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For those of you who were unable to make it to this year’s PyOhio, the talks are now online:
http://python.mirocommunity.org/category/pyohio-2010
I’d like to thank the staff of this year’s conference for all their hard work, and thank the speakers for donating their time and talents toward the community’s betterment.
And yes, we’ve recorded our podcast’s review of the conference and it will be up this weekend.
Jun.15,2010There are new episodes of both The Secret Lair and From Python Import Podcast available for your consumption.
Note: Apologies for the sound quality on both of these shows. My studio equipment is packed for the move, so we had to us my Zoom H4.
Jun.10,2010To those of you listening to From Python Inport Podcast, we recorded ep 004 yesterday and it should be dropping this weekend. Sorry for the delay…my purchase of a house and all that goes with it (packing, etc) has made it difficult to get all of us in one room to record. However, the next episode is made of 24-karat WIN and we think you’ll enjoy it.
Possible titles include Dave Hates Decorators or The Standard Library: Graveyard of Code.
Look for it to drop this weekend.
May.13,2010This is a talk I gave last night at the Cleveland Web Standard Meetup, introducing the Python-based web framework Django. It is a very, very basic talk, meant to introduce the concepts without digging into the code too deeply.
I want to thank Bridget Stewart, David Mead, Brad Colbow, Brad Dielman, Dave, and Joe Fiorini for being good sports when I turned them into my Living Web Application demonstration at the end of the talk.
Exploring Django, part 1 from Christopher T. Miller on Vimeo.
For part 2, I’m thinking about drafting some of the members of the Cleveland Python meetup to join me, and we’ll have the meeting break into groups and write a simple Django app from scratch.
(Note: Rewatching this, I realize a made a few errors. Oops. Boy, was I tired. I apologize to the Django team if I got anything horribly wrong.)
Filed Under : Python by Chris Miller May.1,2010Episode Two of From Python Import Podcast is the first of two episodes where we’re going to explore PEP 20, that is, The Zen of Python.
Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. Flat is better than nested. Sparse is better than dense. Readability counts. Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules. Although practicality beats purity. Errors should never pass silently. Unless explicitly silenced. In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess. There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it. Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you’re Dutch. Now is better than never. Although never is often better than *right* now. If the implementation is hard to explain, it’s a bad idea. If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea. Namespaces are one honking great idea — let’s do more of those!
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