Lightning Talks Day 3

Me + Web Apps

Ben

• medical student
• prototype ideas for medical web apps
• want fast dev, more magic, less code
• found django tutorial hard
• discovered Web2Py and PythonAnywhere
• almost no config
• web based IDE
• great docs
• MVC really is MVC
• built online notice board
• nothing I couldn’t do with Web2Py - what am I missing?

Speech to text transcription

Sheryll

• supporting deaf people
• special keyboard - vowels in the middle
• learn the keyboard, play it like a piano
• single keys become short words, press keys together to get single letter
• most vowels are single keys
• for the word “judge” - press 9 keys at the same time!
• can get words wrong - heard “whisky”, actually “wsgi” - can reconfigure keyboard for jargon in particular conference
• ask for info, jargon, terms in advance to get the names into the dictionary
• electronic shorthand - only about 100 wpm, these keyboards get to 250 wpm - can keep up with most people (but Russell ...!)

DjangoBeer

Iacopo

• there used to be a circus
• DjangoBeer happened in Florence in 2014, during EuroPython
• rebooted as monthly meeting, all things web
• code and beer thrive together - socialising people, community
• see you in Florence - last Tuesday of each month

Systers

Ana B

• orgs to help coders
• djangogirls, pyladies, rails girls, black girls code, she++ ...
• systers is part of the Anita Borg Institute
• community for women in STEM
• over 5500 members, in 60 countries
• founded in 1987, by Anita Borg, started as email list with 12 members
• http://systers.org - subscribe to email list
• aim to increase women in computer science and help make envionment more conducive

I wrote my first line of code 1 year ago

Geraint Palmer

• phd student
• feb 2014 - first line of VBA - for and if
• oct 2014 - grew up, discovered python
• taught python almost immediately - I learned it much better that way
• googled things
• found nice text editor (atom/sublime) and learned command line
• installed first library
• discovered pip
• pair programmed
• git, testing, docs
• python namibia
• django con europe!

Do I need to update my Django project

Mounir Messelmeni

• deadlines
• some versions not getting security updates
• Django now only support python 2.7+ - 2.6 has been dropped
• preparation - read release notes, new virtualenv, eg 1.8 dropped contrib.comment
• data backup!
• migration - south -> django migrations
• deprecated functions, any unavailable packages
• TESTS
• staging deploy ...
• python 3

pip install caniusepython3
caniusepython3 -r requirements.txt

The Missing Method Murder Mystery

Baptiste

• true story
• class with two methods

class Foo(object):
    def foo(self):
        return "foo"

    def bar(self):
        return "bar"

>>> f = Foo()
>>> f.foo()
'foo'
>>> f.bar()
method not found

bar was indented with tabs - python sees tab as 8 spaces, so bar is function inside foo!

• highlight the tabs
• start using python3 - will give error if tabs and spaces mixed

Sprinting

Russell Kieth-McGee

What is a sprint?

• people get together after conference to hack on code
• next 2 days are sprint

What needs to be done

• bug triage, replicate problems
• patches - write them
• patches - test it, code quality
• patches - add tests to patches
• tests!
• docs also required for new features
• docs - can also be improved
• docs - first draft is really helpful, working examples

What to work on?

• django core
• django libraries
• django project website
• django community resources
• pick an area that interests you
• scratch your own itch
• Ask a core dev!
• Ask the person next to you
• IRC #django-sprint
• docs.djangoproject.com - contributor guide - link at bottom of page

DjangoGirls also sprinting