EuroPython: EuroPython 2019: CFP ends on May 12

Link: https://blog.europython.eu/post/184755401327

We would like to remind you that the Call for Proposals closes this coming Sunday:EuroPython 2019 CFP ends on May 12 23:59:59 CESTPlease submit your proposal via our website:https://ep2019.europython.

PyCharm: Webinar: “42 PyCharm Tips and Tricks” with Paul Everitt

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Pycharm/~3/vKzeh9kxvms/

PyCharm brings a boatload of IDE features to professional Python development. Want to “level up” and learn productivity boosters? This hands-on, fast-paced webinar, run by Paul Everitt from the PyChar

Evennia: Podcast about Evennia

Link: http://evennia.blogspot.com/2019/05/podcast-about-evennia.html

I was interviewed on the (pretty grandiosely named) podcast Titans of Text the other day. In the interview, which are run by people from the MUD Coder's Guild (a great initiative!), I talk a bit about

Stack Abuse: Test Driven Development with pytest

Link: https://stackabuse.com/test-driven-development-with-pytest/

Introduction
Good software is tested software. Testing our code can help us catch bugs or unwanted behavior.
Test Driven Development (TDD) is a software development practice that requires us to increm

Reinout van Rees: Djangocon: survival tricks and tools for remote developers - Alessio Bragadini

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2018/05/25/03-remote-developers.html


(One of my summaries of a talk at the
2018 European djangocon.)
He works in a company that has many remote workers. He is one of them. The
core question for him: "how do I manage to work remotely in

Reinout van Rees: Djangocon: Graphql in python and django - Patrick Arminio

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2018/05/25/04-graphql.html


(One of my summaries of a talk at the
2018 European djangocon.)
For APIs, REST is the normal way. But REST is not perfect.
You can, for instance, have too many requests. If you request a user
(/users

Reinout van Rees: Ansible provision/deploy setup

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2018/05/31/ansible-provision-deploy.html


I never got around to write down the ansible setup I figured out (together
with others, of course, at my previous job) for deploying/provisioning django
websites.
The whole setup (as a cookiecutter
t

Reinout van Rees: Plain text pypi description formatting: possible cause

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2018/07/04/pypi-description.html


Sometimes projects have a plaintext description on pypi.org. You see the
restructuredtext formatting, but it isn't applied. See my own
z3c.dependencychecker 2.4.2 for example.
I use an editor with re

Reinout van Rees: Utrecht (NL) python meetup september 2018

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2018/09/26/python-meetup-utrecht.html



Data processing using parser combinators - Werner de Groot
He collaborated with data scientists from Wageningen University. The
scientists did lots of cool programming stuff. But they did not use ve

Reinout van Rees: Amsterdam Python meetup, november 2018

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2018/11/30/amsterdam-python-meetup.html


My summary of the 28 november python meetup at the Byte office. I myself also gave a talk (about
cookiecutter) but I obviously
haven't made a summary of that. I'll try to summarize that one later :-)

Reinout van Rees: Write drunk, test automated: documentation quality assurance - Sven Strack

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2018/12/03/write-the-docs.html


This is my summary of the write the docs meetup in
Amsterdam at the Adyen office, november 2018.
Sven's experience is mostly in open source projects (mainly Plone, a python
CMS). He's also involved i

Reinout van Rees: Quiet down 'faker' in pytests

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2019/03/26/quiet-faker-pytest.html


Faker is a nice library for creating sample
data for tests. No more company called "example company" and no more email
address "something@example.org". No, you get readable random proper email
addres

Reinout van Rees: Summaries of the Python meetup in Amsterdam

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2019/04/11/python-meetup-2019.html


I've made notes again at the 2019-04-11 Amsterdam Python meetup in the byte office. Here are the summaries.

Ethics in IT - Nick Groenen
Computer systems are taking over the world. They're influencin

Reinout van Rees: Pygrunn preparations

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2019/05/09/pygrunn-preparation.html


Tomorrow (friday 2019-05-10), I'm going to the nice one-day Dutch python (and
friends) pygrunn conference in Groningen (NL)
again. Sold out, as usual. And rightfully so.
Anyway, to be honest, this bl

Mike Driscoll: An Intro to StaticBox and StaticBoxSizers

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2019/05/09/an-intro-to-staticbox-and-staticboxsizers/

There are many widgets that are included with the wxPython GUI toolkit. One of them is a fairly handy widget called wx.StaticBox. This widget accepts a string and then will draw a box with the string

Reinout van Rees: PyGrunn: monitoring and profiling Flask apps - Patrick Vogel & Bogdan Petre

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2019/05/10/1-monitoring-profiling-flask.html


(One of my summaries of a talk at the
2019 PyGrunn conference).
Patrick and Bogdan are students at Groningen University and they made the
Flask Monitoring Dashboard. Some questions you
might be inter

Reinout van Rees: PyGrunn: a day has only 24 ± 1 hours - Miroslav Šedivý

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2019/05/10/2-timezones.html


(One of my summaries of a talk at the
2019 PyGrunn conference).
Time zones... If you do datatime.datetime.now() you'll get a date+time
without timezone information. You can get different results on y

Reinout van Rees: PyGrunn: testing your infrastructure code - Ruben Homs

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2019/05/10/3-testing-infrastructure-code.html


(One of my summaries of a talk at the
2019 PyGrunn conference).
Servers used to be managed by proper wizards. But even wizards can be killed
by a balrog. So... what happens when your sysadmin leaves?

Reinout van Rees: PyGrunn: lessons from using GraphQL in production - Niek Hoekstra & Jean-Paul van Oosten

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2019/05/10/4-graphql.html


(One of my summaries of a talk at the
2019 PyGrunn conference).
GraphQL is a different way to create APIs. So: differently from REST. You
describe what you want to recieve back, instead of having a f

Reinout van Rees: PyGrunn: embedding the python interpreter - Mark Boer

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2019/05/10/5-embedding-python-interpreter.html


(One of my summaries of a talk at the
2019 PyGrunn conference).
Writing scripts inside applications is often hard. Some of them luckily have
an embedded version of python, but not all of them.
Two im