[python-uk] Python/Django meet

2012-12-12 Thread Sally Hall
Good afternoon all, It was great to attend the Python/Django meet and to meet so many knowledgeable people. I just wanted to say thank you for the welcome - I hope we weren't too "recruitmenty"! It also looks like we were able to network a few of our clients with some of the attendees there, s

[python-uk] West Yorks. Python Group - Thurs. 13 December - Leeds

2012-12-12 Thread Peter Russell
== West Yorkshire Python User Group Meeting - Thurs. 13 December == = Talk: Simon Davy, Unit testing Django = Django includes a test framework that is very convenient and widely used. It includes test database set up, fixtures, and a convenient way of calling your via Django's framework. However

Re: [python-uk] hexagonal Django

2012-12-12 Thread Chris Withers
Yeah, what he said :-) (joking aside, John has summed this all up very nicely...) Chris On 06/12/2012 00:57, John Lee wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Jonathan Hartley wrote: The last few weeks I've been thinking about the architectural pattern known as Clean, Onion, Hexagonal, or Ports'n'Adaptors

Re: [python-uk] hexagonal Django

2012-12-12 Thread Chris Withers
On 05/12/2012 14:13, Jonathan Hartley wrote: I guess you still need to provide an abstraction for these features, even if only one backend supports the abstraction. What I'm reading suggests that if, for example, your app needs to use a text indexing service, then that's an external system and y

Re: [python-uk] Python Developers - ReportLab, Wimbledon, London

2012-12-12 Thread Richard Barran
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