…biggest new feature for Python, X-Ray Sessions, rolled out just after PyCon. To get the next level of performance insight, simply run an X-Ray Session on a Key Transaction . Immediately the agent will begin to collect up to 100 Transaction Traces and a thread profiler report that aggregates across all your hosts. The X-Ray Session will show you the performance of that Key Transaction at the most detailed level possible. You can leave it running in the background and be confident …
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- Heroku: Polyglot Platform
- DevChix: PyArkansas: Small town, big tech!
- oldmoe: Computing In The Cloud, Google App Engines
- jimmy.thinking: MIX10, Part 2.2 - Client-side web-development with dynamic languages
- Zen and the Art of Programming: Free Python screencast about solving mazes
In his keynote at PyCon, Eben Upton, the Executive Director of the Rasberry Pi Foundation, mentioned that not only has Minecraft been ported to the Rasberry Pi, but you can even control it with Python . Since four of my kids are avid Minecraft fans, I figured this might be a good time to teach them to program using Python. So I started yesterday with the goal of programming something cool for Minecraft and then showing it off at the San Francisco Python Meetup in the evening.
- Zerosum Dirt(nap): LOLCODE
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- Global Nerdy: Developer Roundup: Penny Arcade's Glowing Review of the Surface Pro, New Releases of Ruby, Rails and CoffeeScript, and the Best
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In Guido van Rossum's PyCon 2013 keynote, he presents "a new, interoperable approach to asynchronous I/O that is being developed for inclusion in Python 3.4." Part of his proposal is a way to use "yield from" in a manner similar to await in C#. Let's just say, I'm super excited about it!
- Topics: Python
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- New Relic: Wrap Up of PyCon 2013
- DevChix: PyCon 2010 talk proposal deadline: Oct 1st
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- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Everybody Codes
…Perhaps they will come from programs like Let's Learn Python at this years PyCon or through intensive focus courses like those offered by gSchool , or perhaps from general education courses. Wherever the next generation of programmers comes from, we want to set them up to succeed.
Heroku has always had a free tier which is perfect for prototyping and learning. Putting the right tools in a student's hands can empower them to succeed. If you are picking …
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Diversity made PyCon all the more awesome. It was great meeting and catching up with all of our friends from various cultures and from PyLadies , the Ada Initiative and Hackbright Academy .
The New Relic Presence
As a Platinum sponsor, we were already happily heavily invested in PyCon but we doubled down and went all out: seven New Relicans attending, an expo booth, two talks, a sponsor tutorial, a party, and participation in the PyCon 5k!
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- oldmoe: Computing In The Cloud, Google App Engines
Taken from Brainstorming: Writing a PyCon Proposal . While this post is for PyCon, the US-based conference for Python developers, users, educators, and everyone with an interest in Python, this advice can apply to any language-centric conferences , even the topic suggestions themselves.
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Hey you! Ever thought about submitting a proposal?
What? oh no, no no no.
Why not?
What would I talk about? I have nothing to say!
So how about this:
Tell me what talks you …
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I just got back from PyCon, and as with all conferences where the talks are delivered by engineers instead of professional speakers, we had a mixed bag. Some talks were great; others made me get my laptop out .
The most important important axiom is: a talk is not just an essay without random access. It's a different medium. Respect its strengths instead of wishing it were something it's not.
Here are some concrete principles that can help:
Don't read your slides
- High Scalability: Hot Scalability Links for February 24, 2010
- Mike Perham: Cassandra Internals - Writing
- codahale.com: You Can't Sacrifice Partition Tolerance
- AkitaOnRails.com - English: [RailsConf 2010] - Video Interviews - Part 1
- Axon Flux // A Ruby on Rails Blog: What if Foursquare wasn't using MongoDB and was using something else?
- Ruby News: Red Dirt RubyConf 2010
The Python community's annual convention, PyCon, is this weekend and Opscode is excited to be participating in a number of events.
Friday evening Opscode is sponsoring the Chef BoF ( Birds of a Feather) . This is a gathering of Pythonistas that are interested in, or currently using Chef to manage their infrastructures. Members from the Opscode team, as well as experienced community members, will be on hand to share their experiences and best practices with attendees.
- Brainspl.at: 4 years at Engine Yard, what a long strange trip it's been.
- till's blog: Automating with Chef(-Solo)
- AkitaOnRails.com - English: What happened to Rails Summit Latin America?
- High Scalability: Hot Scalability Links for July 2, 2010
His Pycon 2010 talk had caught my eye and we spoke about the advantages of an early stage web startup in which everybody codes, including so-called "business people".
In our context, "coding" might mean activities like:
Adding Javscript snippets for analytics tools to the app.
Writing SQL queries on a read-only database.
Writing HTML and CSS to change a layout a customer found confusing.
Committing to version control.
Deploying to staging.
I …
Python in the browser : my blog post from PyCon 2010 about IronPython in Silverlight
Ruby in the browser : my article in RubyInside about IronRuby in Silverlight
Silverlight.net / d ynamic languages : tons of info on getting started with Python, Ruby, and the DLR in Silverlight.
Next up, using dynamic languages in your existing web-applications ( coming soon ).
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