Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London

I'm an IET member and attend their lectures occasionally. It's part of the the Institute of Engineering Technology's mission to put on the sort of presentations and lectures we'd like. So we're helping with their mission. If you don't know it, the IET is the engineer's equivalent of the institu

Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London

Andy Robinson wrote: > > Michael Foord wrote: > >> There are lots of banks, hedge funds and other companies that now >> develop with Python. It would be nice to find a way of reaching them >> (and finding out what they would like to learn about). Perhaps spamming >> all the London companies

[python-uk] Python lecture series

I talked to Xenophon Christolou who runs the London IET group about the idea of putting on some Python events. He was very supportive. I was expecting we'd have to plan months ahead, but we're in luck - if WE Can act fast enough! A speaker cancelled for the 11th April. For this one, we'd need

Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London: Ten lines of code

Allow me a trip into fantasy land. I'd like to play with an idea for a lecture of broad appeal suitable for the 11th, where we addresses a wider audience of non-Python users. What do you think? Ten lines of code - Python's power Lecture by ???, Michael Grazebrook, and ??? Date &a

Re: [python-uk] Python evening talks in London: Ten lines of code

@Tim Nobody has volunteered off-line. I reckon you volunteered! Thanks. I'm going to try to persuade Andy Robinson to do 10 minutes if I can, but he's on holiday this week.  The proposal I'm making is so basic (in Python terms) that if the worst came to the worst I could do it myself, despite

[python-uk] Python lecture at the IET, July 5th

We have a lecture slot at the IET for July 5th. For those who haven't been there, the facilities are first rate. If we choose a workshop: if we want to do practical demonstrations and let people join in, not only is there a wireless network we can use but also a number of PCs for people withou

Re: [python-uk] Python lecture at the IET, July 5th

;m concerned, the fact that we can DO this sort of thing is a pretty good benefit! So Pete Ryland, Tim Golden, myself and maybe Andy Robinson need to get to present the formal description for publication and prepare our slides. Michael Grazebrook wrote: We have a lecture slot at the IET for J

[python-uk] London Python event at the IET's Savoy PLace building

eception 20:00 - 22:00 Event: A light byte of Python Venue: The IET, Savoy Place, London, WC2R 0BL Cost: Free Talk by: Michael Grazebrook, Tim Golden and Pete Ryland Python is a modern language. Easy enough for the engineer seeking to dabble in simple programming, but powerful enough to be used

Re: [python-uk] ann: Python at the IET

drop in on The Institution of Engineering and Technology [1] on the Embankment near Waterloo Bridge [2] for "A Light byte of Python" [3]. Michael Grazebrook, Pete Ryland and I are flying the Python flag for the benefit of technologists who have not yet had the pleasure. Michael will be usin

Re: [python-uk] ann: Python at the IET

Thanks to all who made it. We had a terrific turn-out: overbooked, but fortunately just enough people didn't show to let everyone get in. We were told to plan for 30 but got about 140. Tim did a superb presentation which both showcased the language nicely and also was easy for beginners to foll

Re: [python-uk] ann: Python at the IET

Tim - Thanks for the kind words and I agree with what you say. In particular, I felt a little guilty that all those people brought their lap-tops but didn't get to play (though we did get a lot of people to load Python). The large numbers do give us an excuse, and nobody SAD they were disappo

Re: [python-uk] python-uk Digest, Vol 47, Issue 5

By speaking to this list you've spoken to the right people about IET lectures. This was a community event, the speakers recruited from this list. Tim, Pete and myself have some small advantage in experience having given the first one. As far as I know, anyone can ask to put on a talk at the I

Re: [python-uk] python-uk Digest, Vol 47, Issue 5

It's up to us in consultation with the IET to propose the format. What we delivered was not in the format we'd originally planned - we'd intended to deliver to an audience of about 30 with a much more tutorial aspect - so clearly both formats are possible. Michael Foord wrot

[python-uk] Forwarding an Agency python request

I know it's an agency, and know nothing about the agency, but since at least one person at last night's meeting was looking for work I hope it's OK to forward the following spam: -- From [EMAIL PROTECTED] A leading investment bank, located in Central London, is currently looking for Pyth

Re: [python-uk] London Python Roles

I work in the financial sector. Python is definately increasing. Some systems are being written in Python, but that's not its main use. Certainly not for calculations and financial models, where they normally have to be very fast. It's popular as a repacement for Perl, for example in batch au

Re: [python-uk] Tell us what you did with Python this year....

milling machine's g-code language. At the moment the code is in an archaic Basic dialect. Is that sort of thing interesting to you? yours, Michael Grazebrook On 20/12/2010 14:43, pyt...@rotwang.co.uk wrote: Controlling a 2 axis mirror array to concentrate solar energy. Generating CAD

Re: [python-uk] Future Dojo idea ... randomised trials

It would be amusing to do a randomised trial, well-designed, and submit the results to some prestigious journal. Of course we'd probably be turned down. But then again, I bet there are very few academic studies based on the use of hardened professionals like us. Or even ... we could look for pape

Re: [python-uk] Game of Life / TDD ideas

There is no one true way of development. The standards my brother works to on civil aircraft systems, are utterly different from what I experience in the commercial world - thank goodness. As a freelancer, I often come into chatoic clients. Heres a method I sometimes use: Most people know what st

Re: [python-uk] LIVE Python Developer Vacancies

Does the Norwegian Blue tweet? On 30/11/2012 12:06, xtian wrote: Or just not moving due to being tired and shagged out after a particularly loud tweet. ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk

Re: [python-uk] The London Python Dojo is this Thursday

Perhaps we could stream teams, but also make sure less experienced teams have more experienced mentors - mentors who would rarely take the keyboard and try to ensure everyone is included. On 12/07/2013 12:18, a.gra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On 12 July 2013 12:00, Tim Golden wrote: While I'm d

Re: [python-uk] Micropython for microcontrollers

Thanks. Just signed up for one. I'm doing a bluetooth related development and what Damien's creating is exactly what I wanted - but couldn't find - when I started the project. The Nordic Semiconductor bluetooth module is a system-on-chip with enough memory to run this and also based around an

[python-uk] Interesting libraries

Hi The modules you chose last meetup were interesting. Would anyone like to give lightning talks expanding on the demos we did? We uncovered a range of intriguing, useful and rarely used modules. The demos gave us a taste, but not always a balanced view of the modules' true strengths. So if y

[python-uk] Looking for work

trong on analysis, design, software engineering. I mostly work in the City. If anyone is active in an open source Python project, I'm open to suggestions for good uses for my time while I look for work. Michael Grazebrook. ___ python-uk mai

Re: [python-uk] Next London Python Code Dojo - 3rd June at Hogarthin Soho

Hi Tom, You say you're hiring. I'm a contract worker with 3 decades of experience. I normally work in the City. I'm trying to shift my skills from C++ & various relational databases to Python. Python is my favourite language. (If you were there for the 'pointless' dojo, that was my idea). I'v

Re: [python-uk] Next London Python Code Dojo - 3rd June at Hogarthin Soho

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Re: [python-uk] MicroPython / BBC micro:bit at Python user groupsin the UK

Perhaps we could do a London dojo on MicoPython? I imagine we'd need to bring around 5 Pyboards to the party. I have one - do others? It's fun, cheap and amazingly easy to use - no complex tool chain, just write 'main.py' to the pyboard like a memory stick and it works. _

[python-uk] First dojo of 2016 is next Thursday: Wait list

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[python-uk] Python data wrangling - my experience of last year's Southampton course

sted in my experience of the world of work. It introduced me to some tools I hadn't known about before such as slack and etherpad. Add to that the pleasure of revisiting student life and I had an excellent week. Maybe this would interest you

Re: [python-uk] Reviewing third-party packages

It's a question which interests me too. If you find some good resources, could you post them to this group? Do you know how much checking is done on the Active State and Anaconda distributions? On 27 July 2017 at 00:17:33 +01:00, p...@getaroundtoit.co.uk wrote: > Are you able to recommend mate

Re: [python-uk] searching for a python Django developer

I am looking for a new Python contract but alas, although I've been using Python for a decade, I've never used Django. On 31 July 2017 at 20:49:31 +01:00, victoria marr wrote: > Hello > > I am Victoria Marr co founder of Ballet fitness > and we are searching for a

[python-uk] Digital Market place

If you're a consultant or part of a comapny who'd like to bid for government work, there's a window of opportunity to sign up for the Government Digital Marketplace: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/g-cloud-suppliers-guide In the past, some Python contracts have been advertised there which I'd lov