChiPy Tribune Wed April 13, 7p In-Reply-To: <20110412124449.7264.58030@octave.videokollektiv.org> References: <20110412124449.7264.58030@octave.videokollektiv.org> Message-ID: <4DA7069A.3090801@streemit.net> Any recommendations on likely places to find parking close to the Tribune building? I almost never go into the City. On 04/12/2011 07:44 AM, Carl Karsten wrote: > ChiPy > ========================= > When: 7 PM Wednesday April 13, 2011 > Where: Tribune - You need to RSVP to get past security, see link below. > > Come join us for our best meeting ever! From brianhray at gmail.com Thu Apr 14 16:47:13 2011 From: brianhray at gmail.com (Brian Ray) Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:47:13 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] ANN: ChiPy Tribune Wed April 13, 7p In-Reply-To: <4DA7069A.3090801@streemit.net> References: <20110412124449.7264.58030@octave.videokollektiv.org> <4DA7069A.3090801@streemit.net> Message-ID: On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Dan M wrote: > Any recommendations on likely places to find parking close to the Tribune > building? I almost never go into the City. > There will be some open meters east of the tower in Streeterville, like on Ohio. You can also sometimes find some west like Hubbard area. However, the meters are expensive these days :( I also would consider public transit. The closest L stop is Red Line Grand, then walk west, up the stairs to Upper Michigan AVE, cross street. Some of the parking lots have evening rates that are less expensive than meters. I also have validated with shopping... but that can be tricky too. -- Brian Ray (773) 669-7717 From joe at germuska.com Thu Apr 14 16:53:41 2011 From: joe at germuska.com (Joe Germuska) Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:53:41 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] ANN: ChiPy Tribune Wed April 13, 7p In-Reply-To: <4DA7069A.3090801@streemit.net> References: <20110412124449.7264.58030@octave.videokollektiv.org> <4DA7069A.3090801@streemit.net> Message-ID: <7066DFD0-7957-4783-A4AA-5824A68403EF@germuska.com> On Apr 14, 2011, at 9:37 AM, Dan M wrote: > Any recommendations on likely places to find parking close to the Tribune building? I almost never go into the City. I never drive, but a friend reported a parking place on N. Water street that is $12 flat after 2:30 pm. I think it's "System Parking, 219 N. Water St.", which is marked F on this map Same friend also reported that there is sometimes street parking on the lower level streets, particularly near the Billy Goat (Hubbard & Lower Michigan) Otherwise, most Michigan Ave. buses stop right outside -- right in front on NB buses, or at "Wrigley Building" on SB buses. Train riders get off at the Red Line Grand/State stop. The schedule is tight if we allow for questions and switching presentations, so we're going to try to start right at 7 pm. See you tonight Joe -- Joe Germuska Joe at Germuska.com * http://blog.germuska.com * http://twitter.com/JoeGermuska "I felt so good I told the leader how to follow." -- Sly Stone -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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But this one did make sarcastic thoughts run through my head when I read it, and given the difficulty people have finding good programmers, it's worthwhile to consider why. The financial industry does have a long-standing bad reputation among programmers for working conditions. Also, while I have no doubt there are many financial institutions out there doing "God's work," given the events of recent years, it's difficult to see one mentioned without the question of their corporate mission running through one's head. Good programmers have the luxury of discriminating among potential employers based on working environment and corporate mission, so if you're writing job postings for companies in that sector, it's probably pretty important to be aware that readers are going to be thinking about that. Bagels and fuseball are not perks. Mentioning them as if they were does not make you look good. It's like, I might have a restaurant that serves food on plastic trays, and that's perfectly valid way to serve food, but if that's part of my business I shouldn't play up that aspect in my marketing as if it were a benefit to the customer. It just makes me look cheap *and* oblivious. On the other hand, telecommuting *is* a valuable perk. I assume, when you say "we do the office thing" that what you mean is you don't allow employees to telecommute (since every company "does the office thing"). If that's your policy that's fine, but people (especially nerds) don't like sugarcoating. If there's a valuable perk you don't offer, be frank about it "we don't allow telecommuting." PS: I want to come to the meeting tonight, but that meetup group is now closed. Presumably that means that the security would turn me away at the door if I tried? From jordanb at hafd.org Thu Apr 14 21:03:00 2011 From: jordanb at hafd.org (Jordan Bettis) Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:03:00 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Analyte Health is hiring Python developers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4DA744E4.4070704@hafd.org> On 04/06/2011 10:01 AM, Brian Ray wrote: > What do you all think about job postings on this mailing list? In my > opinion, posts like this are a good thing right? By the way, I do not > know the poster but I thank them for being clear. I agree. This is exactly the thing that should be posted. I might also add that I *do* know Leon and he's an awesome guy who will no doubt be great to work with. From brian.curtin at gmail.com Thu Apr 14 21:18:13 2011 From: brian.curtin at gmail.com (Brian Curtin) Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:18:13 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: <4DA74455.5070104@hafd.org> References: <4DA74455.5070104@hafd.org> Message-ID: On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 14:00, Jordan Bettis wrote: > > I think we should continue to encourage (non recruiter) job postings > here, and as such they probably don't deserve sarcastic responses. But > this one did make sarcastic thoughts run through my head when I read it, > and given the difficulty people have finding good programmers, it's > worthwhile to consider why. > > The financial industry does have a long-standing bad reputation among > programmers for working conditions. Also, while I have no doubt there > are many financial institutions out there doing "God's work," given the > events of recent years, it's difficult to see one mentioned without the > question of their corporate mission running through one's head. > > Good programmers have the luxury of discriminating among potential > employers based on working environment and corporate mission, so if > you're writing job postings for companies in that sector, it's probably > pretty important to be aware that readers are going to be thinking about > that. > > Bagels and fuseball are not perks. Mentioning them as if they were does > not make you look good. It's like, I might have a restaurant that serves > food on plastic trays, and that's perfectly valid way to serve food, but > if that's part of my business I shouldn't play up that aspect in my > marketing as if it were a benefit to the customer. It just makes me look > cheap *and* oblivious. > > On the other hand, telecommuting *is* a valuable perk. I assume, when > you say "we do the office thing" that what you mean is you don't allow > employees to telecommute (since every company "does the office thing"). > If that's your policy that's fine, but people (especially nerds) don't > like sugarcoating. If there's a valuable perk you don't offer, be frank > about it "we don't allow telecommuting." Is there a reason people want to keep piling on the job that I tried to offer to the list? Please start a new thread to discuss topics that have nothing to do with the original topic. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It's GIGO[2:]. -- There is a germ of religion in human nature so strong that whenever an order of men can persuade the people by flattery or terror that they have salvation at their disposal,there can be no end to fraud, violence, and usurpation. -- John Adams From g at rre.tt Fri Apr 15 02:37:43 2011 From: g at rre.tt (Garrett Smith) Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:37:43 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] 'tweener Message-ID: Are we not due for something at the Bierstube? http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=resi+bierstube+chicago&ie=UTF8&hq=resi+bierstube&hnear=Chicago,+Cook,+Illinois&ll=41.965617,-87.680511&spn=0.262424,0.471725&z=11&iwloc=A From tathagatadg at gmail.com Fri Apr 15 02:50:27 2011 From: tathagatadg at gmail.com (Tathagata Dasgupta) Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:50:27 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] ANN: ChiPy Tribune Wed April 13, 7p In-Reply-To: References: <20110412124449.7264.58030@octave.videokollektiv.org> <4DA7069A.3090801@streemit.net> Message-ID: After dreaming for days for this meet up, I could not make there. Can't believe it. The best one. Ever. Arghhh ... :( Please, please, please... tell me the talks are being recorded and will be available for viewing ... On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Brian Ray wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Brian Ray wrote: > >> public transit. The closest L stop is Red Line Grand, then walk west, >> up the stairs to Upper Michigan AVE, cross street. >> > > I meant walk East toward Michigan AVE if you take the L :) > > > -- > > Brian Ray > (773) 669-7717 > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > -- Cheers, Tathagata Graduate Student Department of Computer Science University of Illinois, Chicago From brian.curtin at gmail.com Fri Apr 15 02:58:18 2011 From: brian.curtin at gmail.com (Brian Curtin) Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:58:18 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] ANN: ChiPy Tribune Wed April 13, 7p In-Reply-To: References: <20110412124449.7264.58030@octave.videokollektiv.org> <4DA7069A.3090801@streemit.net> Message-ID: On Apr 14, 2011 7:54 PM, "Tathagata Dasgupta" wrote: > > After dreaming for days for this meet up, I could not make there. > Can't believe it. The best one. Ever. Arghhh ... :( > Please, please, please... tell me the talks are being recorded and > will be available for viewing ... Yep. Carl has the cameras rolling right now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tathagatadg at gmail.com Fri Apr 15 03:37:11 2011 From: tathagatadg at gmail.com (Tathagata Dasgupta) Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:37:11 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] ANN: ChiPy Tribune Wed April 13, 7p In-Reply-To: References: <20110412124449.7264.58030@octave.videokollektiv.org> <4DA7069A.3090801@streemit.net> Message-ID: Awesome .... will eagerly wait for them to get uploaded. On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Brian Curtin wrote: > On Apr 14, 2011 7:54 PM, "Tathagata Dasgupta" wrote: >> >> After dreaming for days for this meet up, I could not make there. >> Can't believe it. The best one. Ever. Arghhh ... :( >> Please, please, please... ?tell me the talks are being recorded and >> will be available for viewing ?... > > Yep. Carl has the cameras rolling right now. > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > -- Cheers, Tathagata Graduate Student Department of Computer Science University of Illinois, Chicago From brianherman at gmail.com Fri Apr 15 05:33:54 2011 From: brianherman at gmail.com (Brian Herman) Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:33:54 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Tonights Meeting Message-ID: Can we be warned ahead of time if there is another group at our monthly meeting? I think that was not clearly presented in the emails. Thanks, Brian Herman brianjherman.com brianherman at acm.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It was definitely in the e-mails. Later, eviljoel On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Brian Herman wrote: > Can we be warned ahead of time if there is another group at our monthly > meeting? > I think that was not clearly presented in the emails. > Thanks, > Brian Herman > > brianjherman.com > brianherman at acm.org > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > From brian.curtin at gmail.com Fri Apr 15 05:42:49 2011 From: brian.curtin at gmail.com (Brian Curtin) Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:42:49 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Tonights Meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 22:33, Brian Herman wrote: > Can we be warned ahead of time if there is another group at our monthly > meeting? > I think that was not clearly presented in the emails. > The RSVP page that you signed up on was run by the other group: *Joint meeting: Chicago Hacks/Hackers & Chicago Python Users Group (ChiPy)* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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On 04/14/2011 07:37 PM, Garrett Smith wrote: > Are we not due for something at the Bierstube? > > http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=resi+bierstube+chicago&ie=UTF8&hq=resi+bierstube&hnear=Chicago,+Cook,+Illinois&ll=41.965617,-87.680511&spn=0.262424,0.471725&z=11&iwloc=A > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago From g at rre.tt Fri Apr 15 06:55:22 2011 From: g at rre.tt (Garrett Smith) Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:55:22 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Tonights Meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I was aware of the mingle, but even if not, +1 for these sort of events. A good time was had by me! On Apr 14, 2011 10:34 PM, "Brian Herman" wrote: > Can we be warned ahead of time if there is another group at our monthly > meeting? > I think that was not clearly presented in the emails. > Thanks, > Brian Herman > > brianjherman.com > brianherman at acm.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From g at rre.tt Fri Apr 15 07:07:21 2011 From: g at rre.tt (Garrett Smith) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:07:21 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] 'tweener Message-ID: I say we do both! But be prepared for sparks to fly. Maybe even a little romance? On Apr 14, 2011 11:53 PM, "Tal Liron" wrote: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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On 04/15/2011 12:07 AM, Garrett Smith wrote: > I say we do both! But be prepared for sparks to fly. Maybe even a > little romance? > > On Apr 14, 2011 11:53 PM, "Tal Liron" > wrote: > > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago From h2 at us.ibm.com Fri Apr 15 16:02:25 2011 From: h2 at us.ibm.com (Howard Hess) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:02:25 -0400 Subject: [Chicago] AUTO: Howard Hess/Chicago/IBM is out of the office until 02/14/2001. (returning 04/16/2011) Message-ID: I am out of the office until 04/16/2011. Note: This is an automated response to your message "Chicago Digest, Vol 68, Issue 29" sent on 4/15/2011 6:00:01. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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(returning 04/16/2011) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20110415151321.GB31778@furrr.two14.net> > I am out of the office until 04/16/2011. -- If the best we can do is make technology as dangerous, non-robust, capricious, arcane, alienating, marginal, and costly as "magic", then we have really crappy technology. -- goliard From kumar.mcmillan at gmail.com Fri Apr 15 21:23:16 2011 From: kumar.mcmillan at gmail.com (Kumar McMillan) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:23:16 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] ANN: ChiPy Tribune Wed April 13, 7p In-Reply-To: References: <20110412124449.7264.58030@octave.videokollektiv.org> <4DA7069A.3090801@streemit.net> Message-ID: On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Tathagata Dasgupta wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Brian Curtin wrote: >> On Apr 14, 2011 7:54 PM, "Tathagata Dasgupta" wrote: >>> >>> After dreaming for days for this meet up, I could not make there. >>> Can't believe it. The best one. Ever. Arghhh ... :( The next meeting might actually be the best ever. We'll have to wait and see... >>> Please, please, please... ?tell me the talks are being recorded and >>> will be available for viewing ?... >> >> Yep. Carl has the cameras rolling right now. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicago mailing list >> Chicago at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> >> > > > > -- > Cheers, > Tathagata > Graduate Student > Department of Computer Science > University of Illinois, Chicago > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > From brianhray at gmail.com Fri Apr 15 21:36:53 2011 From: brianhray at gmail.com (Brian Ray) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:36:53 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] ANN: ChiPy Tribune Wed April 13, 7p In-Reply-To: References: <20110412124449.7264.58030@octave.videokollektiv.org> <4DA7069A.3090801@streemit.net> Message-ID: > The next meeting might actually be the best ever. ?We'll have to wait and see... > +1 From carl at personnelware.com Fri Apr 15 22:33:04 2011 From: carl at personnelware.com (Carl Karsten) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:33:04 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] vids up Message-ID: http://twitter.com/#!/nextdayvideo -- Carl K -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Phil Robare wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Carl Karsten wrote: >>[Chicago] vids up >> >> http://twitter.com/#!/nextdayvideo >> >> Carl K > > Awesome speed getting them up Carl. ?Thanks for doing this for us. > > Phil > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > From brianherman at gmail.com Fri Apr 15 23:00:43 2011 From: brianherman at gmail.com (Brian Herman) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:00:43 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] vids up Message-ID: I see what you did there. On Apr 15, 2011 3:42 PM, "Adam Jenkins" wrote: > > In all fairness, we did get the video .... next day. > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Phil Robare wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Carl Karsten wrote: > >>[Chicago] vids up > >> > >> http://twitter.com/#!/nextdayvideo > >> > >> Carl K > > > > Awesome speed getting them up Carl. 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Thanks, Brian -- Brian Ray From steve at agilitynerd.com Fri Apr 15 23:23:30 2011 From: steve at agilitynerd.com (Steve Schwarz) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:23:30 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] ChiPy North meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Brian Ray wrote: > Any suggestions/preferences on venue ( I will check with Textura ) and > topics for next Thursday. > > ... this is for the month NORTH meting. Thanks, Brian > I'd like to suggest we move the North meeting to the first Thursday of the month. That makes it two weeks between the Chicago and North meetings and might make scheduling and organizing for each easier. WDYT? Best Regards, Steve Blogs: http://agilitynerd.com/ http://tech.agilitynerd.com/ Dog Agility Search: http://googility.com/ Dog Agility Courses: http://agilitycourses.com/ http://www.facebook.com/AgilityNerd -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Just a word of caution, changing the date frequently is probably more trouble than keeping it consistent. -- Brian Ray (773) 669-7717 From steve at agilitynerd.com Fri Apr 15 23:58:55 2011 From: steve at agilitynerd.com (Steve Schwarz) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:58:55 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] ChiPy North meeting In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Brian Ray wrote: > > I'd like to suggest we move the North meeting to the first Thursday of > the > > month. That makes it two weeks between the Chicago and North meetings and > > might make scheduling and organizing for each easier. > > > > We had this conversation before the North meeting existed. The census > was that if we are planning for the Loop meeting at the same time as > the North meeting it would get confusing due to overlap. Since the > North meeting is more manageable, it could take less then a week for > planning. On the other hand, now there exists a North group the group > should decide. Just a word of caution, changing the date frequently > is probably more trouble than keeping it consistent. > But it seems to be taking more than a week to organize the North meeting. Currently with them being a week apart the North group can't really start planning any sooner than a week out to keep from confusing people going to the Loop meeting, so it makes it harder to organize the North meeting. By being two weeks apart there is actually less opportunity for overlap. My proposal is to permanently change the meetings to be two weeks apart thereby keeping it consistent. So the North meeting would always be the first Thursday of the month. Steve -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tathagatadg at gmail.com Sat Apr 16 02:53:34 2011 From: tathagatadg at gmail.com (Tathagata Dasgupta) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:53:34 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] vids up In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks for posting the videos ... "Best Ever" scale keeps soaring.... On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Dan Krol wrote: > http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rR8j5DGLVCA/S67HA3IhPQI/AAAAAAAAAHw/idau3-yRLo0/s400/Instant+CSI.png > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Brian Herman wrote: >> I see what you did there. >> >> On Apr 15, 2011 3:42 PM, "Adam Jenkins" wrote: >>> >>> In all fairness, we did get the video .... next day. >>> >>> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Phil Robare >>> wrote: >>> > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Carl Karsten >>> > wrote: >>> >>[Chicago] vids up >>> >> >>> >> http://twitter.com/#!/nextdayvideo >>> >> >>> >> Carl K >>> > >>> > Awesome speed getting them up Carl. ?Thanks for doing this for us. >>> > >>> > Phil >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Chicago mailing list >>> > Chicago at python.org >>> > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Chicago mailing list >>> Chicago at python.org >>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Chicago mailing list >> Chicago at python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > -- Cheers, Tathagata Graduate Student Department of Computer Science University of Illinois, Chicago From jordanb at hafdconsulting.com Thu Apr 14 20:24:53 2011 From: jordanb at hafdconsulting.com (Jordan Bettis) Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:24:53 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4DA73BF5.5090009@hafdconsulting.com> I think we should continue to encourage (non recruiter) job postings here, and as such they probably don't deserve sarcastic responses. But this one did make sarcastic thoughts run through my head when I read it, and given the difficulty people have finding good programmers, it's worthwhile to consider why. The financial industry does have a long-standing bad reputation among programmers for working conditions. Also, while I have no doubt there are many financial institutions out there doing "God's work," given the events of recent years, it's difficult to see one mentioned without the question of their corporate mission running through one's head. Good programmers have the luxury of discriminating among potential employers based on working environment and corporate mission, so if you're writing job postings for companies in that sector, it's probably pretty important to be aware that readers are going to be thinking about that. Bagels and fuseball are not perks. Mentioning them as if they were does not make you look good. It's like, I might have a restaurant that serves food on plastic trays, and that's perfectly valid way to serve food, but if that's part of my business I shouldn't play up that aspect in my marketing as if it were a benefit to the customer. It just makes me look cheap *and* oblivious. On the other hand, telecommuting *is* a valuable perk. I assume, when you say "we do the office thing" that what you mean is you don't allow employees to telecommute (since every company "does the office thing"). If that's your policy that's fine, but people (especially nerds) don't like sugarcoating. If there's a valuable perk you don't offer, be frank about it "we don't allow telecommuting." PS: I want to come to the meeting tonight, but that meetup group is now closed. Presumably that means that the security would turn me away at the door if I tried? From jordanb at hafd.org Sun Apr 17 06:05:26 2011 From: jordanb at hafd.org (Jordan Bettis) Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:05:26 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Trading Technologies - Senior Software Quality Engineer In-Reply-To: <4DA73BF5.5090009@hafdconsulting.com> References: <4DA73BF5.5090009@hafdconsulting.com> Message-ID: <4DAA6706.6020607@hafd.org> On 04/14/2011 01:24 PM, Jordan Bettis wrote: > [[ snip ]] I wish the moderators hadn't approved this, which was my original attempt to post this message from the wrong email address several days ago. Sorry for the dup everyone. From eric.t.hanley at gmail.com Thu Apr 21 04:27:22 2011 From: eric.t.hanley at gmail.com (Eric Hanley) Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:27:22 -0400 Subject: [Chicago] OLPC Meet Up at PS:1 this Saturday noon Message-ID: This Saturday Chicago's Hackerspace Pumping Station: One will be hosting a One Laptop Per Child meetup. We are trying to gather the OLPC and Python communities in one place to talk OLPC, Sugar (Python), Open Source, and Humanitarian efforts. Agenda * Meet the OLPC Chicago Community * Disscuss OLPC, Past, Present, and Future * Demo Working and Broken XO's * Demo Sugar On a Stick VM * TED Videos on OLPC * Lightning Talks Down the Pipe * Python Classes * How To VM Sugar * Beauty in Design: the XO * XO Modding Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=217026981644752&index=1 PS:1 is located: near Belmont Blue Line 3354 N. Elston Chicago, IL 60618 Chicago, IL Come around noon and stay as long as you like. Other things going on at PS:1 on Saturday include a Makerbot/Rep Rap build day, as well as the GGHC Biosense build. Please come out and bring your friends! -- ----------------8<-------------[ cut here ]------------------ Eric Hanley twitter.com/erichanley facebook.com/ericthanley wiki.pumpingstationone.org/index.php/User:Ehanley ------------------------------------------------------------------ -- From d-beazley at sbcglobal.net Fri Apr 22 23:49:29 2011 From: d-beazley at sbcglobal.net (David Beazley) Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:49:29 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Upcoming Python Courses in Chicago/Andersonville In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <33EAE024-8430-4567-BAC3-D7DA8B31AB61@sbcglobal.net> Chipy, Just a quick note to let everyone know about some upcoming Python courses in Chicago. More details are available at http://www.dabeaz.com/chicago/index.html. May 16-20, 2011. Practical Python Programming ------------------------------------------------------------------- Python core developer Raymond Hettinger is coming to Chicago to put his spin on my most introductory Python course as well as bringing an interesting assortment of his own material. Raymond is well known for his Pycon presentations, is a board member of the PSF, and has contributed a variety of modern features to Python including sets, itertools, collections, generator expressions, and more. In Chipy parlance, this course is going to be the best one yet. May 20, 2011. Learn Hard Python the Harder Way -------------------------------------------------------------------- An intense 3 hour seminar with David Beazley on a variety of "hard" Python topics including the design of the object system, inheritance, super(), descriptors, functions, closures, decorators, context-managers, and metaclasses. Raymond Hettinger will also be on-hand to administer first-aid if necessary. June 1-3, 2011. Python Concurrency and Distributed Systems Workshop -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the workshop that spawned the infamous GIL presentations given at past Chipy meetings. If you liked the GIL talk, then you would probably like the other 20 hours of material that you haven't seen. Topics include threads, messaging, multiprocessing, event-driven I/O, coroutines, and more. Again, more information is at http://www.dabeaz.com/chicago/index.html. Cheers, Dave From eviljoel at linux.com Thu Apr 21 17:08:03 2011 From: eviljoel at linux.com (eviljoel) Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:08:03 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] BARcamp Chicago 2011 - July 9th & 10th - Save the Date Message-ID: Greetings, The sixth annual BARcamp Chicago "Unconference" will be held on July 9th & 10th at the community makerspace Pumping Station: One. BARcamp Chicago is a great place to learn new skills, network with the best of Chicago's tech community and maybe even get a head start on founding your own business. But unlike regular conferences, at BARcamp it is the attendees who hold the talks and run the activities. If you are a technology enthusiast and have a desire to teach or learn, BARcamp Chicago is an event you will not want to miss. Right now we are trying to get an idea of who is planning to attend this year. While registration is not required, if you are planning to attend we would appreciate it if you sign up on our EventBrite: http://barcampchicago.eventbrite.com/. If you would like more information about BARcamp Chicago, our website is http://www.barcampchicago.org/. If you would like to provide suggestions about what you want and don't want to see at this year's BARcamp, please do so at http://barcampchicago.uservoice.com/. Finally, if you are interested in helping plan BARcamp Chicago, please sign up on our planning list here: http://groups.google.com/group/barcamp-chicago/. BARcamp is only possible by generous contributions from sponsors. If your company is interested in sponsoring BARcamp Chicago, please e-mail Kevin at kharriss at barcampchicago.org. Hope to see you there, Joel Luellwitz From chris.mcavoy at gmail.com Mon Apr 25 16:25:32 2011 From: chris.mcavoy at gmail.com (Chris McAvoy) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:25:32 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Pycon Bid? Message-ID: Hi All, Remember years and years ago when Atul & Ted put together a "why Chicago should host Pycon?" document? I think it was on our wiki for a while. Does anyone have a link or a copy of it? The new organizers of the Chicago Djangonauts are suggesting Chicago as a host city to Djangocon, and would like to see what we did to get Pycon here. Chris -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alex.gaynor at gmail.com Mon Apr 25 16:31:11 2011 From: alex.gaynor at gmail.com (Alex Gaynor) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:31:11 -0400 Subject: [Chicago] Pycon Bid? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Chris McAvoy wrote: > Hi All, > > Remember years and years ago when Atul & Ted put together a "why Chicago > should host Pycon?" document? I think it was on our wiki for a while. Does > anyone have a link or a copy of it? The new organizers of the Chicago > Djangonauts are suggesting Chicago as a host city to Djangocon, and would > like to see what we did to get Pycon here. > > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > I want to say its somewhere on the site. Something to keep in mind is that our proposal for PyCon was out in Rosemont, whereas I think everyone would rather it be in the city, is possible for DjangoCon. 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We will be moving old pages to the new site as part of the ChiPy Python Mentor Program which is going really well BTW. -- Brian -- Brian Ray -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chris.mcavoy at gmail.com Mon Apr 25 16:49:36 2011 From: chris.mcavoy at gmail.com (Chris McAvoy) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:49:36 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Pycon Bid? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Awesome...thanks Brian! Alex - totally agreed on wanting to keep it in the city. Chris On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Brian Ray wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Chris McAvoy wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Remember years and years ago when Atul & Ted put together a "why Chicago >> should host Pycon?" document? I think it was on our wiki for a while. Does >> anyone have a link or a copy of it? The new organizers of the Chicago >> Djangonauts are suggesting Chicago as a host city to Djangocon, and would >> like to see what we did to get Pycon here. >> >> > http://old.chipy.org/ChiPyCon_2008_Bid/ > > However, this link will expire at the end of this month. We will be moving > old pages to the new site as part of the ChiPy Python Mentor Program which > is going really well BTW. > > -- Brian > > > > -- > > Brian Ray > > > > _______________________________________________ > Chicago mailing list > Chicago at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From KBoers at leapfrogonline.com Mon Apr 25 19:20:23 2011 From: KBoers at leapfrogonline.com (Kevin Boers) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:20:23 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Job opening: Leapfrog Online - Test Engineer Message-ID: Hello! I'm looking to add a Python user to my team for a Test Engineering position. 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From steve at agilitynerd.com Tue Apr 26 21:25:13 2011 From: steve at agilitynerd.com (Steve Schwarz) Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:25:13 -0500 Subject: [Chicago] Proposal for 9 June Loop meeting In-Reply-To: <20110426185947.GL23213@bill-desktop> References: <20110426185947.GL23213@bill-desktop> Message-ID: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Bill Mania wrote: > ChiPy: > > Eric Kinzle and I would like to demonstrate and describe a ROS- > and OpenCV-based Python application which controls an automated > camera pan and tilt system to track an object. > +1 ! Best Regards, Steve Blogs: http://agilitynerd.com/ http://tech.agilitynerd.com/ Dog Agility Search: http://googility.com/ Dog Agility Courses: http://agilitycourses.com/ http://www.facebook.com/AgilityNerd -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: