Baypiggies Meeting March 26th,2009

Symantec Vcafe Map

7:30 pm: General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, any first-minute announcements.

7:35 - 8:40 pm: Technical Program

Topic: pylint

Speaker: Sandrine Ribeau 

LINKS: 

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pylint

Sandrine Ribeau will be talking about pylint (a tool for checking for
bugs and coding style compliance in python programs.)

Topic: profile module

Speaker:  Shannon -jj Behrens

LINKS:

JJ will be talking about using the profile module to analyse the
performance of python programs,

Topic: kcachegrind

Speaker: Drew Perttula

LINKS: 

http://kcachegrind.sourceforge.net/html/Home.html

Drew will be discussing using KCacheGrind to visualise performance
data

Topic: virtualenv, pip, and fabric

Speaker: Simeon Franklin

LINKS: 

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Fabric

Simeon will be discussing my workflow using virtualenv (managing python
development environments), pip (an easy_install replacement that works
with virtualenv environments), and fabric (a python tool for scripting
server deployment tasks).

8:40 - 9 pm: Mapping/Random Access

Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of topics the announcer is interested in.

Random Access follows immediately to allow follow up individually on topics of interest.