Brian Okken: Lean Software Development (PTP015)
An introduction to Lean Software Development This is a quick intro to the concepts of Lean Software Development. I’m starting a journey of trying to figure out how to apply lean principles to software...
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Erik Marsja: Three ways to do a two-way ANOVA with Python
In an earlier post I showed four different techniques that enables two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) using Python. In this post we are going to learn how to do two-way ANOVA for independent...
View ArticleBrett Cannon: How to pitch Python 3 to management
[This blog post has been sitting as a draft for months, and I'm finally finishing while at home sick; sorry if that makes it a little less coherent compared to my other posts]Over on our Python team at...
View ArticleCodementor: 15 Essential Python Interview Questions
##IntroductionLooking for a Python job? Chances are you will need to prove that you know how to work with Python. Here are a couple of questions that cover a wide base of skills associated with Python....
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John Cook: Creating police siren sounds with frequency modulation
Yesterday I was looking into calculating fluctuation strength and playing around with some examples. Along the way I discovered how to create files that sound like police sirens. These are sounds with...
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EuroPython: EuroPython 2016: Talk voting will start on Monday
Having received almost 300 great proposals for talks, trainings, helpdesks and posters, we now call out to all attendees to vote for what you want to see on the conference schedule.Please note that you...
View ArticleStefan Scherfke: Advanced asyncio testing
In my last article, I showed how pytest’s fixture system and plug-in infrastructure can help you with writing cleaner and better tests. Fixtures allow you to create a clean event loop instance for...
View ArticleIan Ozsvald: Will we see “[module] on Python 3.4+ is free but only...
I’m curious about the transition in our ecosystem from Python 2 to Python 3. On stage at our monthly PyDataLondon meetups I’m known to badger folk to take the step and upgrade to reduce the support...
View ArticlePyCon: Why not join the sprints this year at PyCon?
A guest post by Naomi Ceder, one of our 2016 Sprint Coordinators.Sprinting has always been one of the hidden gems of PyCon, a part of every PyCon from the beginning, back in 2003. Hundreds of...
View ArticleNikola: Nikola v7.7.7 is out!
On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Nikola v7.7.7. It fixes some bugs and adds new features.What is Nikola?Nikola is a static site and blog generator,...
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PyPy Development: PyPy 5.0 released
PyPy 5.0 We have released PyPy 5.0, about three months after PyPy 4.0.1. We encourage all users of PyPy to update to this version. You can download the PyPy 5.0 release...
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Python Anywhere: Deprecation warning: "mysql.server" hostname being retired
Relax everyone! We're not switching off our mysql service, just switching off one of the old names it was available under. You'll still be able to access it, and more reliably, under the new name, with...
View ArticleDavid Winterbottom: Bootstrapped virtualenvs
The excellent virtualenvwrapper supports a postmkvirtualenv script to bootstrap your virtual environments. Here's a useful implementation:#!/usr/bin/env bash# Grab project name from virtualenv...
View ArticleJim Hughes: Cookies with httplib
I needed to do a simple http get in the other day, the only catch was that I had to send a cookie. My first thoughts were that this might be tricky, but in practise it's a doddle. Below is a simplistic...
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Import Python: ImportPython Issue 63
Word From Our SponsorPython Programmers let companies apply to you, not the other way around. Receive interview offers which include salary and equity information. Companies see each other's offers,...
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...
View ArticleJonathan Street: Lightning talk slides on deep learning with keras
At the DCPython Office Hours event this month I gave a lightning talk on convolutional neural networks implemented with the keras library. The notebook is now up on github.Deep neural networks are...
View ArticleHector Garcia: From LIKE to Full-Text Search (part II)
If you missed it, read the first post of this series What do you do when you need to filter a long list of records for your users? That was the question we set to answer in a previous post. We saw...
View ArticleBojan Mihelac: Django cookie consent application
django-cookie-consent is a reusable application for managing various cookies and visitors consent for their use in Django project.Features:cookies and cookie groups are stored in models for easy...
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