Python Specialty Area

2015 Review

Long form

A highlight of what we've accomplished in the last year

First:

Blog Posts

  • Dan Davis: Mocking Strategies and Frameworks for Python
  • Dan Ford: Three of the Most Common Mistakes Made When Using Elasticsearch
  • Dev Mehta:
    • To ORM Or Not To ORM
    • Four Things to Consider Before Creating Your Ansible Playbook
  • Kurt Wall: Introduction To PDB
  • Mike Brown:
    • Let's Use Generators By Default
    • Vagrant Vs. Docker

Presentations/Events

  • Dev Mehta: TechTalkDC/Django District Django Workshop
  • Mike Brown:
    • Excella: Face-off Hackathon
    • Django District: Mediocre Developers
    • DevOpsDaysDC: Vagrant for Non-Developers
    • TechTalkDC/Django District Django Workshop

Presentations/Events (cont)

  • Dan Davis:
    • Django District: Mocking Strategies
    • Tech Talk DC: Mediocre Developers
    • Django District: Lightning Talk
    • Excella: Visual Diff Testing
    • Django District: Ansible Vault
    • DevOpsDC: Ansible Vault
    • Excella: What's the Deal with Django
    • DjangoCon: Intro to Mocking: Why Unit Testing Doesn't Have To Be So Hard

The Fedora

Face-Off

Emmanuel, Sean Lewis, Mike
Dev, Mike

XIMA

Nick, Dan

Code Challenge App

Vic, Dan, Chris

We now have:

  • Moar skills!
  • Public speaking experience
  • A Django tutorial
  • A Flask demo
  • Proof of Wagtail experience
  • Multiple proofs of Django experience
  • A showcase app on Excella.com
  • A Framework for running katas

Well Done!


What Did I Miss?