Omaha Python Users Group

January-07-2009

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:40:00 GMT

This month's meeting notes:

Meeting/Talk Topics:

CherryPy and Adobe Flex (Jeff Hinrichs) - Jeff showed a standard CherryPy + Cheetah application that he used as a base and then how he integrated Adobe Flex for a spiffed up interface. A code walk through was given featuring the MXML used and the Flex Builder for Linux alpha
Wing IDE (Charles Kaminski) - Charles had a great presentation on the Wing IDE Charles ran a completely live presentation showing code intelligence, debugging and lots of other goodies that Wing has to offer Python programmers. It was such a good presentation that I am seriously considering buying it.
A number of people attending retold their stories of their first exposure to Python and how they get to use Python at work.

It was a great meeting. Charles brought up the idea of possibly finding a mid-town watering hole and having the meetings in a back room. So if anyone knows of a place that supports both libations and presentations in the mid-town area please let us know.

A partial list of other topics discussed include:

Shed Skin - An Optimizing Python-to-C++ Compiler
Android
GvR and BDFL
Nearest Neighbor Searches
Cover Trees
R-trees
Linux vs. Windows as a development platform
Multi-platform capabilities of Python
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Tech Omaha

December-03-2008

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:00:00 GMT

This month's meeting notes:

Because of a last-minute scheduling conflict, instead of meeting at Rosken's Hall, Room 402 on UNO's campus, We met in the 4th floor lounge in Rosken's Hall. Outside of missing a projector, the lounge was outfitted with plenty of power and wired/wireless connections.

Meeting/Talk Topics:
* Django v. CherryPy and why CherryPy != Django
* Hosting Python based web apps — webfaction
* Elixir and other ORMs

It was a great, informal session. Lot's of talk about current projects. The upcoming 2.6 and 3.0 releases.

November-05-2008

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:56:00 GMT

This month's meeting notes:

This month's meeting was skipped due to the proximity of the meeting to elections. Nothing like an election night hang-over ;)

October-01-2008

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:55:00 GMT

This month's meeting notes:

We met at Rosken's Hall, Room 402 on UNO's campus

It was a good, informal session. Lot's of talk about current projects. The upcoming 2.6 and 3.0 releases.

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Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:59:00 GMT

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Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:57:00 GMT

Where: Roskens Hall (College of Business Administration), Room 402

University of Nebraska at Omaha
6000 Dodge Street
Omaha Nebraska 68104

Parking:
Top deck behind College of Arts and Sciences, for 2$
In UNO parking with a UNO Visitor pass

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When is the next meeting?:February 4, 2009 @ 7pm

Meetings are held the 1st Wednesday of the month. In the case that a holiday coincides with or is immediately adjacent to that day, the meeting will be held 1 week later on the second Wednesday

Topics:

TBA
Group Logo (logo entry 1, ...)
Lightning Talks
Group Q and A session

Refreshments:

The venue does not allow food/drink so we'll meet socially afterwards

Door Prize:

TBA

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September-07-2008

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:04:00 GMT

This month's meeting notes:

We met at Rosken's Hall, Room 402 on UNO's campus

It was a good, informal session. Lot's of talk about current projects. The upcoming 2.6 and 3.0 releases.

August-06-2008

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:09:00 GMT

This month's meeting notes:

We met at Rosken's Hall, Room 402 on UNO's campus

Chad gave a presentation on his use of 3 third party modules in his current project.

pexpect - a module for interacting with interactive command line apps
Python MegaWidgets - a toolkit for building high-level compound widgets in Python using the Tkinter module.
aes.py - an aes encryption module

Charles brought up the idea of the group taking on an open source project. More about this on the list.

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June-04-2008

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:29:00 GMT

This month's meeting notes:

We met at Rosken's Hall, Room 402 on UNO's campus courtesy of Burch. Thanks Burch!

Jeff gave a presentation on the basics of easy_install & PyPI

Panesh (sorry if I misspelled your name) won the door prize, Python Cookbook.

May-07-2008

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:29:00 GMT

This month's meeting notes:

We met at Rosken's Hall, Room 402 on UNO's campus courtesy of Burch. Thanks Burch!

Google App Engine by Jeff Hinrichs

Jeff gave a presentation on the basics of Google App Engine|http://code.google.com/appengine/]

April-02-2008

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:11:00 GMT

This month's meeting notes:

We met at Rosken's Hall, Room 402 on UNO's campus courtesy of Burch. Thanks Burch!

BeautifulSoup by Eli Criffield
Tkinter and PMW by Chad Homan

Eli gave a great presentation on the basics of BeautifulSoup and used his sipie project and ipython to help demonstrate the power brew which is BeautifulSoup.

Chad gave a presentation about the advantages of Tkinter on platforms with limited resources. He also demonstrated Python MegaWidgets - PMW. PMW builds on Tkinter to provide things like tabs and notebook metaphors to UIs who use Tkinter.

March-05-2008

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:43:00 GMT

This month's meeting notes:

We met at Rosken's Hall, Room 402 on UNO's campus courtesy of Burch. Thanks Burch!

Jeff gave a presentation on Elixir. Topics covered included defining objects/tables and relationships. Examples of queries, 1:n and m:n joins were also to be had. Talked then turned to projects that members were currently working on. We finished the meeting by talking about PyCon. There are 3 of us, that we know of, that will be attending PyCon this year.

Topics:

elixir
- sqlalchemy — the ORM that elixir sits on.

Lightning Talks
sqlite
metakit
twisted
cherrypy

Group Q and A session
- PyCon 2008 in Chicago

The door prize for the meeting was, "Python Pocket Reference"

Thanks to everyone who attended.

After the meeting we gathered at Clancy's to socialize.

February-06-2008

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:49:00 GMT

This month's meeting notes:

We met at Rosken's Hall, Room 402 on UNO's campus courtesy of Burch. Thanks Burch!

Mike Hostetler gave a great presentation/demonstration of django. After some opening comments comparing different styles of web development, Mike took us through a blog application with django. There were lots of questions all through the presentation. Thanks Mike!

Topics:

django
- satchmoproject a django based ecommerce framework
- heartlandstores.com - A site Mike built based on django / satchmoproject and utilizing YUI
Lightning Talks
Group Q and A session

Thanks to everyone who attended.

January-09-2008

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:47:00 GMT

This month's meeting notes:

We met at Rosken's Hall on UNO's campus courtesy of Burch. Thanks Burch!

This month's meeting was a bit shorter than before due in fact to the great accommodations. It's amazing how much nicer it is to meet in a less crowded environment.

Topics:

The talk generated some nice discussion.

Thanks to everyone who attended.

Refreshments:
The venue does not allow food/drink so after the meeting we decided to meet at a local establishment for some food and beverage and more talk.

Door Prize:
Rapid Web Applications with TurboGears, Mark Ramm

December-05-2007

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:30:00 GMT

This month's meeting notes:

We met at Godfather's Pizza (75th & Pacific)

Burch has arranged for us to meet at Rosken's Hall on the University of Nebraska at Omaha's campus. Watch for more specific details to follow on the mail list and on the website.

Jeff gave a presentation/overview of functional programming in Python

Eli talked about:

Google's MapReduce - a software framework implemented by Google to support parallel computations over large (greater than 100 terabyte) data sets on unreliable clusters of computers.
HardOCP - Hadoop implements MapReduce, using the Hadoop Distributed File SystemHDFS) (see figure below.) MapReduce divides applications into many small blocks of work.
glusterfs - a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes.

Jeff gave a short presentation on anecdotes about optimizing Python code.

Premature speed optimizations are the root of all evil
Enhanced readability is an optimization
Follow pep8 and use structured code — you get an automatic speed up by just keeping your name spaces clean and local
Know where your code is spending it's time and optimize their first — when in doubt, optimize the inner loop first
Remove the dots - short circuit lookup intensive operations. i.e. _lstappend = lst.append
Check out shedskin — although it can compile entire programs, it is perhaps most useful at speeding up a targeted area of code. ShedSkin makes writing a C++ based importable module child's play compared to using C++, and bindings — see "optimize the inner loop first"

We enjoyed some decent pizza and shop talk between talks.

The door prize, "Python in a Nutshell" was won by Burch. A big Thank You to O'Reilly for the door prizes at our meetings. Thanks to you to Marsee!