Fast Test, Slow Test
Most unit tests are not unit tests and their authors suffer for it. What is unit testing, really? How can writing them prevent classic testing problems? If you do write them, what trade-offs are you...
View ArticleDistributing Python with PyInstaller
The talk will focus on how to distribute multi-platform proprietary Python applications, using PyInstaller. PyInstaller takes a program written in Python and turns it into a static executable (binary)...
View ArticleIntroduction to Erlang for Python Programmers
This video presents one experience learning to program in Erlang, including what Erlang brings to the table and why you might want to make Erlang your next programming language. It discusses Erlang’s...
View ArticlePython Web Templating Battle
Popular templating engines using in the Python world are compared and contrasted. Increasingly, frameworks allow many different choices in templating engines. This video discusses the different...
View ArticleAsynchronous Python Tasks with Django and Celery
Learn how to configure Celery for development and how to create and run simple distributed tasks from Django views. A common pattern in Django web applications is to pass long-running tasks off to a...
View ArticleDesigning Your Open Source Project
There is an ever present rift between designers and software developers and it is one that has existed since our paths started crossing. Learn how to be mindful of design in your own open source...
View ArticleDeleting Code Is Hard And You Should Do It
Adding code is easy. Everyone gets their start by cut-n-pasting some else’s code. But every line of code you don’t need is a burden. Delete that s**t. Video Producer: PyOhio Conference
View ArticleNINJA-IDE for Python
One of the recurrent questions in all the Python communities around the world is: “What is a good IDE for Python?” As answer to that question NINJA-IDE born from a group of members of the Argentinian...
View ArticlePython for Humans
Python’s ecosystem is held up to a high standard, but it falls short in a few key areas. A handful of crucial APIs are an absolute pain to work with. We’ll go over where these APIs went wrong and learn...
View ArticleTwisted in Python
Twisted is an open source event-driven networking engine written in Python. In many Python circles, Twisted is the recommended framework for all networking and multitasking applications. Twisted...
View ArticleSpeeding up a Python Program 114000 Times
Optimizations are one thing, but making a serious data collection program run 114,000 times faster is another thing entirely. Learn how it has been done. Meeting organizer: San Francisco Python Meetup...
View ArticleBringing New Developers up to Speed on Django
Four months ago Julia Grace had never even seen a Django template. But she is an engineer; coming up to speed couldn’t be that hard, right? Wrong. Doing so efficiently and effectively was tough. She...
View ArticleBuilding a Python Service Stack
This video presents how Yelp has evolved their Python service stack to deal with the challenges encountered in an increasingly distributed production environment. Video producer: Twitter University
View ArticleDon’t Do This With Python
Learn some things you should never (probably ever) do to or in Python. Warranties may be voided. Video producer: http://pycon-au.org/
View ArticleMetaclasses in Python
Metaclasses take the mantra “everything is an object” to the next level. One of Python’s fascinating lesser-known features, they allow you to intervene on the creation of classes themselves, and not...
View ArticleScalling Prezi from 25 to 25 million users
Prezi.com has been built on Python code from the start. That’s about the only thing that has remained constant in Prezi.com’s codebase as it grew. Along the way, we’ve had to solve all sorts of...
View ArticleImmutability in Clojure, Ruby, Javascript and Python
This talk surveys the current state of immutable data in Ruby, JavaScript and Python, comparing and contrasting it to Clojure. Following the rise of Clojure, many of us have become aware of the idea of...
View ArticleScalable Realtime Architecture With Python
This talk will focus on you can readily implement highly scalable and fault tolerant realtime architectures, such as dashboards, using Python and tools like Storm, Kafka, and ZooKeeper. We will focus...
View ArticlePython 2.7 and Python 3
Kenneth Reitz, Python evangelist at Heroku and author of the popular Requests library, discusses the state of Python today, the division in the community, and how we can forge ahead into a shiny...
View ArticlePython Driven Company
Adopting Python across a company brings extra agility and productivity not provided by traditional mainstream tools like Excel. This is the story of programmers teaching non-programmers, from different...
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