On 16 Jan 2013 04:53, "Dave Hughes" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
Really looking forward to this. I think it'll be a very popular session! , 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. Interesting pairings of topics: 2 x database, 2 x web, 1 x scripting. All sound interesting to me, but sadly I can't attend tomorrow :( so won't state a preference :) Best, 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
