Issue #112

SpaceX

April 25, 2014

SpaceX
Django Security Releases Issued, Kiwi PyCon 2014 and much more.

Issue #112: SpaceX

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News


Pylint 1.2 released!
New version of Pylint is out with new checks, bug fixes and Python 3.4 support. Time to get linting!
logilab.org
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

Kiwi PyCon 2014 Announced!
The conference will be held 13th and 14th of September in New Zealand!
pycon.org
Shared by @myusuf3
 

Django Security releases issued
The Django team has issued multiple security releases in Django 1.4.11, Django 1.5.6, Django 1.6.3 and Django 1.7 beta 2. Check out the details and get your apps up to date!
djangoproject.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

Discussion


How is Your 1M+ LOC Project Structured?
reddit.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

Jobs


Senior/Principal Software Engineer (Boston, MA) 
Posted By Jana Promoted
 
Software Engineer- Scalability (Boston, MA)
Posted By Aereo Promoted  

Principal Python Software Engineer (Chicago, IL)
Posted By Echo Global Logistics Promoted

Projects


IPython Notebook Themes
Awesome theme customization for IPython Notebooks!
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3
 

drf-extensions
A collection of custom extensions for Django REST Framework. Includes tools for caching, new mixins, new fields and serializers.
github.com
Shared by @MyNameIss
 

locust
A distributed load testing tool written in Python allows you to simply write your test scenarios in Python, then launch them from one or many distributed machines.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

goless
Interesting project here. Go programming language semantics built on top of Stackless Python or gevent.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

ipython-desktop
A proof of concept desktop interface for the iPython notebook.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

pylearn2
A machine learning library designed to make machine learning research easy.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

geofront
A SSH key management server. Allows you to manage and distribute keys across many machines.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

terminal-webcam
Cool little tool for displaying webcam video in your terminal!
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3
 

SoCo
Very cool project that allows you to control your Sonos speakers programatically with Python.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

click
A new command line interface library, most of you will be familiar with docopt. click is still waiting on release but extensive documentation is available.
pocoo.org
Shared by @myusuf3
 

Articles


Fully Automated OS X Provisioning With Ansible
Awesome article on provisioning OSX system with Ansible!
luminat.us
Shared by @myusuf3
 

When using eval isn't evil (or stupid)
Only a little about eval here, but a clever trick to test methods are invoked correctly to produce a useful error to the user, rather then a generic TypeError which also in this particular case notify the dev team incorrectly.
onefinestay.com
Shared by @szotten
 

Using Flask Cache
Flask does not have built-in cache functionality but this article will get you started with using the flask-cache plugin to provide Cache functionality for your Flask application.
brunorocha.org
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

Raspberry Pi as Private Git Server
Short and to the point tutorial to help you set up your Raspberry PI as a private Git server.
monkeyhacks.com
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

Flask by Example - Part 1
Simple tutorial on how to setup your Flask apps.
realpython.com
Shared by @myusuf3
 

Analyzing a NHL Playoff Game With Twitter
Very cool analysis of a NHL playoff game with Twitter data and Python tools. The author uses Panda's, iPython notebook and vincent to visualize the data.
danielforsyth.me
Shared by @mgrouchy
 

Understanding Gunicorn's Concurrency Model
Nice article touching the finer points of gunicorn's concurrency models.
volant.is
Shared by @myusuf3
 
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