TuPLE meets monthly in Tucson, AZ.

For the freshest info, please see our Appspot Calendar or our our Google Group!

Sometimes this wiki is not as up-to-date as our Google Group.

Next Meeting (March 2010)

• When: Monday, March 8, 2010. 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm (after 8pm we might move to a place that caters to those of our members who like beer)
• Where:

  • Sorry, this method of getting formatted text is kind of ugly, but tables were uglier yet:

          NEW LOCATION
    
          Espresso Art
          944 E University Blvd
          Tucson, AZ 85719
          (520) 624-4126 

    Map

    PLEASE SEE TuPLE Google Group FOR LATEST INFO.

• What: PyCon attendees debriefing

• Parking Advice:
  • There's curbside parking after 5pm on residential streets west of Euclid, such as University. Be careful to check for signs reserving some parking for residents only.

Resources

• Website : TuPLEgroup on Appspot

• Mailing list: TuPLEgroup

Future Topics for 2009

• In process, available in group

Some Past Meetings

February 8th 2010

• Meeting summary (link)

January 20th 2010

• Lightning talks: extended dance mix
  • (We let people run longer than 5 minutes if they wanted.)
  • Generating PDFs in Python - Chris Niswander
    • focusing on [CENSORED BY WIKI] Toolkit (aka Report Lab PDF Library)
  • S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System - Chris Merle
    • slideshows in a web browser
  • "The Case Against ORMs" - Scott Schanel
    • SQL is good; ORMs, a mixed blessing.
  • How to Generate RSS Feeds from Django - Lucas Taylor
    • Django syndication
  • iftd and raVen - Jude Nelson (?)
    • flexible, automatically adapting file transfer for the Internet of the future

For more information, see the meeting's recap thread on Google Groups.

December 14th 2009

• 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.

November 9th 2009

• Dictionaries in Python 3.0
• Optimizing pysqlite databases and queries, Part II

October 12th 2009

• "Optimizing pysqlite databases and queries"
• "The Django Model class as an example of metaclass programming"

September 14th 2009

• Buildout -- a Python project management tool

• Complex Software Systems in Legacy and Modern Environments -- A Case Study of the PicklingTools

August 17th 2009: CANCELED

July 20th 2009

• IronPython

June 15th 2009

• SQLAlchemy
• Combinatorial calculations in C vs Python

May 18th 2009

• 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.

April 20th 2009

• 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

March 24th 2009

• 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

February 23rd 2009

• 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

January 19th 2009

• Initial meeting, what do we want to do, when, etc.