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The Chicago Process: How Braintree Develops Software By: Adam Forsyth
Date: Dec. 12, 2013, 7:01 p.m.
Braintree needs to be highly available and secure, while still maintaining a rapid development pace and strict backwards compatibility. In order to achieve that, we use what has become known as the "Chicago Process". This involves pairing, strict TDD, a team structure, and weekly iterations, all to empower the devs to make decisions and get work of a high quality done while avoiding siloing.
A Visual Guide To Pandas By: Jason Wirth
Date: Dec. 12, 2013, 7:40 p.m.
Pandas is the data-munging Swiss Army knife of the Python world. Often you know how your data should look but it's not so obvious how to get there, so I'll present a visual approach to learning the library and data manipulation.
Storm (with python (and a side of clojure)) By: Philip Doctor
Date: Dec. 12, 2013, 8 p.m.
A walking tour of Storm, what it is, what you can do, and how you can use it with python.
CivicLab and Between the Bars By: Benjamin Sugar
Date: Nov. 14, 2013, 7:33 p.m.
In this talk, I will present on a slice of the maker movement called "civic making" and a new space that has opened up in Chicago to encourage this type creation, CivicLab. As an example of "civic making" I will discuss Between the Bars, a paper based blogging platform for those who are incarcerated, built in Django. I will also discuss our choice in framework and the pros/cons of our approach.
What happened at #aaronswhack? By: Sheila Miguez
Date: Nov. 14, 2013, 9 p.m.
Many python programmers showed up to participate in the Chicago #aaronswhack. Here's a list of what they worked on, and here are pointers to local projects as well as worldwide projects.
Monoids in Python By: Philip Doctor
Date: Nov. 14, 2013, 7:44 p.m.
Monoids are largely badly explained, but actually quite beautiful. I would like to take a brief tour of what a monoid is and how they can help out with mundane every day tasks in python.
Measure It By: Peter Fein
Date: Nov. 14, 2013, 7 p.m.
measure_it provides timing and counting for iterators (and other code segments). https://measure_it.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
PyData Recap Lightning Talk By: Jason Wirth
Date: Nov. 14, 2013, 11 p.m.
Recap of last weeks PyData conference in NYC.
Python heart Open Source Hardware By: Paul Ebreo
Date: Nov. 14, 2013, 10 p.m.
Open Source Hardware is going to change the world. But the hardware is still going to need software to control it. Can Python take the lead and become the de facto language of open source hardware control? Paul Ebreo talks about the three keys to Python's success in open hardware.
Finite State Machine: fysom
Date: Oct. 10, 2013, 8:30 p.m.