Go: Concurrency is Built In
By: Chris Foresman
Date: May 14, 2015, 7 p.m.
Discussing the pros and cons of Golang from a Python user's perspective, particularly focusing on its built-in support for concurrency and the advantages over asyncio.
Is True true? : A mini-venture into Python & Ruby truth testing
By: Lorena Nicole
Date: May 14, 2015, 7 p.m.
Review of truth testing in Python and Ruby. If "Explicit is better than Implicit" then why does Python decide that values like empty sequences are "falsey"? How is it that Ruby only defines false and nil as false values, isn't this more explicit?
Highlight how languages embed their own philosophies of what is correct and true with surprising overlaps and at times odd contradictions.
QML vs. Python
By: Patrick K. O'Brien
Date: May 14, 2015, 7 p.m.
If you think Python is Pythonic, wait until you see QML from the point of view of an experienced Python developer. QML is the Qt Meta Language or Qt Modeling Language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QML
as former C# developer the lessons I learned to become pythonic
By: JC LatinoTV
Date: May 14, 2015, 7 p.m.
language comparison in 5 minutes
Postscript. Yes, it's a programming language
By: Ken Schutte
Date: May 14, 2015, 7 p.m.
I'll describe Postscript - a interpreted, stack-based "page description language" used to produce vector graphics and documents.
From Code to Coffee Table with Blender
By: Matt Meshulam
Date: March 12, 2015, 8 p.m.
I've been developing a Python library for turning 3D models into CNC-machinable parts. I will demonstrate the basics of the library and how I used it to build a wood coffee table.
A Talk on Giving a Pythonic Talk
By: Xan Vongsathorn
By: Catherine Vongsathorn
Date: March 12, 2015, 7 p.m.
Xan Vongsathorn and Catherine Vongsathorn will be giving a talk about talks. It turns out that many of python's core principles apply very well to presentations -- or for that matter, communication more generally -- which may be why we like python so much. Xan and Catherine want to get people excited not only about giving talks but also about using them to *actually communicate*. You don’t have to be an expert, nor do you need natural talent, to give a good talk; this metatalk will discuss guiding principles that set effective presentations apart and can be applied to any technical talk.
Django+Elasticsearch+Haystack to Search PDFs and Such
By: Joe Jasinski
Date: Feb. 12, 2015, 7 p.m.
Have you ever wanted to search the contents of uploaded PDFs, Docs, and other document formats on your website? Django Haystack (with the Elasticsearch search backend) is a great way to add search to your site, but it does not support full document indexing out of the box. I'd like to share a solution that I cobbled together to allow this combination of tools the ability to search document contents