> > I could whip up a medium-length talk on the little weather web-app I > threw together the other day. It'd basically be a walk-through of how it > was built, which would encompass: > > * a brief intro to the Pyramid web framework (successor to Pylons) > without touching on anything complex like a database as it doesn't use > any - so basically view/controller stuff without a model > > * a quick drawing session in Inkscape, looking at the XML that results > and how to tweak it to add animation elements (no python here) > > * building a simple class to perform such XML manipulations in Python > (using ElementTree) > > * controlling the resulting class from a web-page with Pyramid > > So I guess more coding demo than talk, with some incredible > primary-school art skills thrown in for good measure.
I'd be really interested in this talk, particularly with real world coding on a real world project. I've been an on-and-off Django developer since 2006 and have shamefully never investigated Pyramid née Pylons, purely for reasons of inertia and familiarity with Django, so I'd look forward to comparing approaches. Alternatively, > other topics I could throw something together on (which I've encountered > vaguely recently and are therefore sufficiently fresh in memory!) are: > > * timezone handling and why it's _bloody annoying_ (especially when it > comes to persisting it in a database, most of which don't support > timezones natively) - probably a 5 minute talk > > * the webtest package - possibly the coolest testing thing I've come > across since Mock - 5-10 minutes maybe? > > * two-phase transaction handling in Pyramid - the "how" portion of this > talk would literally take about thirty seconds because it's *that* easy, > most of the rest would be why it's so damned useful, how many things can > be supported (mailing, file-systems, etc.) and how 2pc works under the > covers - maybe 5-10 minutes? > > * protecting against XSS - how to do it badly (regexes) and how to do it > well (bleach) - 5-10 minutes depending on how many XSS examples we go > through and how much I feel like ripping on stackoverflow's coders ;) > > * the optcomplete package (aka the best thing since bash programmable > completions) - probably no more than 5 minutes - it's ludicrously simple > > * GTK vs Qt4 (or "Glade vs Qt4 designer" which is basically what it > comes down to, although there's things to be said about the lack of a > decent Gtk3 port for Windows) > > > Any votes? > Candy in a sweet shop! I'd love to hear / discuss every last one of these topics, on Thursday or in future. Safe > > Cheers, > > Dave. > > -- > To post: [email protected] > To unsubscribe: [email protected] > Feeds: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west/feeds > More options: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west > -- To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] Feeds: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west/feeds More options: http://groups.google.com/group/python-north-west
