The PyDev of the Week this week is Ben Rousch (@brousch). He is a contributor to the Kivy project. You should check out his blog here. You can also see Mr. Rousch give a talk about Kivy on Youtube. Let’s find out more about him!
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Yesterday, Philip Guo made the claim that Python is now the most popular introductory teaching language at top U.S. universities on the Communications of the ACM blog. I came across this information via Planet Python’s redistribution of Vasudev Ram’s blog post on the subject. If this is true, then I think this is really cool.
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Last year there was an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign in support of PyDev, the Python IDE plugin for Eclipse. It was put on by the primary developer of PyDev, Fabio Zadrozny. As a part of that campaign, Fabio also created LiClipse. Anyway, Fabio is at it again with a new crowdfunding campaign. You can read about
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If you’re like me, you missed PyCon North America 2014 this year. It happened last weekend. While the main conference days are over, the code sprints are still running. Anyway, for those of you who missed PyCon, they have released a bunch of videos on pyvideo! Every year, they seem to get the videos out
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I had heard about the Python Brochure Project last year but was under the impression that it was for corporations at that time as it seemed that you had to purchase them. It looked really good, but since I wasn’t a corporation and couldn’t buy them in bulk, I didn’t give it too much thought.
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The Python.org website is finally getting a much needed update and at PyCon 2013, they announced that you can now check out a preview of what it’s going to look like here: http://preview.python.org/ There’s a call for beta testers at the bottom of the website, so if you want to help Python, here’s a really
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The Python Software Foundation recently put out an announcement about a central Python events calendar. I thought that was really cool, so I’m reproducing their announcement here. Spread the word! ________________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCING Central Python Events Calendars maintained by the Python Software Foundation (PSF) and a group of volunteers ________________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION The PSF has put together
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Some teens from around the world decided to learn Python using Raspberry Pi to write a game during a sprint starting today and running through tomorrow. They are taking donations to give to the Raspberry Pi foundation too. You can follow their live stream if you want to. Raspberry Pi is an ARM GNU/Linux box
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I didn’t think I’d do one of these link roundups this week, but I decided to go for it anyway. In fact, I found a cool little tool for obtaining information about installed Python packages and querying packages available on PyPI (Python Package Index) called yolk too! Anyway, here’s this week’s reading list. I hope
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It’s the first Friday of June and I’ve read a bunch of new articles this week. From the Vern’s rant about getting Python jobs to a review of the web2py cookbook, there’s lots of fun things going on in Python land. Here are just a few other articles I thought were interesting: Batchelder talks about
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I haven’t done a weekly round-up of Python links because no one seemed to really care when I was doing those. However I thought I’d give it one more try and see if there was any interest this time around. This past week, I finished reading my first web2py cookbook. I’m told there’s another book
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I’m a little excited today as my first patch (and first ticket even!) has been accepted. And it really didn’t take very long either. Less than 24 hours after I had submitted my first patch, I got my contribution added. I did have to submit to more variations of the patch though as my first
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As I mentioned in my last article, I figured I’d try to find something that I could patch in Python and submit it. While writing the other article, I stumbled on a minor error in the Python devguide in the Windows section. While it’s nowhere near as cool to patch a piece of documentation as
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I was reading Hynek Schlawack’s excellent article on becoming a Python core developer and decided to find out just how hard it would be to get set up on my machine so that I could be ready to do core development myself, should I ever get the honor of being a part of the team.
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Everyone likes retrospective articles. I’m not sure why, but lists just pull people in. Last year, my top ten list was pretty popular, so this year I’m going to do it again. This year I hit 247,901 visits and 345,452 page views over the course of the year compared with 137,727 visits and 213,814 page
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