I decided it would be fun to give my latest book away for free until this Wednesday, Oct 19th. So starting today, you can get Python 201: Intermediate Python free through Gumroad or Leanpub. If you go with Gumroad, then you will need to use the following offer code: 201free. Note that if you want […]
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This week we welcome Glyph Lefkowitz (@glyph) as our PyDev of the Week! Glyph is the creator / maintainer of Twisted, an asynchronous event-driven networking engine. Glyph finds the time to write a blog that you might find quite interesting. You can also check out Github to see what projects he’s involved with. Let’s spend
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For the past couple of years, I’ve been writing automated tests for my employer. One of the many types of tests that I do is comparing how an application draws. Does it draw the same way every single time? If not, then we have a serious problem. An easy way to check that it draws
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This week we welcome Paul Logston (@PaulLogston) as our PyDev of the Week! Paul is the new maintainer for Pyvideo.org. He took over for Will Kahn-Greene. You can read more about the transition here. He is also an organizer for his local Python Users Group. You might want to take a few moments to check
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The Python Imaging Library or PIL allowed you to do image processing in Python. The original author, Fredrik Lundh, wrote one of my favorite Python blogs when I first started learning Python. However PIL’s last release was way back in 2009 and the blog also stopped getting updated. Fortunately, there were some other Python folks
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I think it’s very important for teens and college students to learn how to program. Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics is such a crucial set of topics to learn about that I have decided to give away copies of Python 101 and Python 201: Intermediate Python to teachers and professors starting today until 11:59 p.m.
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This week we welcome Bryan Van de Ven (@bigreddot) as our PyDev of the Week! Bryan is a core developer of the Bokeh project, which is a visualization package for Python. He has also helped with the development of Anaconda. You can check out what projects he is a part of on Github. Let’s take
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I am excited to announce that the wxPython Cookbook is now available for Pre-Order. You can get your digital copy on Gumroad or Leanpub now. You can get a sample of the book on Leanpub if you’d like to “try before you buy”. There will be over 50 recipes in this book. The examples in
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This week we welcome Katie McLaughlin (@glasnt) as our PyDev of the Week! She is a core developer of the BeeWare project. You should take a moment and check out her Github profile to see what fun projects she’s a part of. Katie also has a fun little website and was a speaker at PyCon
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This week we welcome Benedikt Eggers (@be_eggers) as our PyDev of the Week. Benedikt is one of the core developers working on the IronPython project. IronPython is the version of Python that is integrated with Microsoft’s .NET framework, much like Jython is integrated with Java. If you’re interesting in seeing what Benedikt has been up
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I’ve been toying with the idea of doing a hard cover version of my books for a long time so I thought I might try it out with the Cookbook. I went ahead and ran the numbers using my printer on demand resources and discovered that a regular hard cover isn’t crazy expensive. So I
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I recently started using twisted a couple of weeks ago. For those who don’t know, twisted is “event-driven networking engine written in Python”. The learning curve is pretty steep if you’ve never done asynchronous programming before. During the project I was working on, I ran into a condition where I thought I needed to restart
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I have decided to sponsor a contest for my second book, Python 201: Intermediate Python. I will be giving away 3 copies of my eBook bundle (PDF, EPUB and MOBI) and 2 copies of the paperback, which I will ship anywhere in the world. If you haven’t heard of my book, you may want to
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This week we welcome Rami Chowdhury (@necaris) as our PyDev of the Week! Rami is an active contributor to the Python community and an organization for the North American PyCon. If you’d like to see what he’s up to, you might want to check out his website which has links to the various open source
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I always spend some time thinking about how I want my book’s cover to look. When I was designing the Cookbook’s cover, I thought mostly about food and chefs. I had originally thought I might have some kind of kitchen scene with mice in chef hats and a snake on the mantle. But I wanted
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