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Tennessee Leeuwenburg: Setup for PyCon AU Tutorial
This is an attempt to provide attendees of PyCon AU 2015 with a guide to getting set up ahead of the tutorial. Getting set up in advance will assist greatly in getting the most of the tutorial. It will...
View ArticleDavid MacIver: Thinking with the machine
Content note: Rambling and slightly incoherent.When was the last time you got lost?It used to be very easy for me to get lost. I have a terrible sense of direction. Now I have an excellent sense of...
View ArticleSumith: GSoC Progress - Week 5
Hello, this post contains the fourth report of my GSoC progress. We hit Piranha's speed, the highlight of this week. ProgressWe were able to reach Piranha's speed. At an average 14-ish ms to the...
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BlueDynamics Alliance: Boosting Travis CI: Python and Buildout caching
zc.buildout is Pythons swiss knife to build complex enviroments. MacGywer would love it. Travis CI together with GitHub is a wonderful service for OpenSource projects to do collaborative development...
View ArticleGraham Dumpleton: Installing a custom Python version into a Docker image.
It is a growing problem with Linux distributions that many packages they ship quickly become out of date, and due to the policies of how the Linux distributions are managed, the packages do not get...
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Europython: EuroPython 2015: Standard rates deadline extended
We had originally planned switching to On-Desk Rates yesterday, but because ticket sales are going well, we are extending the deadline for more than a week.Buy our EuroPython 2015 TicketsOn-Desk...
View ArticleRichard Tew: Generating e-books with Calibre on Hostmonster
One thing the new generated Imaginary Realities web site currently lacks, which the old hand-written version had, is epub and PDF versions of the published issues that can be downloaded and read at...
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PyCharm: Feature Spotlight: Editing remote files
Happy Friday everyone!In today’s blog post I’m going to cover a new feature recently appeared in PyCharm 4.5.x series: editing files directly on remote hosts. In a previous blog post, Feature...
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Dougal Matthews: MkDocs Making Strides
When I last wrote about MkDocs, the most recent version was 0.12, but 0.13 was just around the corner. We are now hard at work on 0.15! So it is about time to do a quick update.With over 300 commits...
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Jaime Buelta: Compendium of Wondrous Links vol X
More interesting reads worth checking out Tech Use Python on AWS Lambda instead of JavaScript. Create Escher like images using Julia. BeeWares, a collection of tools to help in all the phases of Python...
View ArticleDavid MacIver: Some stuff on example simplification in Hypothesis
One of the slightly thankless tasks I engage in in Hypothesis (subtype: People only notice if I don’t do my job well) is example simplification. I spend a lot of time on example simplification – far...
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Alex Clark: Plone on Heroku
Dear Plone, welcome to 2015Picture it. The year was 2014. I was incredibly moved and inspired by this blog entry:http://www.niteoweb.com/blog/dear-plone-welcome-to-2014Someone had finally done it....
View ArticleWill McGugan: Build a database driven Markdown Wiki in 25 lines of code
This screencast demonstrates how to build a database driven, Markdown powered wiki from scratch in around 25 lines of code. Lines of code is of course a poor metric, but I think the end result of part...
View ArticleMoya Project: Creating a Wiki with Moya - Screencast
I'm starting a series of screencasts on how do build a web application in Moya. In part 1, I show how to build a functional Wiki.
View ArticleDavid MacIver: Back-pedalling on Python 2.6
I wrote a while back that I wouldn’t support Python 2.6 unless someone paid me to. I still think this is an eminently reasonable position which I encourage most people to take.Unfortunately I am not...
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Alex Clark: Pillow 2-9-0 Is Almost Out
Pillow 2.9.0 will be released on July 1, 2015.Pre-releasePlease help the Pillow Fighters prepare for the Pillow 2.9.0 release by downloading and testing this...
View ArticleRobin Wilson: IPython tips, tricks & notes – Part 1
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View ArticleMike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: David Beazley
This week we welcome David Beazley (@dabeaz) as our PyDev of the Week! David is the author of the Python Essential Reference and the co-author of the Python Cookbook, Third edition. He also has a blog...
View ArticleMartijn Faassen: Build a better batching UI with Morepath and Jinja2
IntroductionThis post is the first in what I hope will be a series on neat things you can do with Morepath. Morepath is a Python web micro framework with some very interesting capabilities. What we'll...
View ArticleDjango Weblog: Security advisory: simple_tag does not do auto-escaping
As per our documentation, the simple_tag decorator used for creating custom template tags does not run auto-escaping on its contents (up to and including Django 1.8). The team has noticed, however,...
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