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Djangostars: How to build your own blockchain for a financial product

Link: https://djangostars.com/blog/how-to-build-your-own-blockchain-for-a-financial-product/


Technologies are changing fast; people are not. – Jakob Nielsen

Blockchain is a relatively new technology that many deem is used only for buying Bitcoins. They try to implement it in whatever sphere
Ned Batchelder: SQLite data storage for coverage.py

Link: https://nedbatchelder.com//blog/201808/sqlite_data_storage_for_coveragepy.html

I’m starting to make some progress on Who Tests What.
The first task is to change how coverage.py records the data it collects
during execution. Currently, all of the data is held in memory,
Python Engineering at Microsoft: Python in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8

Link: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/2018/08/14/python-in-visual-studio-2017-version-15-8/

We have released the 15.8 update to Visual Studio 2017. You will see a notification in Visual Studio within the next few days, or you can download the new installer from visualstudio.com.
In this post
Spyder IDE: Spyder 3.3.0 and 3.3.1 released!

Link: https://www.spyder-ide.org/blog/release-spyder-330/

We're pleased to release the next significant update in the stable Spyder 3 line, 3.3.0, along with its follow-on bugfix point release, 3.3.1, which is now live on PyPI and conda.
As always, you can u
Mike Driscoll: Book Contest: ReportLab: PDF Processing with Python

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/08/14/book-contest-reportlab-pdf-processing-with-python/

I recently released a new book entitled ReportLab: PDF Processing with Python. In celebration of a successful launch, I have decided to do a little contest.

Rules

Post a comment telling me why you w
Vasudev Ram: pyperclip, a cool Python clipboard module

Link: http://jugad2.blogspot.com/2018/08/pyperclip-cool-python-clipboard-module.html

By Vasudev RamI recently came across this neat Python library, pyperclip, while browsing the net. It provides programmatic copy-and-paste functionality. It's by Al Sweigart.pyperclip is very easy to u
Mike Driscoll: Face Detection Using Python and OpenCV

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/08/15/face-detection-using-python-and-opencv/

Machine Learning, artificial intelligence and face recognition are big topics right now. So I thought it would be fun to see how easy it is to use Python to detect faces in photos. This article will f
Codementor: Taming Snakes inside a Container

Link: https://www.codementor.io/apcelent/taming-snakes-inside-a-container-mfadetk24

In this post, let's talk about taming snakes inside a container. The article is a summary of lessons learned while dockerizing python microservices. In case you want to see a detailed...
Import Python: ImportPython - Issue 182

Link: http://importpython.com/blog/post/importpython-issue-182





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Continuous Delivery of Microservices - Parts 1 to 5
Real Python: The Ultimate Guide to Django Redirects

Link: https://realpython.com/django-redirects/

When you build a Python web application with the Django framework, you’ll at some point have to redirect the user from one URL to another.
In this guide, you’ll learn everything you need to know about
Continuum Analytics Blog: Introducing Skein: Deploy Python on Apache YARN the Easy Way

Link: https://www.anaconda.com/blog/developer-blog/introducing-skein-deploy-python-on-apache-yarn-the-easy-way/

By Jim Crist *This post is reprinted with permission from Jim Crist’s blog. The original post can be found here.In this post, I introduce Skein, a new tool and library for deploying applications on Ap
Peter Bengtsson: django-pipeline and Zopfli

Link: https://www.peterbe.com/plog/ZopfliPipelineCachedStorage

tl;dr; I wrote my own extension to django-pipeline that uses Zopfli to create .gz files from static assets collected in Django. Here's the code.
Nginx and Gzip
What I wanted was to continue to use dja
James Bennett: For hire

Link: https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2018/apr/11/hire/

Update: I am (as of August 2018) once again gainfully employed.
Since a slightly-wider circle of people know this now, it’s time to just go public with the news: my last day at now-former employer was
Bhishan Bhandari: Google APIs and Python – Part II

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheTaraNights/~3/w0vHL3DhM6o/

Google services are cool and you can build products and services around it. We will see through examples how you can use various google services such as spreadsheet, slides and drive through Python. I
Talk Python to Me: #174 Coming into Python from another Industry (part 2)

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/174/coming-into-python-from-another-industry-part-2

Not everyone comes to software development and Python through 4-year computer science programs at universities. This episode highlights one alternative journey into Python.