From stuart at swilliams.ca Thu Jan 19 23:22:04 2012 From: stuart at swilliams.ca (Stuart Williams) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:22:04 -0600 Subject: [Python Wpg] Free 3-hour Python course in Winnipeg Message-ID: <CAO3p=81hXDkYWWMruJH8aRCrCd3-MGCm0ER5svXfg=Lm6D1iWQ@mail.gmail.com> I'm teaching this intermediate Python course at PyCon in March: https://us.pycon.org/2012/schedule/presentation/276/ I'd like to practice it before the conference, so I'm planning to offer the course here in Winnipeg Wednesday February 8th in the evening, free of charge! It's a 3-hour course so it will probably be 6:00 to 9:15 p.m., perhaps with pizza or other food (not free) at 5:45 p.m. Please reply to me (not the entire list unless you want to) and let me know if you are interested, and if the date and time don't work, some idea of what dates and times would. If lots are interested but few can make the date and/or time I can change them. Location is to be determined based in part on numbers. Stuart Williams. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/winnipeg/attachments/20120119/c459b6ab/attachment.html> From stuart at swilliams.ca Mon Jan 23 20:24:15 2012 From: stuart at swilliams.ca (Stuart Williams) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:24:15 -0600 Subject: [Python Wpg] Free 3-hour Python course in Winnipeg In-Reply-To: <CAO3p=81hXDkYWWMruJH8aRCrCd3-MGCm0ER5svXfg=Lm6D1iWQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAO3p=81hXDkYWWMruJH8aRCrCd3-MGCm0ER5svXfg=Lm6D1iWQ@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <CAO3p=814hJCHzY-ewXsTQXNz-GPT0hn6hDYwQ6di0ffLdABdCw@mail.gmail.com> I've had six positive replies, so we'll be proceeding with February 8th. If others are interested let me know. I'll post once or twice more to this list when we know more details so others can join or spread the word to others that may be interested. Stuart. On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Stuart Williams <stuart at swilliams.ca>wrote: > I'm teaching this intermediate Python course at PyCon in March: > https://us.pycon.org/2012/schedule/presentation/276/ > > I'd like to practice it before the conference, so I'm planning to offer > the course here in Winnipeg Wednesday February 8th in the evening, free of > charge! It's a 3-hour course so it will probably be 6:00 to 9:15 p.m., > perhaps with pizza or other food (not free) at 5:45 p.m. > > Please reply to me (not the entire list unless you want to) and let me > know if you are interested, and if the date and time don't work, some idea > of what dates and times would. If lots are interested but few can make the > date and/or time I can change them. Location is to be determined based in > part on numbers. > > Stuart Williams. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/winnipeg/attachments/20120123/870e01a1/attachment.html> From kveroneau at gmail.com Tue Jan 24 02:04:42 2012 From: kveroneau at gmail.com (Kevin Veroneau) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:04:42 -0600 Subject: [Python Wpg] A Python cloud service for all Python developers in beta now! Message-ID: <CAK=AUw9fyMr_n31diSuS3JRNdGBX9LS-wo+sjwwO=ar3vO=HiQ@mail.gmail.com> Hello Everyone! I am on the LinkedIn Python Developers group and just saw the most interesting post about this Python web service running on Amazon's EC2. Currently it is in beta, and if you sign-up at the right time, you will be emailed a invitation link. This service is not only for Web Developers, but for all Python Developers. It allows any Python developers to dynamically run any Python code in any web-browser on any OS anywhere in the world(Yes it will work on your iPhone and iPad). It has a persistent server-side Python session, which is basically a Python prompt in your web browser. If you close your browser and say move to a different computer and re-open the website, you will see the Python prompt just as you left it. This allows one to show examples and output easily with anyone. It also supports some collaboration tools, where more than 1 user can share a single Python shell session. I just received my invitation and will be writing a review based on the beta version of the software. Since it also support web apps, it may be a good replacement for my current webapp configuration. It is currently free, and when it comes out of beta, there will be a free tier, as well as a paid tier for more complex usages, such as requiring more CPU cycles from Amazon's EC2 cloud. The billing is utility based, so you only pay for what you use, which makes it valuable just to have around, even if it's only used a few times a month or even a year. Here is their website: http://www.pythonanywhere.com/ They have a video on their website displaying the software in use at a recent PyCon. Enjoy! Kevin Veroneau -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/winnipeg/attachments/20120124/ff83b83a/attachment.html> From kveroneau at gmail.com Sat Jan 28 15:32:07 2012 From: kveroneau at gmail.com (Kevin Veroneau) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:32:07 -0600 Subject: [Python Wpg] Starting a new Python blog Message-ID: <CAK=AUw9nVF1megFgWp-iOJoK+B32GjcMca6dcngW7tgSoZNgqA@mail.gmail.com> Hello Everyone, For sometime now I have been itching to create a Python blog, and now the fruits of my labour have paid off. I am ready to release the blog to the public eyes. At the moment it has 2 main features, a blog portion, and a bookmark system. Both the blog and the bookmark system offer an RSS Atom feed. The bookmark system is fully compatible with "Live Bookmarks" to quickly access some of my top Python sites I visit or visited recently which caught my eye. The website is called "Python Diary", a rather unique take on a tech blog name. The site itself has a diary-like theme, and is for the most part very easily to navigate. The website was completely built using Python, the theme was taken from a wordpress theme website and formatted to work with the Django template system. The entire backend is written from scratch using a few reusable Django apps, namely, django-tagging, south, and cumulus. Now you might be saying, "Oh great, yet another Python blog". But wait... I plan on setting this blog apart from the thousands of other blogs in the world with some very unique features. Features normally found on commercial software blogs, movie and video game blogs is a thorough review system. I plan on going through many of the available Python packages out there in the wild and basically reviewing them like one would review anything else. I do not see a dedicated Python website which has reviews of many Python packages available in PyPi. I plan on stating the usual pros and cons of the package, and providing a score. For example of how this type of review is formatted, take a look at a CNET Review. My new blog can be found here: http://www.pythondiary.com/ Tell me what you think of the website in general, and the overall idea for this blog. If you would like to subscribe to the upcoming content, add this RSS feed to your favorite RSS reader: http://www.pythondiary.com/blog.xml Kevin Veroneau -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/winnipeg/attachments/20120128/2ff61424/attachment.html>