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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My second book, Python 201: Intermediate Python (ISBN: 978-0-9960628-3-1), is now finished and officially published. You can check it out at the following locations: You can get a paperback copy through Lulu It is available as a PDF, mobi and epub via Gumroad and Leanpub Amazon Kindle The paperback will become available on Amazon and
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This week we welcome Reinout van Rees (@reinoutvanrees) as our PyDev of the Week! Reinout is the creator / maintainer of zest.releaser. He has a nice website that includes a Python blog that you might want to check out. I would also recommend checking his Github page to see what projects he’s a part of.
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My newest book will be my own home brewed version of a wxPython Cookbook. If you’re interested in learning more about it, then please check out the Kickstarter campaign. The brief synopsis is that it will have a little over 50 recipes in the book and around 300 pages of content. To help you make
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This week we welcome Damien George as our PyDev of the Week! Damien is the man behind the MicroPython project which allows you to run a version of Python on microcontrollers. You can learn more about Damien on his website or by visiting his Github page. Let’s spend some time getting to know our fellow
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My second book, Python 201: Intermediate Python is releasing two weeks from today on September 6th, 2016. I just wanted to remind anyone who is interested that you can pre-order a signed paperback copy of the book here right up until release day. You will also receive a copy of the book in the following
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Several years ago, the readers of this blog asked me to take some of my articles and turn them into a cookbook on wxPython. I have finally decided to do just that. I am including over 50 recipes that I am currently editing to make them more consistent and updating them to be compatible with
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This week we welcome Michele Simionato as our PyDev of the Week! Michele is an expert on Python and is known for his paper on Python’s Method Resolution Order which was published to the Python website by Guide Van Rossum and for a very interesting series of articles on metaclasses that he wrote with David
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