Burgers and Beer
A great time was had by all at The Counter this evening. We had an all time high turn out at near 100%! Several new faces joined today as well. Perhaps the time/date change was helpful? Alex was able to make it out from DC. He brought me up to date on Python Packges and the near [...]
NOVA Python January
Today’s meetup went pretty well. Kenneth Reitz gave his Python for Humans talk. The main focus (I felt) was on PEP 20′s “There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it”. The major problem being that new adopters are faced with multiple choices to do everyday things like file system access [...]
Nasdaq ITCH
I recently read through Veryon’s posts on bootstrapping a low latency HFT and I was intrigued. I had really thought that all automated trading was simply watching stock prices, comparing to different algorithms, and making decisions. I didn’t see any reason why you would need low latency or anything like that. I learned a lot. [...]
CloudFoundry Python Support
I am very interested by VMWare’s CloudFoundry Platform solution because it is open to any infrastructure, including private clouds. Its also open source, and there are many people involved in building it up. It is built on Ruby, and therefore has its strongest roots in the Ruby community, but there are also some Python folks [...]
Does anyone use Python 3.x?
I don’t use python in my job, but its something I’d like to learn. When I try to learn a new language I usually run through the Project Euler site. I think it’s a good way to learn about datatypes and loops and how to iterate through collections… blah blah… it gives a good intro [...]
