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PyCon AU 2012 sprints

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Graeme

The last two days of PyCon AU were devoted to sprints. There were active sprints for CPython, Django, Zookeepr, Requests, Persona, and various other projects. There were about seventy people on the Monday, and forty on the Tuesday. Chris N … Continue reading →

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PyCon AU 2012 highlights

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Graeme

PyCon AU 2012 was held this last weekend (Aug 18 – 19) in beautiful Hobart. Here are some of my highlights… There were two great keynotes by Mark Ramm and Kenneth Reitz. The biggest problem of PyCon AU? Too many … Continue reading →

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CodeWars at PyCon AU 2012

Posted on August 19, 2012 by Graeme

PyCon AU started this year with CodeWars on the Friday night. The elimination round saw teams starting with a link to an EXE file that led to a puzzle of missing prime numbers. The first four teams with the correct … Continue reading →

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PyCon Australia 2012 – tutorial #2 notes

Posted on August 19, 2012 by Graeme

The second of my PyCon AU 2012 conference tutorials is entitled Processing data with Python, using standard library modules you (probably) never knew about. Here are the tutorial notes and the

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PyCon Australia 2012 – tutorial #1 notes

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Graeme

I am giving two tutorials at PyCon AU 2012 this weekend. The first tutorial is titled How to write a well-behaved Python command line application. Here are the tutorial notes and the source code (as a ZIP archive).

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Notes from MPUG, August 2012

Posted on August 14, 2012 by Graeme

These are my notes from the August 2012 Melbourne Python Users Group meeting at Inspire 9. Andrew Walker (DSTO), Daniel Cousens (Swinburne) – “A grab bag of Pythonic computational geometry code” Andrew and Daniel gave a tag-team test run of … Continue reading →

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Notes from MPUG, July 2012

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Graeme

These are my notes from the July 2012 Melbourne Python Users Group meeting at Inspire 9. Bianca Gibson – Blender games using Python Bianca demoed Whirlstrom, a game written in 48 hours, as part of the Global Game Jam competition. … Continue reading →

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Notes from MPUG, June 2012

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Graeme

These are my notes from the Melbourne Python Users Group meeting this month at Inspire 9. Any errors are 99% likely to be mine in the transcribing or the understanding, rather than the speaker’s. Tennessee Leeuwenburg – Udacity and Coursera: … Continue reading →

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