September 18, 2017 by
Mike This week we welcome Daniel Roseman as our PyDev of the Week. I stumbled across Daniel on StackOverflow via some of the Python answers he has given. He is in the top 0.01% overall on StackOverflow, which is pretty impressive. He also has an old blog with a few interesting Python related articles in it. […]
September 15, 2017 by
Mike Malicious code has been found on the Python Package Index (PyPI), the most popular location for sharing Python packages. This was reported by Slovak National Security Office which was then picked up by Bleeping Computer among other places (i.e. Reddit). The attack vector used typosquatting, which is basically someone uploading a package with a misspelled […]
September 11, 2017 by
Mike StackOverflow published a report last week in which they stated that Python has a solid claim to being the fastest-growing major programming language. Python was also called out as one of the top programming languages of 2017 over on the IEEE Spectrum website, which I covered in an earlier article. Python just keeps growing more […]
September 11, 2017 by
Mike This week we welcome Jeff Forcier (@bitprophet) as our PyDev of the Week. Jeff is the current maintainer of the popular Fabric and Paramiko packages. He is also the creator of the Invoke package. You can check out other projects that Jeff contributes to on Github. He also has a blog that you might find […]
September 4, 2017 by
Mike This week we welcome Matthias Bussonnier (@Mbussonn) as our PyDev of the Week. Matthias is a core developer of the Jupyter Notebook and IPython. You may want to check out his Github profile to see what projects he is interested in and working on. Let's spend some time getting to know Matthias better! Can you […]
It's time for school and going back to the university, so I am putting on a "Back to School" sale for my Python books. You can now buy my second and third books for 50% off on Leanpub. Python 201: Intermediate Python wxPython Cookbook You can check out my first book, Python 101, in its […]