[Chicago] Marmir Initial Feedback

sheila miguez shekay at pobox.com
Thu Jan 24 16:31:52 CET 2013


I'll give you the same suggestions that I gave to the other person who
showed up to python office hours the other day with similar questions.

Yes to your question about version control and such. These are important
and not just for open source developers.

I enthusiastically agree with Cezar about the hitchhikers guide and have
been meaning to link it for python office hours.

I respectfully disagree that you need to use a spreadsheet, and will
suggest other things when I'm not typing from my phone. but off the top of
my head, if you really want tables and charts then you could store your
records in Google tables and use Google charts. but I will disagree with
using those for real. I just want to give an example of something that is
spreadsheet-like to help you grok things.

Since you are starting out fresh on web development I'll suggest the same
that I suggested during office hours. First, get comfortable with git and
command line tools and deployment by working through the heroku flask
tutorial. but if the tutorial has concepts that are too unfamiliar and you
need more examples then let us know and we can find or make a better
tutorial. I'm going to be wanting something like this for my niece soon.

On Jan 24, 2013 9:11 AM, "Randy Baxley" <randy7771026 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes this information is normally displayed in a spreadsheet which is the
> first step then I would want the user to be able to decide how they want to
> graph it.
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Unless you want make spreadsheets, you do not need Marmir.
>>
>> If you do want to play with it, you can pip install it:  pip install
>> Marmir
>>
>> Concerning your other wants, perhaps look at web2py or some other easy to
>> entry framework.
>>
>>
>> On Jan 24, 2013, at 8:23 AM, Randy Baxley <randy7771026 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Oh and not just on their on computer but also on website were they can
>> share that information with others and a database can be built so everyone
>> does not have to hand input any data not already available.  Then too does
>> anyone know yet of an app for scanning either the nutrition information,
>> bar code or that squiggley thing and getting the data to use in a program?
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Randy Baxley <randy7771026 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I have a github account.  Two days old and a Git loaded.  Then there is
>>> a Gui for Windows and a Git Bash.  The Git Bash looks familiar from DOS
>>> days but I suppose is really some Apple thing.  Question is, now that I
>>> have a bit of an understanding of Python do I have to learn Git and
>>> therefore Bash and Linux to actually become effective in the open source
>>> online environments.  Second question is if I want to build a web site and
>>> retain the code and the feel of the website as my own so that I can seek
>>> investors and advertisers how does that work in the world of open source.
>>>  But more to the here and now.  How do I use these tools to get Mirmar and
>>> write a Python program to send it lists that would display names, weights,
>>> foods eaten and nutrition for those foods and then be able to chose how to
>>> graph subsets of those variables against time.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Looking forward to some feedback on Marmir (
>>>> http://brianray.github.com/mm/): Python Powered Spreadsheets. I
>>>> presented on this in the last Loop meeting
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Oon2Bo8tE.
>>>>
>>>> Since the meeting, improved CSS-like style support, added some Django
>>>> (in contrib) and now supports Google Spreadsheet. Also put it on PyPI so
>>>> would appreciate any feedback on that, as well.
>>>>
>>>> A beer goes to anyone who adds a valid issue (defect, improvement,
>>>> feature, ...) on github https://github.com/brianray/mm/issues . IF a
>>>> beer is not sufficient carrot, I can provide a sincere thank you! Pull
>>>> requests will make you a super star.
>>>>
>>>> have fun!
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Brian Ray
>>>> @brianray
>>>> (773) 669-7717
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