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Category : Coding and Hacking

Talking about Django with the CWSA

Filed Under : Announcements,Cleveland,Coding and Hacking,Python by Chris Miller

Apr.19,2010

I’m giving a talk at the May 12th meeting of the Cleveland Web Standards Meetup. Details:

Exploring Django Part One, or, I Made a Half-Monkey/Half-Pony To Please You

In this first part of a three-part talk, Evil Overlord Chris Miller will show all the budding Evil Masterminds who attend how to get started with the Python-based Django web application framework. Topics covered will include:

URL Mapping for Fun and Profit,
Templating Engines for the Faint of Heart, and
Girding Thy Loins With The Power of Data Models.

Souls of the innocent will not be provided — expect to bring your own and some to share with the class.

Seating is limited to 30 people for this event, so register early!

Web Frameworks Shootout presented by ClePy

Filed Under : Cleveland,Coding and Hacking,Python by Chris Miller

Apr.16,2010

The May10th meeting of Cleveland Python (Clepy) will be a Web Frameworks Shootout. This is an official Call For Presentations. If you want to present a framework let us know which one. Any and all frameworks are welcome. The rules:

The rules:

You have at most 20 minutes for your presentation, including questions
Code must be posted to BitBucket by May 3 to facilitate people following along during the presentation.
You’ve got to stick to the project requirements, in the spirit of keeping this a fair comparison there should not be any additional graphics, styles or javascript tricks that are not built-in functionality of your framework.

The project: A simple blog.

Post list
Post details page, including comments per post
RSS feed of last 10 posts
Ability to create a post, this should be protected by user authentication
Ability to create comments, this should not be protected by authentication
A blog post contains: title, contents, author and post date

A wiki page will be posted in the next couple of days on the Clepy site to answer some of the questions we’ve received. You can learn more about us and subscribe to the mailing list at http://clepy.org.

Transform Freemind Mindmaps to MoinMoin Wikitext

Filed Under : Coding and Hacking,Python by Chris Miller

Apr.8,2010

I’ve started using Freemind (the open-source mindmapping tool) to lay out initial requirements for projects, outline plots for sessions in my Savage Worlds campaign, and to develop ideas for essays. I use a MoinMoin wiki at work and for my personal projects, and I wanted a away to take my map and have it transformed into wikitext for easy cutting-and-pasting. Luckily, Freemind 0.9.0 RC6 comes with an ‘Export using XSLT’ function. I modified one of the bundled XSLTs and now I’m in note-taking heaven.

Want it? Grab the XSLT from my bitbucket repo.

Tags : freemind, moinmoin, xslt

New Podcasts and a Modest Pythonic Proposal

Filed Under : Podcasting,Python by Chris Miller

Apr.1,2010

First, From Python Import Podcast is finally live! In the first episode, we meet our hosts and learn a bit of what they learned at PyCon 2010. Please head over to the website and subscribe!

Second, the latest Secret Lair podcast has been posted. In it, we review BBS: The Documentary and Project Truth from Evil Overlord Games.

Finally, I’ve attached the presentation for a lightning talk I planned to give at PyCon this past year, but I was unable to get to it. You see…Python is a remarkably stable, useful language. However, I feel that to really compete with the big boys, we need to inject a little uncertainty and doubt in the language. Additionally, I believe that the community is crying out for a new way to approach the dictionary object, especially in light of the new testing methods available to us.

To that end, I humbly submit the Thesaurus Object for addition to the standard Python datatypes. I believe the presentation below will speak for itself, however, anyone who wants to find source code and examples can find them here.

I look forward to your comments and questions.

The Thesarus Object

From Python Import Podcast

Filed Under : Coding and Hacking,Podcasting,Python by Chris Miller

Mar.24,2010

I’m happy to announce that David Stanek, Mike Crute, and myself will be recording the first in a new podcast series this evening. The podcast, titled From Python Import Podcast, will offer up commentary on working with the Python language, have interviews with luminaries in the community, encourage critical thinking about trends in Python development at large, and will, hopefully, make you laugh a bit. We’re an opinionated crew, and we welcome feedback, flamebait, and anything else you want to throw at us.

The site is in the process of being built, but you can find it at http://frompythonimportpodcast.com. Our first episode will be released on 4/1/2010.

And no…this is not an April Fool’s prank. Thanks for asking.

Unquiet Desperation

To be awake is to be alive.

Category : Coding and Hacking

Talking about Django with the CWSA

Web Frameworks Shootout presented by ClePy

Transform Freemind Mindmaps to MoinMoin Wikitext

New Podcasts and a Modest Pythonic Proposal

From Python Import Podcast

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