I attended my first SEAPIG meeting last night (please replace one Brian below with a Ryan, but the group consensus is that you shouldn't use regex to do so).
I had a lot of fun, and greatly enjoyed discussing my favorite programming language with fellow fans. I'm looking forward to attending more! Regards, Ryan Ginstrom -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Mark Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 1:53 PM To: Seattle Python Interest Group Subject: [SEAPY] Notes on SeaPIG meeting 2013-06-17 Thanks for a fun meeting yesterday... here are some notes on what was discussed: In attendance: John Maria Brian Rohit Brian Miles Jimmy Alex Derek Toby Mike David Kevin Jonathan Python Day mini-conference discussion Toward the end of september? ~100 - 120 people 1 track? Or basic tutorial vs. expert tracks? Last time, it was allegedly community organized but Mike Orr ended up doing most of everything Toby will connect with the last Python Day's organizers. A sheet was passed for people to give Toby their contact info if they might be willing to volunteer for some task. ideas: subcommunities: introductory web programmers scientific pygame what should these communities be learning from each other? David - has been taking (and highly recommends): coursera: "Interactive Programming with Gaming" course with Python - via Rice University uses codesculptor.org uses SimpleGUI library looking for opportunities to join a team of some kind comments on Python books: Python Essential Reference - good as reference but not good as tutorial covers py2 vs. py3 issues gives general advice "Python in a Nutshell" is good LXML is a good XML library to use Resource for learning numpy? There is a clone of StackOverflow which is specific to scipy and numpy (I have not been able to find this link) Brian Dorsey suggests looking at iPython Notebook interactive Matlab style notebook with graphing understands shell commands LightTable is the kickstarter project for a cool on-the-fly programming environment the perennial question: which IDE? Comodo Edit - has student discount for coursera classes VIM Sublime Text Eclipse - is fine but hard to set up pydev on windows Pycharm was recommended. Discussion of Logging vs. Debugging especially for web programming, a good log setup is crucial There are times for debugging too Sentry is a useful logging module for Django with pretty UI Another possible topic for Python Day: Profiling & performance measurements Static code analysis is helpful too - pylint or pyflakes VIM plugin called "flake8" runs Pyflakes and the PEP8 style checker tool innovation: Maria's article on how to set up email server: http://www.mariakathryn.net/Blog/57 looking for comments on "Python on Mac OS" article Do video of python day?? Sprint on Sunday after the conference? Office Nomads could be a good location for this Rohit's project that could be sprintable: online interactive game of programming bots - web based with django for account mgmt pyparsing is a good alternative to regex parsing RegexPal is a good tool for debugging regexps http://regexpal.com/ how to do a pxe boot A: try onesis how to parse twitter for TV show references? use a db or not? recommendation to use mongodb for the database Python Twitter analytics tool: http://glowingpython.blogspot.com/
