Archived Talks

• February 24th, 2011 AMQP Messaging Patterns at Idealist.org ☜ UpdatePDX
  War stories about applying AMQP in production at Idealist.org.
  Source files: PDF slides (1.3M)
• January 11th, 2011 Decouple with Publish/Subscribe ☜ PDX Python
  Techniques for in-process signalling, examples using Blinker
  slideshow | reST source
• July 18th, 2010 Advanced SQLAlchemy Customization ☜ EuroPython 2010
  A pre-conference session exploring composing the SQLAlchemy toolkit into a tight fit for your project and development style. Explores the core, stable code paths of the library, the opportunities for customization along those paths, and occasional danger areas along the way.
  Source files: PDF slides (1.4M) | demo code (13k)
• March 10th, 2010 What I Learned at PyCon ☜ PDX Python
  Reflections on a year of functional testing at idealist.org.
  Video of the talk.
• November 10th, 2009 Pyflakes & pep8.py in emacs ☜ PDX Python
  A demo of combined pyflakes & pep8 reporting in emacs via flymake-mode.
  Source files: PDF slides (27k) | source code
• November 10th, 2009 Pbranch ☜ PDX Python
  pbranch, patch branches for Mercurial.
  Source files: PDF slides (104k)
• March 26th, 2009 Advanced SQLAlchemy Tutorial ☜ PyCon 2009
  A pre-conference session I presented with Michael Bayer.
• February 12th, 2009 Zine ☜ PDX Python
  UI & code tour of Zine, the Python blog software.
• November 11th, 2008 flatland ☜ PDX Python
  A quick lightning talk on the flatland form processing toolkit.
  Source files: browse files | zip (9K)
• October 12th, 2008 SQLAlchemy & PostgreSQL ☜ PostgreSQL Conference West 08
  With Jonathan Ellis.
  Source files: PDF slides (1.7M)
• August 12th, 2008 Bytecode Hacks: A Cautionary Tale ☜ PDX Python
  A refactoring exercise opens a door to magic that ought not be opened.
  Live code demo; browse files | zip (8K)
• June 10th, 2008 WSGI ☜ PDX Python
  Popularly known as the "nothing" talk (as in "nothing" is what WSGI provides you.)
  Live code demo; browse files | zip (5K)
• May 15th, 2008 PostgreSQL and SQLAlchemy ☜ PDXPUG
  PDF slides (793K)
• April 8th, 2008 Using inspect and exec to Build Friendlier @decorators ☜ PDX Python
  Live code demo; inspectexec.py
• March 13th, 2008 Advanced SQLAlchemy Tutorial ☜ PyCon 2008
  An intense 3 hour tutorial session I presented with Michael Bayer and Jonathan Ellis.
  PDF slides, PDF handouts, code (1.8M)
  Video should be available eventually, I'll update my blog when the PSF releases it.
• February 12th, 2008 virtualenv ☜ PDX Python
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  slideshow | reST source
• July 10th, 2007 SQLAlchemy in 5 minutes ☜ PDX Python
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  slideshow | reST source
  Video of the talk. (2 parts / low res / ok, really more like 20 minutes)

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