The local Python users group, Pyowa, was restarted last night after a year and a half hibernation. I hadn't been to one of their meetings in a few years, but I had decided at the end of 2016 to get it going again. Once the ball was rolling, we got multiple offers of sponsorships for […]
This week we welcome Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy) as our PyDev of the Week! Michael is an author and speaker. He is also a Python and MongoDB enthusiast, and an entrepreneur. He is the host of the popular Talk Python To Me podcast as well as the new Python Bytes Podcast. In 2016, he founded the […]
I try to write a retrospective of the previous year every year, usually for the first day of the new year. However due to tons of projects and family medical issues, I ended up pushing it to today. The year 2016 was pretty exciting. I wrote two books. The first was a sequel to my […]
This week we welcome Lisa Roach as our PyDev of the Week! Lisa is one of the authors of PEP 526 - Syntax for Variable Annotations which is a part of Python 3.6. You can check out which FOSS projects Lisa is interested in over on Github. Let's take a few moments to get you […]
After the amazing response I had when I made Python 101 free for a few days a couple of months ago (see here, I have decided to make it free (or Pay What You Want) permanently on Leanpub (PDF, mobi and epub): https://leanpub.com/python_101 Note: I am still selling it on Amazon, Gumroad and Lulu Now […]
This week we welcome Mark Haase as our PyDev of the Week. Mark is the author of PEP 505 - None-aware operators. You can check out what projects Mark is interested in over on Github. He also has a programming blog that covers various programming topics. Let's take some time getting to know Mark better! […]