TuPLE meets monthly in Tucson, AZ.

For the freshest info, please see our our Google Group!

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

= Next Meeting (April 2010)=

Please see our our Google Group, but the following is probably correct.

• When: Monday, March 12, 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

March 8th 2010

We started off with people who'd been to Pycon 2010 talking about it. After that we tended to break up into multiple groups conversing about what interested them most. Finally, we went to a restaurant that has beer.

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.