Ultimate Language Shootout IV: CoffeeScript
By: Feihong Hsu
Date: June 13, 2013, 7:02 p.m.
A brief introduction to CoffeeScript.
Ultimate Language Shootout IV: QUASI
By: Randy Baxley
Date: June 13, 2013, 7:01 p.m.
1977 - A language, the description of which was handed to me on about one hundred and fifty mimeographed eight and one half by eleven sheets. Robert Sibley handed it to the class to use as our compiler project.
Hy: A Lisp that transforms itself into the ython AST.
By: Christopher Webber
Date: May 9, 2013, 7:45 p.m.
Who saved The Onion, from being hacked by "Syrian Electronic Army"
By: Sean Bloomfield
Date: May 9, 2013, 8:10 p.m.
Well, this isn't at all Python related (or even all that technical), but at The Onion, we recently had a little run-in with the "hackers" from the "Syrian Electronic Army", and could talk about some lessons learned from that, if there's any interest.
Concurrency in Python and other Languages
By: Daniel Griffin
Date: April 11, 2013, 7 p.m.
- 1 minute pitch about OpDemand and what we do.
- Processing HTTP requests with Twisted.
- Dealing with blocking code in Twisted (couchdb-python and pika).
- Doing long running work with Celery from Twisted.
- Communicating between web workers with ZMQ.
- Writing code that can be concurrent.
SXSW Interactive 2013
By: Adam Forsyth
Date: April 11, 2013, 7 p.m.
- Themes
- Keynotes
- Chicago Tech @ SXSW
- Other Highlights
- Q&A
Threadless Loves Python
By: Mike Steder
Date: April 11, 2013, 7 p.m.
In the last year the Threadless engineering department has almost completely changed from PHP and MySQL to Python and MongoDB. I would like to do a brief overview of how we use Python today which will cover our replatformed website, our API, and our internal message queuing system.
Using PyJnius to talk to Android devices
By: Matt Dorn
Date: March 21, 2013, 8 p.m.
Overview of a library that facilitates communication with Android devices via Python -- depending on interest, could include an overview of other Python/Java libraries and/or other ways to use Python with Android.