Given how good the turn out was at last night's meeting.
Maybe we should consider doing another Monday eve meeting vs Thursday to see if that might be a better meeting day. Just a thought. -Kevin On Jun 18, 2013, at 1:53 PM, Jonathan Mark <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > >
