Lightning Talks

geek girls carrots

• 11 cities, 4 special meetings, 1 sprint, 5 kinds of workshops
• using facebook
• promote women in new tech
• educate women in programming etc
• workshop - 10 mentors, 23 participants
• competitions
• why django - community in Warsaw

Don’t be afraid to commit

http://dont-be-afraid-to-commit.rtfd.com

• People have great ideas
• but often don’t work efficiently, lack expertise and/or confidence
• workspace set up -> virtualenv
• code -> version control
• “needs test and docs” -> learn
• confidence -> having a way in

so come to workshop at start of the sprints - 11am Saturday

Elasticsearch

• full text search, optional structured
• faceting
• percolator - akin to a trigger, if document added matches stored query, trigger action

stop writing settings files

• @brutasse
• https://speakerdeck.com/brutasse/stop-writing-settings-files
• local_settings - can be limiting
• multiple settings file import from base_settings.py (or settings/base.py) and use ./manage.py –settings=settings/staging.py
• 12factor.net - no settings in code
• derive settings from environment variables - 13 settings
• daemontools envdir - help manage env variables in development environment - files in version control with env settings
• envdir in your manage.py also possible

Teaching 2.0

now

• pdf

next

• use github, text etc in .rst files
• students have added pull requests

big idea

• see students as partners in collaborative engagement
• learning from each other
• like open source!

Configuring Python environments with Puppet

test pycharm on different environments

https://github.com/traff/python.pp