This is a talk I gave last night at the Cleveland Web Standard Meetup, introducing the Python-based web framework Django.  It is a very, very basic talk, meant to introduce the concepts without digging into the code too deeply.

I want to thank Bridget Stewart, David Mead, Brad Colbow, Brad Dielman, Dave, and Joe Fiorini for being good sports when I ( Read more... )

Episode Two of From Python Import Podcast is the first of two episodes where we’re going to explore PEP 20, that is, The Zen of Python.

Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
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Hacked. Went to two talks on Mercurial. Hacked. Ate. Flew Home. Unpacked. Tired. Wrap-up later this week.

Good night.


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Today was made of twenty-four karat win.

• We had three excellent keynotes, but the one that stood out was Mark Shuttleworth’s discussion of Cadence, Quality, and Design, in which he discussed the discipline of development on a timed schedule, and how it has helped the Ubuntu teams.
• David Beazley’s Understanding the Python GIL was as crunchy as I’d ( Read more... )

My tutorial today, Testing Websites With Python and Selenium, was not as promising as I hoped. In fact, I was rather disappointed with the comedy of errors that ensued.

1. The talk started 30 minutes late.
2. We spent the first hour configuring our computers, something we could have done before the talk if there had been any notes circulated.
3. Even once we ( Read more... )

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