I attended the Creating GUI Applications in Python using Qt I by Paul Kippes this morning and then I attended half of his second tutorial on PyQt this afternoon. The speaker had lots of materials to give us including fairly extensive examples. I think I learned a lot during the morning session because I had […]
Python code testing is something new to me. It's not required where I work, so I haven't spent much time looking into it, besides reading a book on the subject and reading a few blogs. However, I decided it was high time I check this out and see what all the excitement is about. In […]
My first tutorial of the day was Advanced Python I with Raymond Hettinger. He is very knowledgeable, but I got stuck in the very back of the room and had a terrible time following him. The speaker went over a bunch of basics of IDLE with Python 3.2. He covered how to open a module […]
A couple months ago, I told my readership that my organization wasn't going to pay my way to PyCon and wondered if they would help me. I got mixed results and dropped that idea. Then my boss said he was going to try to make it so I could go and he did. So I […]
The PyCon USA 2011 site has finally gotten its schedule up this week and in the last couple of days, they have added the ability to sign up to be a Session Chair or Session Runner. These are fairly important roles that need to be filled to make the conference flow smoothly. Basically, a Session […]
February 21, 2011 by
Mike As PyCon approaches, the blogger community was invited to interview the speakers that are coming to the event. I chose Wesley Chun, writer of Core Python Programming and co-author of Python Web Development with Django. In this interview, I ask Wesley about his talk, Running Django Apps on Google App Engine and about PyCon in […]