PuPPy January 2106 Meeting @ Zillow
Channel: AntlerJones
Date: 2016-01-15

http://www.meetup.com/PSPPython/events/227337808/

Zillow hosting our January meeting. Our hosts are generously providing food and beverages.  

At conclusion of our meeting, we'll move to Von's 1000 Spirits for members wanting to continue conversations started during our meeting. Also, for folks on waitlist who don't clear, get your Python social fix at the after-gathering.

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PyCon chair and longtime Python community leader Brandon Rhodes visiting us with a new talk.



Brandon Rhodes is a Python programmer at Dropbox and chair of PyCon 2016–17 Portland. He enjoys beautiful code, unique gin, craft beer, and the Oxford comma. 

Recently he revised his popular book Foundations of Python Network Programming for Apress Media, adding several chapters and updating all of its 2004 source code to use modern Python libraries and techniques. He replaced its guides to obsolete technologies (like the old HTMLParser andmod_python modules) with more modern libraries including lxml wsgirefand json.

Here's a list of his talks: http://rhodesmill.org/brandon/

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Cris Ewing recipient of PuPPy's 2015 Python Educator of the Year award joins us to discuss contributing to Plone. 

Cris teaches Python at Code Fellows and University of Washington.

He is also an independent software engineer with fifteen years of experience programming dynamic systems. He first worked in the field of computer music composition and then—since 2001—in web-based applications. He's built online systems in fields from music to medicine, and he's comfortable working across diverse platforms.. 

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Yusuke Tsutsumi is a software developer with a passion for helping other developers move faster. He is especially interested in utilizing automation to remove the manual pain in development cycles. Examples of his work includes automated testing, continuous integration and deployment, and stability monitoring.

Yusuke is a Senior Software Development Engineer on the Velocity team of Zillow. 

Yusuke will share with us Zillow's Uranium open source project. Uranium is a build ecosystem to address some of Python's shortcomings. More at Read the Docs, http://uranium.readthedocs.org/en/latest/