A personal recap of the Scipy 2011 conference, highlighting keynotes on scientific software, data mining with Python, and trends in statistics and parallel computing.
Announcing early bird registration deadline for EuroSciPy 2011, a conference on scientific computing with Python, featuring tutorials and talks.
A guide exploring the immense challenges and technical steps required to create a high-performance Python implementation from scratch.
An in-depth guide to Python's super() function, explaining its capabilities, practical use cases, and best practices for effective inheritance.
A guide to setting up a virtual environment and project structure for Django applications, covering OSX and Ubuntu.
Explores a subtle bug in Python 2 set comparisons involving custom __eq__ methods and how it's resolved in Python 3.
Announcement for a 2-year junior engineer position to work on the scikit-learn machine learning library at INRIA near Paris.
Developer shares excitement about a summer internship at Quora, focusing on migrating the site to PyPy and performance tuning.
EuroScipy conference in Paris announces program details, keynote speakers, and a new poster session. Submission deadline is May 8th.
A PyPy developer details optimizing Python code for the Computer Language Shootout benchmarks, revealing CPython-specific hacks and cross-implementation challenges.
A developer's journal documenting their participation in PyWeek #12, a game jam, detailing the creation of a side-scrolling platformer using Python and pyglet.
The scikit-learn team announces a community sprint on April 1st for improving the Python machine learning library, with in-person and remote participation.
A recap of the PyPy team's San Francisco tour, including sprints at Noisebridge and tech talks at Google and Mozilla, focusing on performance improvements and compiler discussions.
A guide to Christoph Gohlke's repository of pre-compiled Windows binaries for scientific Python packages like NumPy, SciPy, and scikit-learn.
A research group seeks a post-doc for the AzureBrain project, using Python for parallel computing and statistics on brain imaging/genetics data.
The article discusses the declining practice of reading open source code and proposes adding direct source links to Python documentation to encourage developers to engage with source.
A preview of PyCon 2011 highlighting great talks, the hallway track, sprints, and urging early registration.
An introduction to the Tipfy web framework, a lightweight Python framework specifically designed for Google App Engine development.
A guide to using tox, a Python testing tool, for multi-environment testing, documentation building, and dependency management.
A developer shares his new role as a Google App Engine API Expert for Japan, aiming to support and educate other developers in the region.
