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In-project virtualenvs By: Christopher Webber
Date: May 9, 2013, 8 p.m.
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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.
Hy: A Lisp that transforms itself into the ython AST. By: Christopher Webber
Date: May 9, 2013, 7:45 p.m.
apprenticeship model By: JP Bader
Date: May 9, 2013, 8:20 p.m.
Pythonic protégés.
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.
SXSW Interactive 2013 By: Adam Forsyth
Date: April 11, 2013, 7 p.m.
- Themes - Keynotes - Chicago Tech @ SXSW - Other Highlights - Q&A
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.
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.
Python Deployments at The Onion (and elsewhere) By: Chris Sinchok
Date: March 21, 2013, 7:20 p.m.
Chris will cover various Python deployment strategies and technologies, ranging from the naïve (git pull) to the more robust (fabric, capistrano) to the "Enterprise" (Python native package deployments, etc). In order to illustrate these different strategies and technologies, he will take examples from my past projects, and the constantly-evolving Onion deploy process.