Baypiggies Meeting May 27th,2010

Symantec Vcafe Map

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

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

7:35 - 8:40 pm: Technical Program

Topic: Newbie Nugget - Debugging with PDB

Speaker:  Simeon Franklin

Topic: Django Lessons Learned. Python in the startup world.

Speaker:  Barnaby Bienkowski

LINKS:

     This talk starts with a high level overview of Django (a python web framework) and where it is used in the startup world then dives into an intermediate overview of which plugins and functionality to use when and
where, for example, Pinax and Geodjango.

• Pinax, an open-source platform built on the Django Web Framework, integrates reusable Django apps to provide features that many sites have in common, including social networking feature with openID support
• GeoDjango, a geographic web framework, lets you build GIS web applications and harness the power of spatially enabled data: "Bye bye MySQL, Hello PostGIS."
  

Finally, a look at some python code demonstrates some really cool stuff.

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.