Re: [python-uk] Tumbleweed badge

2017-10-30 Thread Hansel Dunlop
the JSON paths manually if you're finding it's not > suitable. > > Hope that helps... > > James > > On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 at 05:43 Hansel Dunlop > wrote: > >> Thank you Kuba! That's interesting. Good to know it's possible . If not, >> perhap

Re: [python-uk] Tumbleweed badge

2017-10-26 Thread Hansel Dunlop
ithout modifying any view or serializer code. I have a custom TranslatedField that achieves these goals, quite simply. And it's good to know I can make further optimisations to it should I need to. On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 12:03 AM, Kuba wrote: > Hi Hansel, > > > On 26 October 201

[python-uk] Tumbleweed badge

2017-10-26 Thread Hansel Dunlop
Hi all, So I just got a notification from Stackoverflow that this question - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46804936/custom-django-field-type-with-modified-column-look-up-in-select-part - was just awarded the tumbleweed badge (no, votes, no answers, and no views)... So throwing this open to

Re: [python-uk] Burning desire to watch cataract surgery?

2017-10-13 Thread Hansel Dunlop
He's getting to the heart of the matter On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 2:30 PM, Richard Barran wrote: > I see what you did there... > > On 13 Oct 2017, at 15:21, Adam Johnson wrote: > > Sounds cutting edge! > > On 13 October 2017 at 14:05, Hansel Dunlop > wrote: > >

[python-uk] Burning desire to watch cataract surgery?

2017-10-13 Thread Hansel Dunlop
click the link and have a look <https://www.touchsurgery.com/jobs.html>. Hopefully catch up with everyone at Pycon UK. And do click those links! Much love! *Hansel Dunlop* Head of Platform <http://bit.ly/1N31p0A> Download the app <https://app.adjust.com/5nvgai>

Re: [python-uk] Handling large file uploads

2017-04-11 Thread Hansel Dunlop
ears some similarity to peer to peer file sharing software. I would > look there for ideas in case I got stuck with some problem. > > J > > > -- > *From*: "Hansel Dunlop" > *Sent*: 11 April 2017 11:22 > *To*: "UK Python Users"

[python-uk] Handling large file uploads

2017-04-11 Thread Hansel Dunlop
Hello all I'm working on an application that has to accept large uploads. Think ~ 2GB+ size files getting uploaded over slowish connections. These files are eventually going to end up in S3. Uploading smallish files is not a problem. But things get a bit complicated when you're dealing with large

[python-uk] Thanks all

2017-02-10 Thread Hansel Dunlop
Hello Thanks for everyone's help with the job search last month. I can happily report that I found a new work home because of it. I talked to lots of companies but one really stood out as being a fantastic idea with a really nice team behind it. Sten and Stuart from Tego Cover

Re: [python-uk] Python services within existing .Net infrastructure

2017-01-31 Thread Hansel Dunlop
It should be possible to have your Python app/s in docker containers (which can be run anywhere via VirtualBox or natively where available) and also run your windows Dev VMs via VirtualBox. Then this setup can be replicated across Mac/Linux/Win. That's your Dev environment. Then in production you h

Re: [python-uk] Looking for new work buddies

2017-01-15 Thread Hansel Dunlop
ut.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/ > Opening.aspx?v=2c25f6de-fa67-481c-a82b-01937dd01d18%20 > > Fwiw I and several others here came from YPlan which was acquired at the > end of last year. Our frontend is React and swishy: https://yplanapp.com/ > . I hear this might tempt some frontenders. &

[python-uk] Looking for new work buddies

2017-01-13 Thread Hansel Dunlop
Hello Python friends! The company I work for has had its most recent funding round delayed. So they’ve had to cut costs. The upshot of which is that there are a bunch of us who are looking for work. I've really enjoyed working with them and wouldn't mind keeping the gang together. Anyone out ther

Re: [python-uk] Announcing the Yorkshire Inquisition

2016-12-07 Thread Hansel Dunlop
It could certainly be violated by embodying his behaviour ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ h On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Daniel Pope wrote: > Idle thought: can the code of conduct be violated by accurately quoting > Time Person-of-the-Year Donald Trump? > > > On Wed, 7 Dec 2016, 13:21 Andy Robinson, wrote: > >>

Re: [python-uk] job postings to this list

2016-09-01 Thread Hansel Dunlop
The rule that I believe we arrived at, through some wonderfully nebulous consensus, was that occasional job postings from community members that could name the ACTUAL company were okay. I mean I would have never found my first Python job without those posts being allowed... (thanks PythonAnywhere)

Re: [python-uk] Coding "Bootcamps"

2016-05-18 Thread Hansel Dunlop
As someone who has been recruiting junior developers this year. I can say that the boot camps don't do much to differentiate you from the pack. There is also a very large number of people coming out of them meeting a much smaller amount of actual demand for people at that stage of their career. And

[python-uk] Thinking about sponsoring EuroPython in Bilbao? You still have a little time...

2015-06-02 Thread Hansel Dunlop
Hi all! If you, or your company, is thinking about sponsoring EuroPython in Bilbao this year - it's not too late! The list of sessions has been announced and there are more than 200 . We're particularly

Re: [python-uk] Library advice + anyone built a real time bidder?

2015-03-27 Thread Hansel Dunlop
03/2015 10:47, Hansel Dunlop wrote: > > Happy Friday Python People! (yes, you're happy, because it's Friday) > > > > Two questions for you: > > > > 1. I'm releasing a library. That I wrote in 2.7. But I want it to make it > > compatible with 2.7+.

[python-uk] Library advice + anyone built a real time bidder?

2015-03-27 Thread Hansel Dunlop
Happy Friday Python People! (yes, you're happy, because it's Friday) Two questions for you: 1. I'm releasing a library. That I wrote in 2.7. But I want it to make it compatible with 2.7+. What's the best approach for this? Especially when a bit of code for 2.7 is a SyntaxError in 3+

Re: [python-uk] Travelling to EuroPython 2015 by boat?

2015-03-23 Thread Hansel Dunlop
Seasickness and cocktails, sounds lovely. On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:47 PM, David Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 02:45:38PM +, Andy Robinson wrote: > > > Are you motivated by cost, adventure, or something else? > > > > Maybe 20 uninterrupted hours to sort out some slides? ;-) > > My

[python-uk] EuroPython 2015 - Site launch, early bird tickets available, and thanks to our Launch Sponsors

2015-03-05 Thread Hansel Dunlop
Hi All! On behalf of the whole team I thought I would post this announcement to the UK mailing list. We are pleased to announce the launch of the all new EuroPython 2015 website. Over the last few weeks, we have been very busy setting up the infrastructure, talking to sponsors, and the site prep

Re: [python-uk] Job Ad: Senior Python Engineers -Skimlinks - London

2015-02-04 Thread Hansel Dunlop
See! Why would anyone want to remove this reply-to goodness. It's a bug we've all become to rely on. On 4 Feb 2015 21:03, "Steve Holden" wrote: > We can take it you are self-employed, then? ;-) > > S > > On Feb 4, 2015, at 2:40 PM, Stestagg wrote: > > Hi Tom > > I'm currently looking for work, a

[python-uk] Looking for a work mate

2015-01-29 Thread Hansel Dunlop
Hello! I'm in the process of trying to find someone to work with me (past colleagues will know this is obviously a difficult task) at MediaGamma. If anyone on this list is looking at the moment they can find more information here: http://www.techcityjobs.co.uk/company/mediagamma/job/software-engin

[python-uk] Fwd: [EuroPython-Members] EuroPython 2015: Your chance to sign up as a launch sponsor

2015-01-16 Thread Hansel Dunlop
e it from there. You can see the forwarded email below or read the full announcement on the blog here: http://blog.europython.eu/post/108247660317/europython-2015-your-chance-to-sign-up-as-a . Cheers Hansel Dunlop -- Forwarded message -- From: M.-A. Lemburg Date: Fri, Jan 16, 2

Re: [python-uk] hexagonal Django

2014-08-15 Thread Hansel Dunlop
You know, if you started writing a stand alone module called pythonanywhere that has no dependencies and was imported and used by Django, Tornado, and any of the other bits and pieces I think you might find a *few *things to put in there... Not that I have any knowledge of that code base, of cours

Re: [python-uk] hexagonal Django

2014-08-13 Thread Hansel Dunlop
The Brandon Rhodes talk sounds like a nice way of looking at the problem. What I've done with my latest BIG DJANGO APP is to put the business logic into a pure Python module, Which Django imports, initialises with a storage adaptor (which makes mocking this adaptor easy) and then uses. The storage

Re: [python-uk] python-uk Digest, Vol 113, Issue 2

2013-01-03 Thread Hansel Dunlop
Wow. That seems like a shockingly inappropriate thing to post on a public forum. On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:00 AM, wrote: > Send python-uk mailing list submissions to > python-uk@python.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.python.org/mai

Re: [python-uk] python-uk Digest, Vol 93, Issue 2

2011-05-07 Thread Hansel Dunlop
I would be interested! Thursdays are usually a good day for that kind of thing. Cheers Hansel Dunlop Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 01:56:20 +0200 > From: Brent Tubbs > To: Python UK > Cc: Michel Floyd , Allan Crooks >, Berry Phillips < > berry.phill...@yougov.com&g