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PyBites: Career Development for Programmers

Link: https://pybit.es/career-development-programmers.html

What makes you excel in your career? Become an expert in x, y, z. Sure, you need to learn technical skills, quite a lot of them. However there is a lot more to it. If you want to succeed in your job,
EuroPython: EuroPython 2019: Seeking venues

Link: https://blog.europython.eu/post/178407491437

Dear EuroPython’istas,We are in preparations of our venue RFP for the EuroPython 2019 edition and are asking for your help in finding the right locations for us to choose from.If you know of a larger
EuroPython Society: EuroPython 2019: Seeking venues

Link: https://www.europython-society.org/post/178407505360

Dear EuroPython’istas,We are in preparations of our venue RFP for the EuroPython 2019 edition and are asking for your help in finding the right locations for us to choose from.If you know of a larger
PyBites: Code Challenge 51 - Analyse NBA Data with SQL/sqlite3 - Review

Link: https://pybit.es/codechallenge51_review.html

In this article we review last week's Analyse NBA Data with SQL/sqlite3 code challenge.
Our solution
Check out our solution for this challenge.
Some learnings:


Use cursor.executemany to bulk insert
PyBites: Code Challenge 52 - Create your own Pomodoro Timer

Link: https://pybit.es/codechallenge52.html


It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. - A. Einstein

Hey Pythonistas,
It's TIME for another Code Challenge! (Pun totally intended!)
We're keeping it simple this week
Real Python: Python Community Interview With Mahdi Yusuf

Link: https://realpython.com/interview-mahdi-yusuf/

Today I’m joined by Mahdi Yusuf, one of the founders of Pycoder’s Weekly.
By day he’s the CTO of Gyroscope, the OS for the human body. By night, he’s a sports and movie fan with a controversial opini
Codementor: Concurrency and Parallelism

Link: https://www.codementor.io/bjoernstiel/concurrency-and-parallelism-noxp2efl5

This post was originally published on Distributed Python (https://www.distributedpython.com/) on September 14th, 2018.
Concurrency is often misunderstood and mistaken for parallelism. However,...
pgcli: Release v1.11.0

Link: http://pgcli.com/v1.11.0.html

Pgcli is a command line interface for Postgres database that does
auto-completion and syntax highlighting. You can install this version using:

$ pip install -U pgcli

A very small release this time,
Mike Driscoll: Creating Presentations with Jupyter Notebook

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/09/25/creating-presentations-with-jupyter-notebook/

Jupyter Notebook can be turned into a slide presentation that is kind of like using Microsoft Powerpoint, except that you can run the slide’s code live! It’s really neat how well it works. The only co
Python Celery - Weekly Celery Tutorials and How-tos: Parallel Monte Carlo with Dask

Link: https://www.distributedpython.com/2018/09/25/dask-delayed/

Today, we will look at how to implement a Monte Carlo simulation
to value an Asian option in a Jupyter notebook; and how to distribute that Monte Carlo
simluation across a cluster using Dask. Don’t wo
Ned Batchelder: Me on Talk Python To Me

Link: https://nedbatchelder.com//blog/201809/me_on_talk_python_to_me.html

I was the guest on the most recent episode of the Talk Python To Me podcast:
#178: Coverage.py.
It was a really fun conversation. I liked at one point being able to say,
“I’ll answer the
Wingware Blog: Developing and Debugging Python Code Running on Vagrant Containers

Link: https://wingware.com/blog/vagrant

Learn how to use Wing Pro to develop, test, and debug Python Code running in Vagrant containers.
Python Software Foundation: CPython Core Developer Sprint 2018

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PythonSoftwareFoundationNews/~3/tfe6mjqYzYE/cpython-core-developer-sprint-2018.html

This September, twenty-nine core committers arrived at Microsoft’s main campus in Redmond, Washington, USA for the now-annual core developer sprints. These are an opportunity for the core team to have
Stack Abuse: Daily Coding Problem: Programming Puzzles to your Inbox

Link: https://stackabuse.com/daily-coding-problem-practice-programming-puzzles-to-your-inbox/

Like just about any other profession, the key to becoming a great programmer is to practice. Practicing often and consistently is an amazing way, and arguably the best way, to challenge yourself and i
Python Anywhere: The PythonAnywhere newsletter, September 2018

Link: https://blog.pythonanywhere.com/168/

Well, our last "monthly" newsletter was in September 2017. We must have shifted the bits in the period left one, or something like that :-)
Anyway, welcome to the September 2018 PythonAnywhere newsle
Roberto Alsina: Quick Nikola Feature: document APIs using pdoc

Link: https://ralsina.me/weblog/posts/quick-nikola-feature-document-apis-using-pdoc.html

A user asked in the nikola-discuss if there was a way to use Nikola to document APIs.
Well, there wasn't and now there is. I took pdoc and
wrote a wrapper as a plugin for Nikola.
And now you can just
Dataquest: Understanding Regression Error Metrics

Link: https://www.dataquest.io/blog/understanding-regression-error-metrics/

Human brains are built to recognize patterns in the world around us. For example, we observe that if we practice our programming everyday, our related skills grow. But how do we precisely describe thi