Kiwi Pycon 2011

Talks

• Keynotes
  • Python in the Web: Can we keep up?
  • Metaprogramming
  • relate or !relate
• Giving your website a command line interface
  • About the presenter
  • Why a command-line interface?
  • Protocol Choices
  • Authentication
  • Live the Server Code
  • Live the Client Code
  • Conclusion
• Introduction to Matplotlib for Data Analysis
  • Why Matplotlib?
  • Dependencies
  • Install
  • On-line Examples
  • Ways to run matplotlib
  • Simple bar graph using bar
  • Things to think about
• Python distributed programming using gevent and redis
  • Roadmap
  • How many links does google index?
  • Talking about a crawler
  • Async 101
  • gevent - Monkey King and Pool
  • Redis - Data Structure Server
  • Lessons Learned - Dashboard
  • Lesson Learned - Fine balance
  • Lessons Learned - Use Profiler
• Behaviour Driven Development
  • Why have I asked you here today
  • Intro
  • BDD
  • Conclusions
• Those niggly beginner’s questions answered by a code craft ninja
  • Audience Design
• Lightning Talks
  • Web Scraping
  • Crowdsourcing from NZ
  • Web Socket
  • Google App Engine
  • Wiki-to-speech Robot Presentations
  • Pythonic Slide Generation
  • Valgrind Memcheck
  • Sorry state of the New Zealand Job Market
  • What Parkour Taught Me About Programming
  • Dependency Management in Python with Buildout
  • Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should OR An evil web framework/thing
  • Qtile: A Python Tiling Window Manager
  • Job security in Python
• Porting (and staying ported) to Python 3
  • Overview
  • Why Bother?
  • Sample
  • Porting to Python 3
  • Lots of issues
  • You now have a working port, now what?
• Django for n00bs
  • Awesomeness
  • Introduction
  • Frameworks vs CMS’s
  • Django backstory
  • Pros and cons of Django
  • Sample model code
  • Sample view code
  • Quick overview
• Struggling to Find an Open Source Business Model
  • Abstract
  • Monetisation
  • Why an open source business model?
  • Successful open source business models
  • Models
  • Statements
• Automated testing in Python and beyond
  • Have unit tests
  • Disney Stuff
  • Other language test frameworks
  • Write Tests
  • Re-run
• Asynchronous and Evented programming in Python
  • Introduction
  • Threading
  • Multiprocessing
  • Asynchronous is hard
  • So really, what is async?
  • Async code is hard
  • Synchronous Example of same thing
  • Asynchronous != faster
  • So why do this?
  • What about Tornado?
  • So why Tornado over Twisted
• New Zealand Python User Group - The Whats, the Whys and the Hows

Tourist suggestions

• Pickton

• Malborough Sound

• Nelson

• Golden Bay

• Waitomo

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