Next Meeting

When: TENTATIVELY Saturday, January 16, 2009. Much or all of day?
Where: PLEASE SEE TuPLE Google Group FOR LATEST INFO.
What: probably either a Hack Day or a barbeque. Or some of both.
- PLEASE SEE TuPLE Google Group FOR LATEST INFO

Resources

profiling in Python, using
- cProfile (http://docs.python.org/library/profile.html)
- timeit (http://docs.python.org/library/timeit.html)
- kcachegrind (http://kcachegrind.sourceforge.net/html/Home.html)
a simple client library for accessing Collecta (http://www.collecta.com/) feeds. Shows a basic strategy for implementing a client web library using Twisted web APIs.
discussion of possible Hack Day project ideas.

Buildout -- a Python project management tool
Complex Software Systems in Legacy and Modern Environments -- A Case Study of the PicklingTools

Rich Saunders brought his massive library of Python books and gave a good overview of what was available. Good discussion from attendees over the books.
Andrew Lenards gave us a great overview of Sphinx Python Documentation Generator and a demonstration of how it worked.

Pycon recap - Rich Saunders & Chris Merle
General discussion
doctest
use of the _ char in the interactive interpreter and as a throw-away var when unpacking a sequence

Django intro - Ben Reynwar
Twisted intro - Lucas Taylor
- Intro to Twisted: the Reactor, Deferreds, Protocols & Factories
Flash and Python (pyAMF, amfast) - Dave Thompson
- Slides available on Dave's Blog

Chris Merle gave us an overview of Plone and two products that help to inspect and interrogate the underlying python structures: DocFinderTab and Clouseau
Held at the Woods Memorial Library

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