Teaching Python
Recently Learning Tree, a well-respected training company, invited me to teach Python for them. Last week I delivered my first course for them, their Advanced Python course A room full of people, nearly 500...
Author: coen
A couple of Python coding dojo’s
As Joe Wright puts it A Coding Dojo is a programming session based around a simple coding challenge. Programmers of different skill levels are invited to engage in deliberate practice as equals. The goal...
Investment Tracking System – Django/Python
My client, a start up with a lot of experience in their field, had identified an important gap in the market. Large sums of money were being invested, with very long payback periods, without...
Bottle – Python micro framework
Like Flask, Bottle is a Python micro-framework. It is so micro that it only consists of a single file. Whilst Flask is already a fairly small framework, some developers prefer Bottle, mainly for its...
Python for Data Analysis and Natural Language Processing
As I’m making my way through Natural Language Processing with Python and Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python, the first step is to set up the development environment. My first attempt was to install numpy,...
Simple websocket client in Python
If you’re developing a websocket app you may need to throw some tests at it. Whilst looking for a websocket client I came across this client, which makes it very easy to generate websocket...
Python/Zope community website and email discussion system
In 1999 I took over the running of an online community for business and personal coaches. Initially a simple email discussion list run on the Mailman open source software, once we hit 500+ members...
Administrate Project – Technical Project Manager
The client, a highly respected training company, was using an in-house developed system to manage the courses, bookings, delegates, and sales and marketing processes. When the business outgrew the system they asked me to...
Django Migrations
Django has a great system for maintaining your database structure, for keeping your RDMS (typically MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite) in line with your Django-defined Models, and within your version control system. I recently hit...
Django – a very simple unit test
Test Driven Development (TDD) is a methodology for developing programs where you first write the test, and then write just enough code to make your program pass all tests TDD makes it far less...