Europython: EuroPython 2015: Financial Aid
The financial aid work group has started to email everyone who applied for financial aid this year.We are fortunate to have a budget of almost 20,000 EUR available for financial aid this year, thanks...
View ArticleJulien Danjou: Timezones and Python
Recently, I've been fighting with the never ending issue of timezones. I never thought I would have plunged into this rabbit hole, but hacking on OpenStack and Gnocchi I felt into that trap easily is,...
View ArticlePython Piedmont Triad User Group: PYPTUG Project Night - Wednesday June 17
We might do some data visualization, work on a drone project, look at APRS transmision issues or GPS lock problem with the HAB flight, devops server config (ZFS) or even jupyter, python and big data,...
View ArticleImport Python: Conversation with Liza Avramenko - Founder Checkio, Empire of...
CheckiO is game for coders. It helps improve code with the help of their community. CheckiO is been there for couple of years and they are about to launch something new. Read to know more. Would love...
View ArticleDjango Weblog: Django Software Foundation announces Diversity Statement
While the Django Software Foundation (DSF) has passed a Community Code of Conduct that indirectly establishes that we consider diversity to be a desirable goal, and the DSF has funded many activities...
View Articleبايثون العربي: بايثون عصر جديد من البرمجة
المطور لديه إمكانية الاختيار بين عدة لغات برمجة موجودة في السوق لكتابة تطبيقات الويب ولكن العديد من مطوري المواقع يفضلون لغة بايثون لأنها تسمح لهم بكتابة مشاريع كبيرة عبر سطور برمجية قليلة الى جانب...
View ArticleLogilab: Experiments on building a Jenkins CI service with Salt
In this blog post, I'll talk about my recent experiments on building a continuous integration service with Jenkins that is, as much as possible, managed through Salt. We've been relying on a Jenkins...
View ArticlePyCharm: Announcing the PyCharm 4.5.2 release update
Today we’re glad to announce the immediate availability of the PyCharm 4.5.2 update. It’s already available for download from our website. It also will be available soon as a patch update from within...
View ArticleDaily Tech Video (Python): [Video 208] Anton Caceres: Asynchronous Web...
Python 3 has been out for a while, but many companies haven’t yet found a compelling reason to move from Python 2. One feature which has been getting a growing amount of attention, and which is...
View ArticlePyPy Development: PyPy and ijson - a guest blog post
This gem was posted in the ijson issue tracker after some discussion on #pypy, and Dav1dde kindly allowed us to repost it here:"So, I was playing around with parsing huge JSON files (19GiB, testfile...
View ArticleMatthew Rocklin: Pandas Categoricals
tl;dr: Pandas Categoricals efficiently encode and dramatically improve performance on data with text categoriesDisclaimer: Categoricals were created by the Pandas development team and not by me.There...
View ArticleGiampaolo Rodola: psutil 3.0
Here we are. It's been a long time since my last blog post and my last psutil release. The reason? I've been travelling! I mean... a lot. I've spent 3 months in Berlin, 3 weeks in Japan and 2 months in...
View ArticleGraham Dumpleton: My dynamic DNS service using AWS Route53/S3 now supports...
Heroku is currently in the process of changing their pricing structure, with what can be run using their free tier being affected. Specifically, to qualify for the free tier, any web application must...
View ArticleEnd Point: IPython Tips and Tricks
Recently I have been working on Python automation scripts. Very often I use IPython to develop/debug the code. IPython is an advanced interactive python shell. It is a powerful tool which has many more...
View ArticlePeter Bengtsson: How I git
tl;dr I use bgg to shortcut a lot of tedious git commands. Once a certain pattern appears where you find yourself doing the same thing over and over the first thing that should spring to mind is: let's...
View ArticleGraham Dumpleton: Musings about PaaS and running many small micro services.
One of the problems with various PaaS offerings out there is that the resource limits they offer are actually too large for your needs. This is especially the case where you want to run a bunch of...
View ArticlePyCharm: PyCon APAC 2015: Winners of PyCharm License Raffle
Recently we got back from PyCon APAC 2015 that took place in Taipei, Taiwan a couple of weeks ago. What a great conference it was!The PyCon APAC is now the third largest Python conference in the World...
View ArticleAstro Code School: Learn About Astro Code School Info Session
Join us online at 10am EDT on Thursday, June 25, 2015 for a Google Hangout information session. Caleb and I will host the hangout and talk a little bit about Astro then answer any questions you might...
View ArticleGeert Vanderkelen: MySQL 5.7 with JSON and Connector/Python
In this post we will use the MySQL 5.7.7 labs release which has support for JSON documents stored in a special data type. We will be using Connector/Python and show how to get going with updating...
View ArticleWingware News: Wing IDE 5.1.5: June 19, 2015
Wing IDE 5.1.5 adds support for Python 3.5b2, Django 1.8 unit tests, Less and HSS CSS extension languages, Step Out to Here, improved auto-editing in the Python Shell and Debug Probe, and makes about...
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