We'll be at DjangoCon US 2016!
Russell and Philip will be attending DjangoCon US 2016 from July 18 - July 21, 2016!
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We'll be at PyGotham 2016!
Russell will be attending PyGotham 2016 on July 17, 2016!
500 Lines: A Python Interpreter Written in Python
Byterun is a Python interpreter implemented in Python. Through my work on Byterun, I was surprised and delighted to discover that the fundamental structure of the Python interpreter fits easily into the 500-line size restriction. This chapter will walk through the structure of the interpreter and give you enough context to explore it further. The goal is not to explain everything there is to know about interpreters\u2014like so many interesting areas of programming and computer science, you could devote years to developing a deep understanding of the topic.
Hello Website
Welcome to the BeeWare project's new website!
The original BeeWare website was written a couple of years ago, when BeeWare was still a highly experimental project. The old website was a single page affair, with individual projects maintaining their own web identity. Over time, the number of contributors has grown, the number of subprojects has grown, and the number of core team members has tripled.
Podcast.init
Podcast.__init__, where they talk about the past and future of
BeeWare, tea sets, and mental health.
Tips for Becoming a Core Contributor
At PyCon US 2016, Philip James became a Core Contributor to BeeWare!
He wrote up some of his thoughts about the process in his article Tips for Becoming a Core Contributor.
Katie McLaughlin, who got her commit bit at DjangoCon Europe 2016, followed up with a post of her own, describing her path to becoming a core contributor.
For those who aspire to become contributors to open source projects, it's helpful to hear how others got there.
We'll be at PyCon US 2016!
Russell, Philip and Katie will be attending PyCon US 2016 from June 01 - June 03, 2016!
A Tale of Two Cellphones
Python is enjoying a surge in popularity due to it's features as a language. However, over the last 10 years, mobile platforms have increased in importance, and Python doesn't have a good story on these platforms. In this talk, Dr Russell Keith-Magee will give a technical dive into the work the BeeWare project has been doing to make Python as simple to use on Mobile as it is on other platforms.
As seen at PyCon 2016.
Beyond Web 2.0 - Django and Python in the modern web ecosystem
Django is over 10 years old; but the web that it was built for - the world of "Web 2.0" - doesn't really exist any more. Yes, we still need to rapidly develop database-backed websites, AJAX-enabled, but the modern web is faced with new problems and new challenges. Many of those challenges involve interacting with devices that aren't desktop machines, and platforms that aren't a traditional browser - places where Python isn't a first-class citizen.
Does this mean we have to abandon Django and Python for other frameworks and languages? Can we keep using Python and Django on the server side and interact with independent client side frameworks? Or can we push Python and Django into these new environments?
In this talk, Dr Russell Keith-Magee will explore the problems, and the potential solutions, to these problems.
As seen at DjangoCon Europe 2016.