PortlandPythonUserGroup¶
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The Portland Oregon Python User Group has presentations the second Tuesday of the month, and a project hack night on the fourth Tuesday of the month.
Next Meeting¶
When: Second Tuesday of the Month, 6:30pm
Where: Urban Airship 334 NW 11th Ave Portland, OR 97209
What: See http://www.meetup.com/pdxpython/ for upcoming meetings.
Resources¶
Mailing list: portland@python.org
IRC: #pdxpython on Freenode
Twitter: http://twitter.com/pdxpython
We have a Meetup group with a local calendar, feeds and automated event reminders.
Need to contact an organizer? < snakeherders@pdxpython.org >
Past Meetings¶
2011-2013¶
Feel free to import content from Meetup
Nov 12, 2013 – Battle of the Ja(y)sons
Jayson Falkner on Using Django QuerySets Efficiently
Jason Champion on Parallel Computing with CUDA and OpenCL
June 12nd, 2012¶
Developing & Deploying “Large” Scale Web Applications - Matt Robenolt
Lightning Talks
November 9th, 2010¶
MOTM: ctypes - Joel Bernstein
Optimizing C Extensions - Case Van Horsen
Extending Python with Fortran - Brett Carter
Extending Python with OCaml - John Melesky
October 12th, 2010¶
STDLIB THUNDERDOOOOME!!!
September 14, 2010¶
Social at Deschutes Brewery!
June 8th, 2010¶
Michel’s Monthly Module: multiprocessing (pypi) - John Melesky
Diesel - Michael Schurter
Twisted - Karl Anderson
May 11th 2010¶
Michel’s Monthly Module: profile/cProfile - John Melesky
Lightning talks!
RunSnakeRun - Joel Bernstein
pyntch - Kyle Jones
coverage.py branch coverage - Dan Colish
repoze.profile - Adam Lowry
pytestlogger - Jeff Schwaber
Xapian and xodb - Michel Pelletier
Pizza sponsored by VanderHouwen & Associates!
April 13th 2010¶
March 9th, 2010¶
Michel(le)’s Monthly Module: functools (Michelle Rowley)
Recap of PyCon 2010 (Adam Lowry, Michael Schurter, Michelle Rowley)
“What I Learned at PyCon… Last Year”: lessons learned over a year of functional web testing at Idealist.org. (Jason Kirtland)
Pizza & beverage was sponsored by Survey Monkey!
February 9th, 2010¶
Michel’s Monthly Module (dateutil) - by Michel P. himself, this month! Yay!
Cool Tools! Lightning(ish) talks about cool tools:
I Hate Passwords: ssh-copy-id, ssh config, and managing multiple keys (Chris Pitzer)
Play Nice: virtualenv, pip, ipython, with a special guest appearance from ipdb (Chris Pitzer)
bpython: a replacement for ipython, and how to integrate it with Django and virtualenv (Chris McDonald)
January 12th 2010¶
Michel’s Monthly Module (future by Jason Kirtland)
Geohash: Michel Pelletier
Psycopg2 and PostGIS: Webb Sprague
GeoDjango: Tim Welch
October 13th 2009¶
Michel’s Monthly Module (hashlib & hmac) by Adam Lowry
Intro to Bitten (http://bitten.edgewall.org/) by John Hampton (slides)
September 8th 2009¶
Pythonic book raffle
Michel’s Monthly Module (ConfigParser) by Kyle Jones
Solace by special guest Armin Ronacher
“Preeminent Python Packaging Presentation” by Michael Schurter
August 11th, 2009¶
Pizza & beer was sponsored by Emma!
July 14th, 2009¶
Social meeting!
June 16th, 2009¶
Module of the Month (Michel Pelletier)
Screen Scraping (Joel Bernstein)
Glashammer (Kevin Turner)
Development Environments (Jeff Schwaber)
Cython (Michael Schurter)
Urban Edibles (Michael Bunsen)
XML-RPC (Igal Koshevoy)
SimpleHTTPServer (Reid Beels)
May 12th, 2009¶
Practical Distributed Version Control
bzr, git, hg, code hosting, patch reviews, more!
April 14th 2009¶
Recap of PyCon
Planning of new pdxpython.org
March 10th 2009¶
Short intro to PyTyrant/Tokyo Tyrant/Tokyo Cabinet by Michael Schurter
PyParsing examples by Brett Carter
Machine Learning topics by John Melesky
February 10th 2009¶
VPython (Kirby Urner)
Zine, the New Python Blog Software (Jason Kirtland)
Werkzeug (Adam Lowry)
January 13th 2009¶
Metaclasses (John Melesky)
deque overview (Michel Pelletier)
Tricks with dicts (Jason Kirtland)
Natural Language Processing (Monica Toth)
December 9th 2008¶
Winter Coders’ Social!
November 11th 2008¶
Michel: Coroutines in Python
Michael: formencode, Django forms
Adam: WTForms
Jason: flatland
October 14th 2008¶
Python Release Party! D.I.Y. What’s New in 2.6 and 3.0
Thanks Adam, Brett, Igal, Jason, Kirby, Matt, Michel & Reid
September 9th, 2008¶
Brett: Building and Distributing Python Eggs
Mark: DemocracyLab
Leo Soto: Django on Jython
August 12th, 2008¶
Beer and Bytecode
July 8th, 2008¶
Framework vs Toolkit!
Rami & Roman: Django
Michel: Twisted & Werkzeug
June 10th, 2008¶
Michael: Django
Igal: TurboGears & Pylons
Jason: WSGI
Michel: Twisted
Pizza courtesy of Vidoop! Books courtesy of O’Reilly!
May 13th 2008¶
Adam: z3c.rml
Matt: Configuration files and AST transformations
April 8th 2008¶
Jason: Decorators/inspect/code generation inspectexec
Jason: sliderepl
Mark: ipython
Discussion: AppEngine
March 11th 2008¶
Michel: Mocker
Discussion: Testing methodologies
February 12th 2008¶
Jason: virtualenv
Kirk: PySoy
January 8th 2008¶
Cozy round-table discussions about PySoy, GUI frameworks, web frameworks and GUI vs. Web.
December 11th 2007¶
First annual December Coders’ Bash!
Food, Beer, Games and Socializing
Geek discussions of many different geek flavors(tm)
Many thanks to Sam Keen of PDXPHP, our own Jeff Schwaber, and all the other individuals who helped put this party together for their hard work. It was an incredible turnout, and everyone had a fabulous time!
November 13th 2007¶
October 9th, 2007¶
Small group discussions-
Beginning Python, ReportLab, Mercurial, web frameworks and unit testing.
September 11th, 2007¶
Kevin defects to the Ruby Coding Dojo!
Jason: PyFlakes
Kirby: P4E (Programming for Everyone)
Kirby: Programming the Tux Droid
Mark: PIL Projects
August 14th, 2007¶
Extending Python with D via pyd
OSCON wrap-up: Python 3000 (.ppt) and Code Like a Pythonista
July 10th, 2007¶
Intro to debugging with PDB
Web automation with mechanize
A Python frontend for a microcontroller
SQLAlchemy in 5 (ok, 20) minutes slides, video
June 12th, 2007¶
Social
May 11, 2007¶
Planning
May 8, 2007¶
We exist!