For the past couple of years, I've been writing automated tests for my employer. One of the many types of tests that I do is comparing how an application draws. Does it draw the same way every single time? If not, then we have a serious problem. An easy way to check that it draws […]
This week we welcome Paul Logston (@PaulLogston) as our PyDev of the Week! Paul is the new maintainer for Pyvideo.org. He took over for Will Kahn-Greene. You can read more about the transition here. He is also an organizer for his local Python Users Group. You might want to take a few moments to check […]
The Python Imaging Library or PIL allowed you to do image processing in Python. The original author, Fredrik Lundh, wrote one of my favorite Python blogs when I first started learning Python. However PIL's last release was way back in 2009 and the blog also stopped getting updated. Fortunately, there were some other Python folks […]
I think it's very important for teens and college students to learn how to program. Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics is such a crucial set of topics to learn about that I have decided to give away copies of Python 101 and Python 201: Intermediate Python to teachers and professors starting today until 11:59 p.m. […]
This week we welcome Bryan Van de Ven (@bigreddot) as our PyDev of the Week! Bryan is a core developer of the Bokeh project, which is a visualization package for Python. He has also helped with the development of Anaconda. You can check out what projects he is a part of on Github. Let's take […]
September 27, 2016 by
Mike I am excited to announce that the wxPython Cookbook is now available for Pre-Order. You can get your digital copy on Gumroad or Leanpub now. You can get a sample of the book on Leanpub if you'd like to "try before you buy". There will be over 50 recipes in this book. The examples in […]