Articles about the Iowa Python User’s Group (AKA: Pyowa)
Textual is a Python package used to create cross-platform Text User Interfaces (TUI). This may sound like you’ll be creating a user interface with ASCII-art, but that is not the case. Textual is quite advanced and allows you to add widgets to your terminal applications, including buttons, context switchers, scroll bars, checkboxes, inputs and more. […]
An Intro to Textual – Creating Text User Interfaces with Python Read More »
The local Python users group, Pyowa, was restarted last night after a year and a half hibernation. I hadn’t been to one of their meetings in a few years, but I had decided at the end of 2016 to get it going again. Once the ball was rolling, we got multiple offers of sponsorships for
Pyowa Meeting (Feb 2017) Read More »
Last Thursday (the 5th) I attended Pyowa, the local Iowa Python Users group I founded a few years ago. We had Scott Peterson from Principal Financial Group come and talk to us about Library Gadget, a cool Django-based website he created to track what library books his family has checked out. Now he has lots
January 2012 Pyowa Wrap Up Read More »
We had our October Pyowa meeting last night (10/07/2011) at the IMT Group building in West Des Moines, IA. One of their programmers gave a talk on the python open document (pod) library that is included with the Appy framework. The gist of the talk was that you could create template files in LibreOffice or
October 2011 Pyowa Wrap-up Read More »
We had our monthly Pyowa meeting yesterday, Thursday, June 2nd at the IMT Group building in West Des Moines. Refreshments were provided. There was pop and Little Caesar’s pizza. We had two good talks. The first was given by Scott and he spoke on the topics of printing labels to a Dymo label printer using
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This is for all you Pyowa home-boys out there what missed our gathering. We don’t know why you homebodies didn’t come and hang out and talk shop wit us, but we think you really truly missed out on our phat gathering. We had around 10 real homies show up to hear the jibber jabber about
Pyowa – September 2010 Wrap-Up Read More »
We had our August 2010 Pyowa meeting last night in Ames at the Ames Public Library. Seven people attended the meeting, most of whom were regulars. I think we had one new guy or maybe he’s only been to one. Anyway, Scott presented on SqlAlchemy. He walked us through the basics using a movies example
August Pyowa Meeting Wrapup Read More »
On Thursday, July 1st, we had our July Pyowa meeting. It was hosted by Matt Morrison at the IMT Group’s building in Des Moines, IA. We had our largest attendance ever with a total of 15 men showing up. Tavern Pizza and pop were served, which was also a first…we’ve had pop before, just not
Pyowa – July 2010 Wrapup Read More »
We had our June Pyowa meeting last night in Ames, IA. There were NINE people in attendance, which is pretty big for our group. I think we’ve only managed that number of people on only one other occasion. Thanks goes out to everyone who spread the word and invited their friends. At the meeting, I
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Last night, we had our May 2010 Pyowa meeting. It is the only Python Users Group in Iowa and we welcome anyone who is programming in Python (or interested in learning Python) to come and be a part of our group. At this meeting, we had three good presentations. The first was given by Jim
May 2010 Pyowa Wrap-up Read More »
It’s been a while since I wrote about Pyowa, the Iowa Python Users Group that I founded. Our first meeting was September 24th, 2008 and I had high hopes for the group. However, it hasn’t grown much at all in almost two years. For some reason, we have meetings scheduled through July of this year
Pyowa: The Iowa Python Users Group Read More »
We had out October Pyowa meeting last night and I thought it was very interesting. We had an executive from a local technology company called Priority5 come out and he told us how he got started with Python and how they use it at his current employer’s. We also had a talk on Optparse, ConfigParser
Pyowa – October 2009 Meeting Wrap-up Read More »