My apologies for the improper formatting. On Wed, Oct 14, 2015, at 03:14 AM, Kiran Gangadharan wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > Please find the meeting minutes below. > > > Date: 26 September 2015 > > The September Edition of the ChennaiPy meetup started with Vijaykumar, > the > organizer, welcoming everyone and outlining the agenda for the evening. > > * Introduction to Django > > Rajkumar Rajendran started off the talk with some history of Django. > After that, he did a > quick walk through of installing Django and using it to setup a basic > project > structure with SQLite as the database. He then went on to illustrating > how a web > server works and concluded with a small demo on setting up a hello world > project > with the framework. > > * Django REST Framework > > It looks like the audience had a good dose of Django this time, thanks > to the > talk by Jagadish Kumar. He started off by talking about API's as a > bridge > between a client and server and then went on to explain the basic > components of > the Django REST framework. He then demoed a simple TODO application and > showed > us how he was able to easily add/remove functionality from the API by > using > Mixins that the framework provided, thus illustrating the concepts of a > loosely > coupled architecture. > > * Networking Tea Break sponsored by Clay Labs > > * Using G-Code Vis tools > > I'm pretty sure that a lot of people were baffled by the title of this > talk by > Shakthi Kannan. But to all our surprise, it turned out to be an > interesting > insight into the jargons and processes in the world of 3D printing. > Shakthi > started out by explaining the basic components of a 3D printer. He > talked about > how one would go about printing something using an STL file. The STL > file would > be first converted into G-Code which could then be executed on a 3D > printer to > actually print the object. He then gave a quick explanation about > various gcode > instructions and metrics that could be fine-tuned by the user. He then > showed us > how an object shaped like a pyramid would be printed using YAGV(Yet > Another > G-Code Viewer). He also showed us how the final object would appear, > using > Blender. The generated model data using G-Codes could be compared with > the > actual data obtained from the printer to determine the accuracy of the > process > itself. He then concluded with a short and sweet Q&A session with the > audience. > > * Building a Sublime Plugin using Python > > Text Editors are amongst the biggest contributors of programmer > productivity, > and in this session, Gaurav Sehrawat talked about how one could extend > the > functionalities of Sublime Text, by building plugins for it in Python. > Gaurav > started off by demonstrating a few tips and tricks that make Sublime > Text an > awesome editor. He then went on to explain what Window/Text command was > and how > one could leverage them to build simple plugins for the editor. He > demoed an > event based API to search Google for autocompletion when typing > something into > the editor and concluded with a demo of printing better debug statements > for > python variables which included the displayed filename and line number > along > with the variable. > > * Python, Guido and Snakes > > I guess that after a bunch of serious talks for the evening, Vijay > thought that > it was time for something light and refreshing. His talk title was > concise > enough to pique our interest, but obscure enough to shroud us in > mystery. He > started off by talking about Python and it's creator Guido Van > Rossum(BDFL). He > talked about how the name "Python" was inspired by Guido's love for > Monty > Python. And to all our surprise, he even showed us a small sketch from > Monty > Python's "The Flying Circus", which left us all laughing out loud! > > * Vote of Thanks > > Vijay concluded the meeting by thanking the participants, speakers, > volunteers, > IMSc and the sponsors. > > -- > Kiran Gangadharan > http://kirang.in > _______________________________________________ > Chennaipy mailing list > Chennaipy@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/chennaipy
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