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Monthly meetings are normally held on the first Tuesday of each month. = Mailing List = Join the [[http://lists.livingcode.org/listinfo.cgi/vanpyz-livingcode.org/|VanPyZ mailing list]] to keep up to date with the happenings of the group. = Next talk = '''To Be Announced''' Time: 7-8:30 PM (Then we generally go out for drinks and conversation afterwards) Workspace 400 – 21 Water St. Vancouver BC, V6B 1A1 [[http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=workspace+21+water+st+vancouver+bc&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=51.705317,135.175781&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=17&iwloc=A|{{http://abetterplacetowork-com.bryght.net/system/files?file=contact-map.gif}}]] = Future talks = === Python in the Cloud === Karl Anderson: March 3, 2009 Cloud Computing on Hadoop, EC2, and S3 using only Python and some shell glue. === Scrambled Eggs: Digesting Python Packaging === Kevin Teague, April 7, 2009 There are currently many ways to manage Python-based projects. This talk is a high-level overview of some of the tools present in this space (Distutils, Setuptools, Buildout, VirtualEnv, Py2App, PyPI, Package Indexes) and will attempt to explain the different use-cases that each tool is attempting to solve. = Past talks = ---- = 2009 = === Unit Testing in Python === Henry Prêcheur: February 3, 2009 What is testing? Why testing? How Unittest works with example(s). How Doctest works with example(s). Integration of Unittest & Doctest in your project [[ http://henry.precheur.org/vanpyz_test/ | slides ]] === What I did (with Python) over the holidays === General discussion of web frameworks, cloud computing, 3D, parsing, robotics and more. Summary of this discussion can be found [[ http://livingcode.org/2009/first-vanpyz-of-2009 | here ]]. = 2008 = === Parsing and building languages with PyMeta === Tom Marsell: October 7, 2008 Tom will be presenting PyMeta, a new parsing tool based on research from the Viewpoints Research Institute. PyMeta is a version of the VPRI OMeta (PDF) language ported to Python by Allen Short. Time: 7-8:30 PM (Then we generally go out for drinks and conversation afterwards) === Python 2.6/3.0 === Brett Cannon: September 2, 2008 I am going to try to cover all the new features in both Python 2.6 and 3.0 (both slated to be released the first week of October). It will be an interactive presentation so feel free to bring any questions that you might have (although, if time doesn't allow it, I can answer questions after the meeting as well). === First looks at Google App Engine === Paul Prescod: May 6, 2008 Google App Engine is Google's attempt to make cloud computing a reality. With App Engine, developers can upload Python Web applications and have them run on Google infrastructure. "For free" you get code and data replication, failover and nearly infinite scalability (given that you adhere to certain programming rules). On the other hand, the current release of App Engine is very limited in its functionality and quotas and long-term features/pricing are unknown. At this talk we'll drill down and discuss what's right with App Engine, what's wrong with it and how it is likely to evolve. === April Fools Programming in Python === Apr 1, 2008 April Fools Programming in Python: forging functions, counterfeiting classes, mocking methods etc. === The once and Import === Brett Cannon: March 4, 2008 The once and future Import: How import works in Python 2.6 and beyond, and what it means for you === Python in Small Places: The XO and N800 === Dethe Elza: February 5, 2008 === Visual Programming, why it matters for Python === Dethe Elze: January 6, 2008 ---- = 2007 = === Other languages from a Pythonic point of view: Haskell, Ruby, Erlang, Processing === Paul Prescod, Dethe Elza, and Brett Cannon: December 4, 2007 === Experiences with Django, Turbogears and Twisted/Nevow === Ian Caven and Vlad Orlenko: November 6, 2007 === Python and SWIG at Safe Software === Tom Weir: October 2, 2007 === Python 3000 === Brett Cannon: September 4, 2007 Under development in the mind of Guido for years, Python 3.0 is finally becoming a reality with a planned alpha in August. While great strides are being taken to not change the feel of the language, Python 3.0 does break backwards-compatibility and introduce many new features to the language (while removing other features to make room for the new one). This talk will be a basic overview of what Python 3.0 is trying to accomplish and how it is accomplishing it. Brett is working towards his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of British Columbia while being one of the core developers of Python. === Stock trading with Python === April 3, 2007 An Automated Trading System (ATS) is used to find profitable trading strategies and electronically execute these strategies across in realtime. We examine how the ATS retrieves data using TCP/IP sockets and stores large datasets in a HDF5 database. The trading platform uses this data to backtest trading strategies and manage executions across hundreds of stocks. Finally, we review how electronic stock trades can be made using a broker API... all using Python. === Securing Python: Protecting the interpreter from code wielding fresh fruit === Brett Cannon: March 14, 2007 Python currently has no model for safe execution of untrusted code. This talk discusses why this is and how Brett is fixing the problem. === The Django Web Framework === Adrian Holovaty: February 6, 2007 Adrian offered some thoughts about its unique features and answer questions from the audience. Adrian Holovaty is the lead developer of the Django Web Framework. Adrian and his peers invented Django while working at World Online, a highly-renowned news Web operation in Lawrence, Kansas. His team's pioneering work on interactive journalism won numerous awards and was described in [[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/26/business/yourmoney/26kansas.html|The New York Times]], [[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4597203|NPR]] and [[http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail550.html|IT Conversations]]. Currently, Adrian is editor of editorial innovations at Washingtonpost. Newsweek Interactive (washingtonpost.com). His job involves coming up with ideas for site improvements and special projects, and implementing them. ---- = 2006 = === Programming OS X with Python & What is a full-stack Web Framework and why would I want one? === October 3, 2006 Dethe Elza: Programming OS X with Python Paul Prescod: What is a full-stack Web Framework and why would I want one? (aka: Django and Turbogears Python's answers to Ruby on Rails) === CherryPy, a web development toolkit === Mistu Banerjee: April 4, 2006 === Generators, Generator Expressions and Coroutines: Oh My! === Paul Prescod: March 7, 2006 Python has some amazing control structures that can make programming much easier and more convenient than in mainstream languages. Learn more about these structures in this talk. ---- = 2005 = === What’s new in Python 2.5 (hopefully) === Brett Cannon: December 6th, 2005 A review of all the funky new features we can look forward too in upcoming Python 2.5 releases === Solving Sudoko with Python === Ian Cavén: November 1st, 2005 Being interested in Sudoku puzzles but unwilling to spend the time every day to solve them, Ian wrote a Python program to explore strategies to solve these puzzles, finally arriving at a solver that uses Numeric arrays, sets and PyObjC interfaces to the Mac OS UI widgets; the algorithms and code are explained. === Desperately Seeking Abstraction === Mishtu Banerjee: Tuesday October 4th “I built an SQL query generator (as part of a larger project) based on the underlying abstraction of representing data models as "networks". It's a nice illustration of abstracting a particular analysis pattern (in this case, we’re abstracting the pattern of multi-table inner joins, which is one of the most common ad-hoc query types)” === Become an artist in your spare time using Python === Neil Kandalgaonkar: June 7th, 2005 Neil Kandalgaonkar spoke about a quick Python hack that generated some strange images. Some people want to hang the images on their wall and some call it “a muddly mess”. Decide for YOURSELF! Also, there was discussion of such trendy concepts as folksonomy, tagging, web APIs, and slagging of PHP. === 10 coolest things about Plone === Andy McKay: May 3, 2005 This talk was originally supposed to be: "137 cool things about Plone" but we talked Andy down to just ten. But these ten things are not just cool: they are the coolest. Plone enthusiasts and hecklers equally welcome. ---- CategoryUsergroups CategoryUsergroups |
Vancouver Python and Zope User Group
Welcome to the home page of the VanPyZ, the Vancouver Python and Zope User Group.
Monthly meetings are normally held on the first Tuesday of each month.
Mailing List
Join the VanPyZ mailing list to keep up to date with the happenings of the group.
Next talk
To Be Announced
Time: 7-8:30 PM (Then we generally go out for drinks and conversation afterwards)
Workspace 400 – 21 Water St. Vancouver BC, V6B 1A1
Future talks
Python in the Cloud
Karl Anderson: March 3, 2009
Cloud Computing on Hadoop, EC2, and S3 using only Python and some shell glue.
Scrambled Eggs: Digesting Python Packaging
Kevin Teague, April 7, 2009
There are currently many ways to manage Python-based projects. This talk is a high-level overview of some of the tools present in this space (Distutils, Setuptools, Buildout, VirtualEnv, Py2App, PyPI, Package Indexes) and will attempt to explain the different use-cases that each tool is attempting to solve.
Past talks
2009
Unit Testing in Python
Henry Prêcheur: February 3, 2009
What is testing? Why testing? How Unittest works with example(s). How Doctest works with example(s). Integration of Unittest & Doctest in your project
What I did (with Python) over the holidays
General discussion of web frameworks, cloud computing, 3D, parsing, robotics and more. Summary of this discussion can be found here.
2008
Parsing and building languages with PyMeta
Tom Marsell: October 7, 2008
Tom will be presenting PyMeta, a new parsing tool based on research from the Viewpoints Research Institute. PyMeta is a version of the VPRI OMeta (PDF) language ported to Python by Allen Short. Time: 7-8:30 PM (Then we generally go out for drinks and conversation afterwards)
Python 2.6/3.0
Brett Cannon: September 2, 2008
I am going to try to cover all the new features in both Python 2.6 and 3.0 (both slated to be released the first week of October). It will be an interactive presentation so feel free to bring any questions that you might have (although, if time doesn't allow it, I can answer questions after the meeting as well).
First looks at Google App Engine
Paul Prescod: May 6, 2008
Google App Engine is Google's attempt to make cloud computing a reality. With App Engine, developers can upload Python Web applications and have them run on Google infrastructure. "For free" you get code and data replication, failover and nearly infinite scalability (given that you adhere to certain programming rules). On the other hand, the current release of App Engine is very limited in its functionality and quotas and long-term features/pricing are unknown. At this talk we'll drill down and discuss what's right with App Engine, what's wrong with it and how it is likely to evolve.
April Fools Programming in Python
Apr 1, 2008
April Fools Programming in Python: forging functions, counterfeiting classes, mocking methods etc.
The once and Import
Brett Cannon: March 4, 2008
The once and future Import: How import works in Python 2.6 and beyond, and what it means for you
Python in Small Places: The XO and N800
Dethe Elza: February 5, 2008
Visual Programming, why it matters for Python
Dethe Elze: January 6, 2008
2007
Other languages from a Pythonic point of view: Haskell, Ruby, Erlang, Processing
Paul Prescod, Dethe Elza, and Brett Cannon: December 4, 2007
Experiences with Django, Turbogears and Twisted/Nevow
Ian Caven and Vlad Orlenko: November 6, 2007
Python and SWIG at Safe Software
Tom Weir: October 2, 2007
Python 3000
Brett Cannon: September 4, 2007
Under development in the mind of Guido for years, Python 3.0 is finally becoming a reality with a planned alpha in August. While great strides are being taken to not change the feel of the language, Python 3.0 does break backwards-compatibility and introduce many new features to the language (while removing other features to make room for the new one). This talk will be a basic overview of what Python 3.0 is trying to accomplish and how it is accomplishing it.
Brett is working towards his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of British Columbia while being one of the core developers of Python.
Stock trading with Python
April 3, 2007
An Automated Trading System (ATS) is used to find profitable trading strategies and electronically execute these strategies across in realtime.
We examine how the ATS retrieves data using TCP/IP sockets and stores large datasets in a HDF5 database. The trading platform uses this data to backtest trading strategies and manage executions across hundreds of stocks. Finally, we review how electronic stock trades can be made using a broker API... all using Python.
Securing Python: Protecting the interpreter from code wielding fresh fruit
Brett Cannon: March 14, 2007
Python currently has no model for safe execution of untrusted code. This talk discusses why this is and how Brett is fixing the problem.
The Django Web Framework
Adrian Holovaty: February 6, 2007
Adrian offered some thoughts about its unique features and answer questions from the audience. Adrian Holovaty is the lead developer of the Django Web Framework. Adrian and his peers invented Django while working at World Online, a highly-renowned news Web operation in Lawrence, Kansas. His team's pioneering work on interactive journalism won numerous awards and was described in The New York Times, NPR and IT Conversations. Currently, Adrian is editor of editorial innovations at Washingtonpost. Newsweek Interactive (washingtonpost.com). His job involves coming up with ideas for site improvements and special projects, and implementing them.
2006
Programming OS X with Python & What is a full-stack Web Framework and why would I want one?
October 3, 2006
Dethe Elza: Programming OS X with Python
Paul Prescod: What is a full-stack Web Framework and why would I want one? (aka: Django and Turbogears Python's answers to Ruby on Rails)
CherryPy, a web development toolkit
Mistu Banerjee: April 4, 2006
Generators, Generator Expressions and Coroutines: Oh My!
Paul Prescod: March 7, 2006
Python has some amazing control structures that can make programming much easier and more convenient than in mainstream languages. Learn more about these structures in this talk.
2005
What’s new in Python 2.5 (hopefully)
Brett Cannon: December 6th, 2005
A review of all the funky new features we can look forward too in upcoming Python 2.5 releases
Solving Sudoko with Python
Ian Cavén: November 1st, 2005
Being interested in Sudoku puzzles but unwilling to spend the time every day to solve them, Ian wrote a Python program to explore strategies to solve these puzzles, finally arriving at a solver that uses Numeric arrays, sets and PyObjC interfaces to the Mac OS UI widgets; the algorithms and code are explained.
Desperately Seeking Abstraction
Mishtu Banerjee: Tuesday October 4th
- “I built an SQL query generator (as part of a larger project) based on the underlying abstraction of representing data models as "networks". It's a nice illustration of abstracting a particular analysis pattern (in this case, we’re abstracting the pattern of multi-table inner joins, which is one of the most common ad-hoc query types)”
Become an artist in your spare time using Python
Neil Kandalgaonkar: June 7th, 2005
Neil Kandalgaonkar spoke about a quick Python hack that generated some strange images. Some people want to hang the images on their wall and some call it “a muddly mess”. Decide for YOURSELF! Also, there was discussion of such trendy concepts as folksonomy, tagging, web APIs, and slagging of PHP.
10 coolest things about Plone
Andy McKay: May 3, 2005
This talk was originally supposed to be: "137 cool things about Plone" but we talked Andy down to just ten. But these ten things are not just cool: they are the coolest. Plone enthusiasts and hecklers equally welcome.