On 11/01/13 12:08, Safe Hammad wrote: > > Hi All, > > Happy New Year! We're set to usher in the 2013 season of Python > Northwest with a talks meeting on Thu 17th Jan. > > At our last meeting there were a couple of suggestions (and dare I say > offers?) of talks. With an entire weekend to put together five or six > slides, or perhaps to practise a bit of coding in a terminal, all > offers of talks or any other ideas are very welcome! >
Well, I'm still planning on getting the reverse-engineering workshop ready for Feb, but I could probably whip up a quick talk on one of the following topics for this Thursday (blatantly copied'n'pasted from an earlier post ;) : * 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? ^-- this is probably the thing I've got freshest in my head at the moment * 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. Plus a bit on why it needs some love for py3k. 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
