[melbourne-pug] February session: Request for Presentations

2014-01-19 Thread Javier Candeira
Hi everyone. February 3 is a Monday, two weeks from now, and we still don't have any confirmed presentations! Suggestions: maybe one of you has a talk they'd like to give, or maybe you've discovered something cool that you're using for work (or for your hobby) and can give a brief tutorial.

Re: [melbourne-pug] February session: Request for Presentations

2014-01-19 Thread Rory Hart
I have a travelling salesman solver I wrote for my own amusement using numpy and matplotlib. The python is nothing exciting right now but the algorithm is interesting and the visualisation is nice. A demo/tutorial on the algo and code would be suitable for either a 5 minute or 15 minute talk.

Re: [melbourne-pug] Inserting images into MSSQL using Python

2014-01-19 Thread Dave Collins
David, What data type are using using in the database? You should not need PIL to read or write data in from disk and put into a database. dave On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 15:47 +1100, David Crisp wrote: Using Python, What is the best method for reading a small PNG file from disk then writing it

Re: [melbourne-pug] Inserting images into MSSQL using Python

2014-01-19 Thread David Crisp
Dave, Pil was just an example of the tools i had been playing with at the time I was trying to work out the DB insertts. On Mon, 20 Jan 2014, Dave Collins wrote: David, What data type are using using in the database? You should not need PIL to read or write data in from disk and put into a

Re: [melbourne-pug] February session: Request for Presentations

2014-01-19 Thread Javier Candeira
Hi, Rory. Thanks, that sounds great. Can you please write yourself up on the wiki? http://wiki.python.org/moin/MelbournePUG J On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Rory Hart hart...@gmail.com wrote: I have a travelling salesman solver I wrote for my own amusement using numpy and matplotlib. The