Robin Wilson: Reading AERONET data in Pandas: a simple helper function
I use data from the AERONET network of sun photometers a lot in my work, and do a lot of processing of the data in Python. As part of this I usually want to load the data into pandas – but because of...
View ArticleOmaha Python Users Group: July 20 Meeting – Intro to ML and Algorithmic Trading
Jeff Milewski will be giving a talk, “introduction to machine learning and algorithmic trading using Quantopian.” He’ll briefly explain some machine learning techniques and libraries and how they can...
View ArticleIlian Iliev: Django compressor and image preloading
Preface: Have you noticed how on some websites when you click on a link that opens a lightbox or any overlay for first time it takes some time to display the border/background/button images. Not quite...
View ArticleIlian Iliev: The road to hell is paved with regular expressions ...
... or what is the cost of using regular expressions for simple tasksRegular expressions are one of the most powerful tools in computing I have ever seen. My previous post about Django compressor and...
View ArticleIlian Iliev: Automated deployment with Ubuntu, Fabric and Django
A few months ago I started to play with Fabric and the result was a simple script that automates the creation of a new Django project. In the last months I continued my experiments and extended the...
View ArticleIlian Iliev: Django project file structure
As I promised in Automated deployment with Ubuntu, Fabric and Django I will use this post to explain the file structure that I use for my Django projects and what I benefit from it. So here is my...
View ArticleIlian Iliev: Automation, Fabric and Django - presentation
As a follow up post of Automated deployment with Ubuntu, Fabric and Django here are the slides from my presentation on topic "Automation, Fabric and Django". Unfortunately there is no audio podcast but...
View ArticleIlian Iliev: Simple Site Checker and the User-Agent header
Preface: Nine months ago(I can't believe it was that long) I created a script called Simple Site Checker to ease the check of sitemaps for broken links. The script code if publicly available at Github....
View ArticleIlian Iliev: Functions in Python presentation
Here is my presentation part of the in company Python course.Functions in python from Ilian IlievThe last slide - "Problem to solve" is something like a simple homework. Sample solutions will be...
View ArticleIlian Iliev: Functions in Python Homework
After some delay(please excuse me for it) here are sample solutions of the problems defined in the presentation Functions in Python. Solutions are also available at GitHub.
View ArticleIlian Iliev: Introduction to Django - presentation
This presentation shows the basics of Django - what is inside the framework and explains the Model-View-Template system. One of the most important parts is a diagram how the request is processed and...
View ArticleIlian Iliev: Django for Web Prototyping
Or how to use the benefits of Django template system during the PSD to HTML phaseThere are two main approaches to start designing a new project - Photoshop mock-up or an HTML prototype. The first one...
View ArticleIlian Iliev: Python Interview Question and Answers
Update 2: You can also check the follow up post Django interview questions.For the last few weeks I have been interviewing several people for Python/Django developers so I thought that it might be...
View ArticleIlian Iliev: Resurection
Well, as some of you may have seen this blog was on hold for quite a long time. There were multiple reasons mainly my Ph.D. and changing my job but it is back online. So, what is new? As a start this...
View ArticleIlian Iliev: Working with intervals in Python
Brief: Working with intervals in Python is really easy, fast and simple. If you want to learn more just keep reading. Task description: Lets say that the case if the following, you have multiple users...
View ArticleIlian Iliev: Django, pytz, NonExistentTimeError and AmbiguousTimeError
Brief: In one of the project I work on we had to convert some old naive datetime objects to timezone aware ones. Converting naive datetime to timezone aware one is usually a straightforward job. In...
View ArticleIlian Iliev: PyCon Sweden 2015
In a few words PyCon Sweden 2015 was awesome. Honestly, this was my first Python conference ever but I really hope it won't be the last.Outside the awesome talks and great organisation it was really...
View ArticleIlian Iliev: Django interview questions ...
... and some answersWell I haven't conducted any interviews recently but this one has been laying in my drafts for a quite while so it is time to take it out of the dust and finish it. As I have said...
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Ilian Iliev: Service Discovery with Smartstack
A week of innovationFirst of all I want to thank Lifesum for having another "Innovation Week", it is a great opportunity and I hope that more companies will start following it. In a few words the idea...
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Cobe.io: Cobe attends EuroPython 2016
From the 17th July to 24th July, Cobe will be at the EuroPython 2016 conference in Bilbao, Spain. Come and find us at our stall to find out more about our SaaS monitoring product.EuroPython...
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