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Damián Avila: Some thoughts about the 2017 ACM Software System Award for Project Jupyter

Link: http://www.damian.oquanta.info/posts/some-thoughts-about-the-2017-acm-software-system-award-for-project-jupyter.html





I am very happy to inform you that Project Jupyter has been awarded the 2017 ACM Software System Award!
As part of the Jupyter Steering Council, I am one of the official recipients of the award, b
PyCon.DE & PyData Karlsruhe: Fin Aid

Link: http://de.pycon.org/blog/fin-aid/

As part of our commitment to the Python community, we are pleased to announce that we offer special grants for people in need of a financial aid to attend PyCon.DE. Please follow the instructions belo
Mike Driscoll: Exporting Data from PDFs with Python

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/05/03/exporting-data-from-pdfs-with-python/

There are many times where you will want to extract data from a PDF and export it in a different format using Python. Unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of Python packages that do the extraction part v
Wallaroo Labs: Wallaroo: We’ve heard your feedback, here’s what’s coming

Link: https://blog.wallaroolabs.com/2018/05/wallaroo-weve-heard-your-feedback-heres-whats-coming/

Its been over a year since I wrote the first blog post introducing Wallaroo to the world. We’ve covered a lot of ground since then; from introducing the Python API that is our primary product, to rele
Talk Python to Me: #160 Lektor: Beautiful websites out of flat files

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/160/lektor-beautiful-websites-out-of-flat-files

What is the fastest, most scalable web platform? Is it Pyramid running on top of MongoDB with a Redis cache? Maybe Flask and Postgres as a service? Some funky Go API framework?
Stefan Scherfke: How to mask an image with a smooth circle in PyQt5

Link: https://stefan.sofa-rockers.org/2018/05/04/how-to-mask-an-image-with-a-smooth-circle-in-pyqt5/

I am currently working on a PyQt5 based user manager and want to display user
images as circle.
User image can have any size and aspect ratio, so I also need to crop them
before applying the mask:
Vasudev Ram: A Python version of the Linux watch command

Link: http://jugad2.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-python-version-of-linux-watch-command.html

By Vasudev RamWatcher image attribution: Yours trulyHi readers,[ Update: A note to those reading this post via Planet Python or other aggregators:Before first pulbishing it, I reviewed the post in Blo
Malthe Borch: Security questions as 2FA violate GDPR

Link: https://maltheborch.com/2018/05/security-questions-as-2fa-violate-gdpr.html


I have an on-going discussion with Kucoin, a cryptocurrency exchange, on the issue of whether I can remember security questions that I alledgedly have entered into their system such
Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (cxxiv) stackoverflow python report

Link: http://python-weekly.blogspot.com/2018/05/cxxiv-stackoverflow-python-report.html

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2018-05-05 17:33:24 GMTpython generators garbage collection - [23/2]Del
Nikola: Upgrading to Nikola v8

Link: https://getnikola.com/blog/upgrading-to-nikola-v8.html

Nikola v8 is a huge release with lots of new features and fixed bugs. However,
a few manual changes are required to upgrade.

Contents

How to upgrade
Upgrading post metadata
Changes to themes and tem
Nikola: Nikola v7.8.15 and v8.0.0b1 are out!

Link: https://getnikola.com/blog/nikola-v7815-and-v800b1-are-out.html

On behalf of the Nikola team, I am pleased to announce the immediate
availability of Nikola v7.8.15 and v8.0.0b1.
Nikola v7.8.15 is the last v7 maintenance release with a few more bug fixes.
Nikola v8
Roberto Alsina: Playing With Picolisp (Part 1)

Link: https://ralsina.me/weblog/posts/playing-with-picolisp-part-1.html

I want to learn new languages. But new as in "new to me", not new as in
"created last week". So I decided to play with the grandaddy of all cool
languages, LISP. Created in 1958, it's even older than
Techiediaries - Django: Angular 6|5 Tutorial (with RESTful Django Back-End)

Link: https://www.techiediaries.com/angular-tutorial/

Throughout this Angular 6 tutorial, we'll learn to build a web application with Angular 6, the latest version of Angular--the most popular framework/platform for building mobile and desktop client sid
Pete Hunt: Hello world!

Link: http://www.petehunt.net/hello-world/

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
Anwesha Das: Indian Government's new attempt to regulate "online content"

Link: http://anweshadas.in/indian-governments-new-attempt-to-regulate-online-content/

“Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not w
Patrick Kennedy: Testing a Flask Application using pytest

Link: http://www.patricksoftwareblog.com/testing-a-flask-application-using-pytest/

Introduction
I recently started using pytest and it is an incredible test framework for python! After reading Brian Okken’s book titled “Python Testing with pytest“, I was convinced that I wanted to