2017 was a big year when it comes to readership of this blog. It ended up with 1,027,600 sessions, 704,991 users and 1,233,805 page views. These numbers are nearly twice as much as 2015 and a pretty big boost over 2016 as well. As expected, the country with the biggest readership was the USA. India […]
This week we welcome Brian Ray as our PyDev of the Week! Brian is the author / speaker for Python From Scratch Life Lessons from Pearson. He is the founders and the former chair of ChiPy, the Chicago Python users group. Let's take a few moments to get to know Brian better! Can you tell […]
December 25, 2017 by
Mike This week we welcome Lynn Root (@roguelynn) as our PyDev of the Week! Lynn is an organizer for PyLadies and PyCon 2017. She was doing some of the master of ceremonies duties when I was attending PyCon this year. She is also a speaker at various Python Conferences including Pycon, EuroPython, and DjangoCon, among others. […]
December 19, 2017 by
Mike I was contacted earlier this year by Apress about republishing my book, wxPython Cookbook, under their branding. I thought it might be fun to see what I could learn from a publisher so I went with them as I have enjoyed several of their books in the past. The biggest change to the book is […]
December 18, 2017 by
Mike This week we welcome Damián Avila as our PyDev of the Week! Damián works for Anaconda, an open source distribution of Python and R with a heavy focus on data science. He is also the author of RISE, a Jupyter/IPython Slideshow Extension. You can get a feel for what Damián is up to over on […]
December 15, 2017 by
Mike Last time we got our Flask based music database application partially functional. It could now add data to the database, edit said data and also display everything in the database. But we didn't cover how to filter the data by using the user's filter choice (Artist, Album name or publisher name) and search string. We […]
