Re: technologies synergistic with Python
On Sep 22, 8:16 am, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote:
What is the consensus... okay, okay -- what are some wide ranging
opinions on technologies that I should know if my dream job is one that
consists mostly of Python, and might allow telecommuting?
A technology that I consider *highly* synergistic with Python but
that seems to have permanent outsider status is Zope. (It has a
reputation for being baroque and/or over-engineered, but to me it just
seems to reflect almost 20 years of web development experience. I've
also become a big fan of its component architecture approach.)
CoffeeScript is a neat little language that compiles to JavaScript. It
borrows liberally from Python Ruby, so you can write this:
foods = ['broccoli', 'spinach', 'chocolate']
eat food for food in foods when food isnt 'chocolate'
Instead of this:
foods = ['broccoli', 'spinach', 'chocolate'];
for (_k = 0, _len2 = foods.length; _k _len2; _k++) {
food = foods[_k];
if (food !== 'chocolate') {
eat(food);
}
}
Chris Angelico nailed it, though:
Expand out in any direction at all, really. Anything'll make you
more
employable.
My only extension would be to pick the directions you find you enjoy
rather than the ones you think will make you more employable. I've
found it's more often than not the obscure experience I have that
makes me desirable to employers rather than the common ground they can
find anywhere.
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: technologies synergistic with Python
On 9/21/2012 2:59 PM Ethan Furman said... ...if my dream job is one that consists mostly of Python, and might allow telecommuting? Hi Ethan, I have an open position in my two man office I've tried to fill a couple times without success that is predominately python and would allow for telecommuting. I'm looking for a third member of the team that will focus on back end development integrating various systems through to an open source python platform. Where are you located? I'm on the SF Peninsula. Emile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: technologies synergistic with Python
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 10:58:38 -0700, Emile van Sebille wrote: On 9/21/2012 2:59 PM Ethan Furman said... ...if my dream job is one that consists mostly of Python, and might allow telecommuting? Hi Ethan, I have an open position in my two man office I've tried to fill a couple times without success that is predominately python and would allow for telecommuting. I'm looking for a third member of the team that will focus on back end development integrating various systems through to an open source python platform. Where are you located? I'm on the SF Peninsula. Emile PMFJI. If he's going to telecommute, why does it matter where he is located? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: technologies synergistic with Python
Walter Hurry wrote: On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 10:58:38 -0700, Emile van Sebille wrote: On 9/21/2012 2:59 PM Ethan Furman said... ...if my dream job is one that consists mostly of Python, and might allow telecommuting? Hi Ethan, I have an open position in my two man office I've tried to fill a couple times without success that is predominately python and would allow for telecommuting. I'm looking for a third member of the team that will focus on back end development integrating various systems through to an open source python platform. Where are you located? I'm on the SF Peninsula. Emile PMFJI. If he's going to telecommute, why does it matter where he is located? I would think the biggest reason is compatible time-zones. After that, how costly face-to-face meetings would be. ~Ethan~ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
technologies synergistic with Python
Greetings! What is the consensus... okay, okay -- what are some wide ranging opinions on technologies that I should know if my dream job is one that consists mostly of Python, and might allow telecommuting? (Please don't say Java, please don't say Java, please don't say... ;) ~Ethan~ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: technologies synergistic with Python
On Sep 21, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote: Greetings! What is the consensus... okay, okay -- what are some wide ranging opinions on technologies that I should know if my dream job is one that consists mostly of Python, and might allow telecommuting? (Please don't say Java, please don't say Java, please don't say... ;) Django, JavaScript, HTML 5, JQuery, , SQL, Redis, Twisted ~Ethan~ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: technologies synergistic with Python
i Rodrick Brown於 2012年9月22日星期六UTC+8上午6時33分59秒寫道： On Sep 21, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote: Greetings! What is the consensus... okay, okay -- what are some wide ranging opinions on technologies that I should know if my dream job is one that consists mostly of Python, and might allow telecommuting? (Please don't say Java, please don't say Java, please don't say... ;) Django, JavaScript, HTML 5, JQuery, , SQL, Redis, Twisted ~Ethan~ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list I always prefer a computer language with a lot examples in the sources for all kinds of nontrivial applications. I am not interested in those trivial batches or shell programming scripts for novices. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: technologies synergistic with Python
On 09/21/12 17:33, Rodrick Brown wrote: What is the consensus... okay, okay -- what are some wide ranging opinions on technologies that I should know if my dream job is one that consists mostly of Python, and might allow telecommuting? Django, JavaScript, HTML 5, JQuery, , SQL, Redis, Twisted The only thing I might tweak in Rodrick's list is to broaden entries like Django to a web framework such as Django, Pyramid, web.py, or ... and Redis to a NoSQL database such as Redis, CouchDB, ... The others are pretty solid, even if I dislike JavaScript/ECMAScript as a language, jQuery makes it tolerable, it's the lingua-franca of the web. -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: technologies synergistic with Python
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:59:47 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote: Greetings! What is the consensus... okay, okay -- what are some wide ranging opinions on technologies that I should know if my dream job is one that consists mostly of Python, and might allow telecommuting? That depends on what your dream job is using Python for. Web development? HTML, Javascript, Flash *spit*, JSON, XML, SQL, server-side system administration (how do I restart the web server?), whatever framework is being used. Linux system administration? Linux, bash (or some other shell), perl, gcc, Python. Numerical work? C, Fortran, numpy, scipy, mathematics. Integration with Java frameworks and applications? Java :-P (Please don't say Java, please don't say Java, please don't say... ;) -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: technologies synergistic with Python
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: Integration with Java frameworks and applications? Java :-P voice imitate=Maxwell SmartI asked you not to tell me that!/voice JavaScript/ECMAScript/etc-script isn't that bad a language. It's workable. And thanks to it, my boss now understands pass-by-object semantics, which is a Good Thing. But good or bad, you can't do much web programming without it. Of course, you can do a lot of Python without writing for the web. Expand out in any direction at all, really. Anything'll make you more employable. Systems administration and basic management, as Steven mentioned; I'd expand on that to general networking. Know how to diagnose basic issues with getting information off the web (interface down, routing problems, DNS issues, etc), because some day, you'll be on your own without any access to Google and have to solve the problem unassisted :) http://xkcd.com/903/ ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
