The Kickstarter for my latest book, Pillow: Image Processing with Python, was fully funded yesterday. I know it can be hard to decide if you want to buy a book without seeing it, so I am posting the first 3 chapters of the book for free. You can download them with this Dropbox link. This […]
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Matt Harrison asked me to take part in his latest course, Effective Book Authoring. This course will help you learn how to write a technical book. Matt interviewed me about how I approach book writing. (Note: I actually covered this in my article last year). The neat thing about this course is that Matt teaches
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I am happy to announce my latest book project, Pillow: Image Processing with Python. This book will teach you how to use Pillow, the “friendly” fork of the Python Imaging Library (PIL). You can purchase early access to the book on Kickstarter as well as get exclusive perks there such as T-shirts, signed copies of
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This week we welcome Froilán Irizarry Rivera (@froidotdev) as our PyDev of the Week! Froilán does code live streaming on Twitch. Froilán helped found Fullstack Knights which is a monthly meetup and more. You can also see what he is up to over on Github. Let’s spend some time getting to know Froilán better! Can
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I will be launching a new Kickstarter on Monday, January 4th to help launch my 9th book, Pillow: Image Processing with Python. In this book, you will learn how to edit photos with Python. You will discover how to extract metadata, crop, apply filters, resize and so much more! Here is the high-level table of
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This week we welcome Amanda Sopkin (@amandasopkin) as our PyDev of the Week! She enjoys writing, teaching and the hackathon community. Amanda has given several talks at various Python conferences as well. You can check out what she has been up to over on her website. Let’s take a few moments to learn more about
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This week we welcome Martijn Faassen (@faassen) as our PyDev of the Week! Martijn is the creator of the popular lxml package and the Morepath web framework, among others. You can see what else he is up to over on Github or check out his blog. Let’s take a few moments to get to know
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Packt Publishing will be selling all of their eBooks and videos for $5 from December 15th, 2020 through January 13th, 2021. If you would like to get some new Python books for a bargain price, this is a good time to do so. My book, Python Interviews, is included in the sale. Here are some
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In this video tutorial, you will learn about creating different shades of gray with ReportLab’s canvas object: Get my ReportLab book on Leanpub or Amazon. Or check out my other Python books. Related Articles There are lots of other articles on ReportLab on this site. Here are just a few: ReportLab 101 – Using the
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This week we welcome Benoît Bovy (@benbovy) as our PyDev of the Week! Benoît is a contributor to Xarray-related libraries like Xpublish and Xoak. You can see what else he is working on over on Github. Let’s spend some time getting to know Benoît better! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education,
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As the name implies, Day 4 is all about processing passports. You are given the following fields and you’ll have to do some verification steps using them: byr (Birth Year) iyr (Issue Year) eyr (Expiration Year) hgt (Height) hcl (Hair Color) ecl (Eye Color) pid (Passport ID) cid (Country ID) !!! SPOILERS AHEAD !!! You
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I came across an interesting Python Kickstarter recently called A Day in Code: Python – A picture book written in code. I personally don’t know the author or their work, but I really like the idea. I am also all about supporting independent content creators. You should go check out this Kickstarter and see if
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When I read the description for day 3 od the Advent of Code, I thought it was asking me to create some kind of pathfinding algorithm. The idea behind this challenge is to figure out how many trees you will hit while skiing down a grid. You should go check out the description so that
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This week we welcome Shauna Gordon-McKeon as our PyDev of the Week! Shauna runs her own consulting business, Galaxy Rise Consulting and is a Django enthusiast. She has also spoken at several Python conferences! If this interview isn’t enough for you, you can learn more about Shauna over on the Django Girls blog. Let’s spend
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Day 2 of Advent of Code 2020 is about validating passwords. It gives you a series of password policies and passwords and then asks you to determine how many of those passwords are valid. For this challenge, I opted to use no Python libraries and just do text parsing. !!! SPOILERS AHEAD !!! You should
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