Wellington Python Meetup

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 04:12:39 EDT

New Zealand Python User Group

Wellington - New Zealand

Thursday, June 6 at 6:00 PM

Attending: 1

Details: http://www.meetup.com/nz-python-user-group/events/116947072/

Christchurch Python Meetup

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 06:34:49 EDT

New Zealand Python User Group

Ahoy Quakeschurch Pythonistas!

Two years and nearly 11 thousand quakes later we are back again with our monthly Christchurch Python meetups.

Until end of the year we can use room N211 in N Block of CPIT (off Madras St). We'll see where we'll go from there.

The idea is that every meetup we'll have one of us presenting a talk about whatever that relates in any way to Python programming language.

Talk of the evening for our first meetup held on September 7 2012 is either "Continuous deployment" or "Performance horror stories" presented by Robert Collins.

Chances are that Robert will cover both topics. If not we can have discussion about any of the proposed topics after his talk.

Doors open at 5pm, talk starts at 5:30pm.

After the talk and discussion we will continue at Black Betty ( http://blackbetty.co.... ) and/or any close enough pub.

Do not hesitate to pass this information around to whomever you think may be interested to hear and discuss all things Python.

I'll see you on Friday!

Yours,

Marek Kuziel

Christchurch - New Zealand

Friday, June 7 at 5:30 PM

Attending: 1

Details: http://www.meetup.com/nz-python-user-group/events/117056902/

Auckland Python Meetup

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:30:43 EDT

New Zealand Python User Group

The Auckland members of the New Zealand Python Users Group meet every month. You're very welcome to attend.

Who turns up?

We have a healthy mix of Python users. We are made up of (at least):

• students
• hobbyists
• GIS specialists
• engineers
• web programmers and
• scientists

Don't be put of by this list though! Many people attending are new to Python or only dabble in it.

Format

Meetings are very relaxed. We generally have a main presentation at the beginning and lots of warm discussion afterwards.

Beginner Programmer?

Great! We would love to see you. Let us know if there are any problems that you are having by asking in the comments below. We'll try to some help for you.

First time attending?

Newcomers are very welcome to attend. Finding the venue can be slightly hard though.

Parking

For parking information see here:
http://nzpug.org/Meet...

Auckland - New Zealand

Wednesday, June 19 at 6:30 PM

Attending: 3

Details: http://www.meetup.com/nz-python-user-group/events/118527112/

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Kiwi Pycon 2011 - The Magic of meta-programming

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 08:22:30 GMT

Learn the magic of writing Python code that monitors, alters and reacts to module imports, changes to variables, calls to functions and invocations of the builtins. Learn how to slide a class underneath a module to intercept reads/writes, place automatic type checking over your object attributes and use stack peeking to make selected attributes private to their owning class. We’ll cover import hacking, metaclasses, descriptors and decorators and how they work internally.

Code quality; patch quality

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:10:17 GMT

Code quality; patch quality, Malcolm Tredinnick. Python user for 13 years. Linux user for even longer. Malcolm has worked with a wide variety of systems from banking and stock exchange interfaces, to multi-thousand server database-backed websites. These days, Malcolm’s primary open source contributions are as a core developer for Django and advocate for Python. All Open Source projects welcome patches from people willing to help fix bugs or implement feature requests. That’s why we launch the source code into the wilds in the first place. If you are wanting to contribute, however, the process can seem a bit daunting, particularly when you are first starting out. Am I doing it properly? What will happen if I do it wrong? How can I do the best thing possible from the start? These are all typical worries. I’ve had them, others have had them and you’re not alone if they cross your mind. In this talk, we will go over a few basic ideas for producing patch submissions that make things as easy as possible both for yourself and the code maintainers. How to help the maintainers help you. Malcolm has been a core maintainer for Django for over give years and has seen a few good and bad contributions in his time. These are the harmless and useful lessons that can be drawn from that experience.

How to suck at developing a web app, when you’re not a web shop

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:04:41 GMT

How to suck at developing a web app, when you’re not a web shop. (Subtitled “Friends, contracts, and missed deadlines.”). Eric Light is managing director of Gravity Computing, a software development firm in Hamilton, who specialise in bringing efficiency to business processes with clever software design. He is an active member of the Waikato Chamber of Commerce, a member of the NZ Open Source Society, Associate Member of the New Zealand Computer Society, and is also Chairman of the branch committee of the Waikato branch of the NZCS. An overview of some of our most blatant failings when we attempted to develop a cloud-app through an external contractor, coming from a suitably-embarrassed business owner and ex law student.