Just wanted to +1 Mondays. Thursdays are when the Djangonauts have their awesome hack night.
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Kevin LaTona <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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/ > > > > > >
