Schedule: Python sessions
Python is the go-to language of choice for today’s developer. With Python everywhere, we focus on what you need to know: advice for professional Python developers, in-depth coverage on developing web apps with Django, Google App Engine, and exciting and novel reports of Python in the wild.
Chander Ganesan
(Open Technology Group, Inc)
Average rating:
(3.94, 16 ratings)
The Django framework is a fast, flexible, easy to learn, and easy to use framework for designing and deploying web sites and services using Python. In this session, we'll cover the fundamentals of development with Django, generate a Django data model, and put together a simple web site using the framework.
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Jacob Kaplan-Moss
(Revolution Systems, LLC),
Frank Wiles
(Revolution Systems, LLC)
Average rating:
(4.29, 14 ratings)
So you've written a Django site... now what? Writing the application is just
the beginning; now you've got to put it into production! In this hands-on
workshop we'll walk through the creation of a full Django deployment
environment running on a cluster of (virtual) machines.
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Mike Mueller
(Python Academy)
Average rating:
(2.88, 17 ratings)
Although Python programs may be slow for certain types of tasks, there are many different ways to improve performance. This tutorial will introduce optimization strategies and demonstrate techniques to implement them.
Participants will learn how to decide what might be the optimal solution for a certain performance problem. Participants are strongly recommended to bring laptops.
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Alex Martelli
(Google)
Average rating:
(3.62, 21 ratings)
Design patterns can be very useful in Python (as in any other language) but there are right ways and wrong ways to choose which ones to implement, and how to implement. This advanced tutorial offers many practical examples of "the good, the bad, and the beautiful" ("the ugly" doesn't apply to Python!-) and some theoretical underpinnings for them.
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Average rating:
(4.00, 6 ratings)
This hands on tutorial will walk you through the steps of building a Wave robot, from setting up the Python client library through to using the major APIs that Wave provides.
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Location: Portland 252
James Tauber
(Eldarion)
Average rating:
(4.00, 2 ratings)
Pinax is an open-source platform built on the Django Web Framework that dramatically reduces the time it takes to develop Web sites. By providing common components in a high-extensible framework, Pinax increases the speed at which websites can be developed and launched. Features include account management, integration with OpenID and OAuth, invitations, friendships, groups, tagging and more.
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Location: Portland 252
Mike Biglan
(Concentric Sky),
M Wiggins
(Concentric Sky)
Average rating:
(2.92, 12 ratings)
We were fortunate this past year to develop two of the larger Django applications out there – in the span of 12 weeks: michaelmoore.com and Santa Fe Institute's santafe.edu. Between the two, these sites have multiple layers of memcached caching, multiple web servers and database servers, integrated site search (Lucene/SOLR and Google GSA), DjangoCMS, and integrations with iCal and Alfresco.
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Location: Portland 252
Average rating:
(1.00, 1 rating)
With an increased number of government and public sector organisations releasing datasets to the public under reasonable reuse terms, it now becomes interesting to try and do something with this data. This talk will take a couple of those local real-world datasets and create a minimal website for remixing them, using Django as the underlying framework.
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Location: Portland 252
Tobias Ivarsson
(Neo Technology)
Average rating:
(3.00, 7 ratings)
In this session you will learn how to use the Neo4j Graph Database for persistence in Django web applications. A graph database, such as Neo4j, is a database that models data as a graph data structure with focus on the relationships between entities, and each node as its own entity, rather than the structure of data records. This makes it a good fit for object oriented web frameworks like Django.
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Location: Portland 252
Christophe Pettus
(PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.00, 2 ratings)
With support right out of the box, Django is one of the most efficient ways of deploying a PostgreSQL-backed web application. We'll discuss techniques to get maximum efficiency out of PostgreSQL using Django, including schema design tips, Django ORM techniques, transaction management, and extending PostgreSQL.
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Location: D136
Joe Gregorio
(Google)
Average rating:
(2.67, 6 ratings)
We have many concurrency/multiprocessing capabilities at our finger tips, but none of them are a model for multiprocessing, they are only tools on which you would build an implementation of such a model. So what are the models we can choose from? How would they be implemented in Python?
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Location: D136
Alex Martelli
(Google)
Average rating:
(3.33, 9 ratings)
Does Python have Design Patterns? You bet! Whatever the misguided meme going around is claiming to the contrary, every field of human endeavor has Patterns, and so of course does Python. This talk shows how and why, recapping what Patterns are all about, Design patterns in particular, and presenting examples of how they work best in Python, both singly and as part of a Language of Patterns.
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Location: D136
Rob Lanphier
(Wikimedia Foundation)
Average rating:
(2.44, 16 ratings)
There are a number of toolkits available that make it much easier than ever before to design delightful, intuitive user interfaces for the terminal window. This talk will explore several options for Python, including cmd, curses, newt/snack and urwid. I'll compare the different approaches for different application domains, and show some shortcuts for the impatient.
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Location: D136
Tobias Ivarsson
(Neo Technology)
Average rating:
(2.29, 7 ratings)
Python is a great Programming Language. The JVM is a great runtime platform. Jython is an excellent implementation of Python for the JVM. But there is room for improvement. In this talk I will share with you how Jython is evolving to become even better in the future. Learn how you can take advantage of the improving Jython in your code.
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Location: D136
Akkana Peck
(*)
Average rating:
(4.50, 4 ratings)
Learn how to write custom GIMP plug-ins in two languages: Script-fu,
GIMP's native scripting language, and Python.
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Location: D136
Sandrine Ribeau
(Logilab)
Average rating:
(1.60, 5 ratings)
CubicWeb is a semantic web application framework, licensed under the LGPL, that empowers developers to efficiently build web applications by reusing components (called cubes) and following the well known object-oriented design principles. It was designed to develop semantic web applications that have both a HTML/Ajax rich user interface and a RDF/OWL-based data interface (www.cubicweb.org).
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