Re: [python-uk] OpenERP users (in London?)

2014-07-15 Thread Tim Diggins
oh and to answer (b) yes, I'd be interested in hearing a talk on OpenERP. On 15 July 2014 16:58, Tim Diggins wrote: > Hi Jonathan (and list) - > > I'm not using OpenERP but working on similar resource-planning/workflow > software and would really like to meet up a

Re: [python-uk] OpenERP users (in London?)

2014-07-15 Thread Tim Diggins
Hi Jonathan (and list) - I'm not using OpenERP but working on similar resource-planning/workflow software and would really like to meet up and swap notes. Tim On 15 July 2014 16:48, Jonathan Hartley wrote: > Hey, > > I'm curious about whether there are any users of OpenERP (a Python > logisti

Re: [python-uk] TDD stuff in London, next two weeks (and list comprehension scoping)

2014-05-30 Thread Tim Diggins
Harry *//excursus on the moan * The problem with seems to be with scopes vs namespace differentiation rather than comprehensions (though I haven't *actually* tried this in python 3). So this problem only should occur in class bodies. And doing heavy lifting stuff like comprehensions in a class bod

[python-uk] Shoreditch school looking for "Real-life Pythonistas" to come in and tell us about their work

2014-03-19 Thread Tim Diggins
Hi list I'm working with a technology-focused secondary school (actually a "University Technical College" for 14-18 year olds) in Shoreditch and they have been learning python. To make this less academic and put it into a vocational context, we had an idea that they might be interested in finding

Re: [python-uk] Reading list

2013-06-26 Thread Tim Diggins
> > > However, is fancy book learning the best method to learn? > > only recommended method if learning in the bath / on the beach ;-) ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

Re: [python-uk] Suggestions / best practices for deployment

2013-05-20 Thread Tim Diggins
On 20 May 2013 14:51, Harry Percival wrote: > Interesting points both. I think it's insightful to think about the line > beween provisioning and deployment... The idea that deployment shouldn't > require root permissions is a good stake in the ground. > > In the book I've decided I'm going to ta

Re: [python-uk] Suggestions / best practices for deployment

2013-05-16 Thread Tim Diggins
Harry - I think if you're teaching best practices on python and testing, you've got to teach virtualenv - maybe not for deployment (cause better to have separate VMs for staging and production) but for development and testing, really important (unless you do everything in a vm, like vagrant or sim

Re: [python-uk] Suggestions / best practices for deployment

2013-05-15 Thread Tim Diggins
Hi Harry (and list) First - I think you should separate out provisioning (setting up the server and all the dependencies and maybe the initial install) from deployment (repeatedly updating the site based on the latest codebase and db migrations etc). Secondly - my experience (which may not be ver

Re: [python-uk] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science

2013-05-01 Thread Tim Diggins
Interesting. Agree it is roughly on-topic, It's doesn't seem to be a rogue or fraudulent email. But also it does sound like it's unsolicited bulk mail. I'd rather leave it up to a Bayesian filter to decide if that all means it's spam or not. ;-) On 1 May 2013 09:32, Thomas Morton wrote: > They

Re: [python-uk] Reminder: London Python Meetup, Tuesday May the 6th

2008-05-07 Thread Tim Diggins
Thanks Simon to organizing it - and to all the speakers - good lightnings and great django talk. Only drawback: shame about the lack of IDE fisticuffs. On 6 May 2008, at 07:12, Simon Brunning wrote: Details here: http://tinyurl.com/3snu66 Tim Diggins http://red56.co.uk/people/tim

Re: [python-uk] Help Please

2007-02-01 Thread Tim Diggins
> How do I go from here to creating an incidence list representation and > adjacency matrix? (is it possible to assign to individual items in each tuple? I guess not). You're right python tuples are immutable (1,2,3), whereas python lists [1,2,3] are mutable. However which you use is really a

Re: [python-uk] Python for Kids

2005-10-21 Thread Tim Diggins
Mamading - the links & your course idea are really interesting - the livewires course interests me, but I'm interested in adapting it to make it more appropriate for primary (juniors) age kids (because that's how old my children are, not because I'm an expert in that field!) In respect of your

[python-uk] Openings at creative technology company Soda [London, UK]

2005-01-28 Thread Tim Diggins
ite http://www.soda.co.uk or the specific deep links. Please pass this info on to anyone who might be interested. Thanks! Tim Diggins Development Director Soda --- Soda is growing --- Soda is a multi-disciplinary team of highly crea