You Down With EPP? Yeah, You Know Me!
By: Jason Wirth
Date: June 12, 2014, 7 p.m.
You Down With EPP? Yeah, You Know Me!
In this talk I'll discuss the Embarrassing Parallel Problems and introduce the basics of GPU computing with Python.
An IRC Connection: Implementation and Bot
By: Aaron Brady
Date: May 8, 2014, 7:50 a.m.
IRC is a protocol for text exchanges with multiple recipients with publish/subscribe capabilities. A basic program that interacts with an IRC server is easy to make, but becomes more difficult with additional functionality. The task involves a few domains: sockets, parsing, and a multi-way mapping object for the state. We take a look at 4 custom modules to get it done: Multi-connection dispatch, Raw to dict, Connection model, and Relation; plus one for "main" for the bot itself.
PyCon Lightning Talks
By: Jason Wirth
Date: May 8, 2014, 7:25 p.m.
Let's go over what people saw at PyCon
DJ'ing our site - How & why we replatformed to Django
By: Jake Kreider
Date: May 8, 2014, 7 a.m.
We'd like to discuss Zoro’s adoption of Django for our main website — What the key motivators were, the result, and lessons learned from the experience.
Simple Websockets in Flask
By: Daniel Hodges
Date: March 13, 2014, 7:45 p.m.
Using flask, websockets, and redis to make a simple multi-user drawing surface in D3.
Starting Over From Scratch
By: Malcolm Newsome
Date: March 13, 2014, 7 p.m.
Often developers get too attached to the code that they write. So much so that we dread losing it. But, what happens when you intentionally delete code and rewrite it? You might be surprised at the result.
Curiosity.com
By: Christopher Coté
Date: Feb. 6, 2014, 7 p.m.
I am Director of Engineering for Discovery Communications Emerging Business and Strategy team. We just relaunched Curiosity.com. We use Python all over the place along with MongoDB/Redis/ElasticSearch
The site lives within AWS utilizing several of their services. Including EC2, ELB, Route53, Cloudwatch, S3
I would like to discuss our overall architecture and our use/love of Python. And answer any questions on architecture/scalability/process/code.
There were 986 roadway fatalities in Illinois in 2013. Where's the data?
By: Nick Bennett
Date: Jan. 9, 2014, 9 p.m.
Seen on garish LED roadway signs all around Chicago on New Year's Eve, 2013: 986 TRAFFIC DEATHS IN 2013. It leads to many questions: On what roads? When did the accidents happen? What do we do now? I'm scared to drive. I will talk about purging my fears by finding the data to answer some of those questions. http://tothebeat.github.io/fatal-car-crashes/ This talk will involve PythonAnywhere, IPython, a module that's not even on PyPi (dbfpy), searching for and finding open government data, CartoDB, Google Fusion Tables, csv, and maybe Pandas. Rest assured, there will be no graphic photos.