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= Next talk = === Scrambled Eggs: Digesting Python Packaging === Kevin Teague, Jan 6 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. = Future talks = ... = Past talks = === 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 === 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. === 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. |
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Next talk
Scrambled Eggs: Digesting Python Packaging
Kevin Teague, Jan 6 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.
Future talks
...
Past talks
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
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.
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.