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• 2012

PyTexas 2012

Talks

• "An Introduction to boto, the Python Library for Amazon Web Services" by Victor Trac
• "A Talk of Lightning Talks" by Jeff Rush, a long-timer presenter at Python events and developer/instructor in the Dallas area.
• "Back To School: Python, Udacity, and the future of online education." by Gregory "Dutch" Matous is a Udacity student. He has an M.S. in Physics and has developed software in mail-order pharmacy, on-line payment systems, sales and franchise tax for the State of Texas, and programming learning toys for Leapfrog inc.
• "Building data driven web app with Python Flask and D3.js" by I have been working with data for the last fifteen years and mostly work with enterprises and help them make sense of the numbers. I have had this itch to build a data driven web app with all the cool visualizations and data mining insights. I spent sometime in Rails and Django and finally found the cure in Flask / D3.js. I am excited about the possibilities of building some data driven apps like the ones I see and read every day.
• "Building Open Source Apps For Tendenci" by John-Michael Oswalt, programming manager at Schipul Technologies and Ed Schipul, CEO and Programmer at Schipul Technologies.
• "Building Rich Applications with Django and Ember.js" by Gabriel Grant After several years in the depths of high-performance computing, I returned to the web world a couple years ago and discovered that Django's awesome-to-pain ratio had tipped strongly in it's favor. I've been hooked ever since. As web lead at dotCloud for the past year, I've gotten to work on making Django deployment awesome at DotCloud in San Francisco. I'm now spending more of my time doing developer advocacy -- acting as dotCloud's "customer-in-residence" to ensure the company is producing a product developers love. I maintain and contribute to a number of open source projects: https://github.com/gabrielgrant
• "Code Recipes for Debugging" by V. James Powell
• "Debugging Strategies: A Guided Discussion" by Jeff Rush, a Python consultant and instructor in the Dallas area, former Python Advocacy Coordinator and previous board member of the Python Software Foundation for two years.
• "Dunder what? Python's object model explained." by Luke Lee is a full-time Python developer writing desktop GUI and scientific computing applications in the oil and gas industry. He is a regular member of the Houston Python and Django groups. After several years of writing embedded software in C for Solid State Disks, Luke jumped head first into the Python ecosystem. He came to Python for the whitespace and stuck with it for the community.
• "Finding the Balance Between Micro-Coding versus Macro-Coding" by John-Michael Oswalt, programming manager at Schipul Technologies. He received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M and knows how to program in HMTL, CSS, SQL, Javascript, Python, and Django. While at A&M, JMO got involved in the student run organization CARPOOL and learned how to code and make websites. After graduation he moved to NYC to work for Accenture briefly before returning to Houston to work at Schipul. John-Michael's passions include: * solving problems, * helping people, * solving complicated math in his head, * all things tech, * analyzing data for trends. John-Michael also believes that User Experience is something worth fighting for.
• "Introduction to Agile Development with Scrum" by Tomo Popovic, MSEE, CSM, CSPO
• "Introduction to Blender 3D" by Gordon Fisher is the author of Blender 3D Basics by Packt Publishing. He has been a speaker at PyArkansas for the past several years and has spoken at PyTexas, Siggraph and Comicon. He has been an award-winning animator and programmer for many years.
• "Introduction to Git for the Python Hacker" by Mark Allen has been fluctuating between a system administrator and a software developer for 15 years. He has been a speaker at OSCON and several Perl conferences. He hopes to do a talk at PyCon this spring.
• "LLVMPY" by Dr. Ilan Schnell has a Ph.D. in theoretical solid state physics from the University of Bremen in Germany. After having worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Lab and Georgetown University, he joined Enthought, where he mainly focused on building the Enthought Python distribution. He is also the author of the Bitarray Python library. He recently joined Continuum Analytics, a startup in Austin which focuses on large scale computing in Python.
• "Managing Large Distributed Systems with Twisted Python" by Tyler Hobbs, Distributed Systems Engineer, DataStax
• "Manipulating Tabular Data Using Pandas and IPython Notebook" by Walker Hale IV
• "MySQL Update -- MySQL 5.6, Cluster 7.3, and beyond" by Dave Stokes is a Community Manager for MySQL and has been using MySQL since version 3.23.
• "Optimizing a Trebuchet Design" by Charles McCreary P.E.
• "Proprietary or Open Source? Which path should you take for your app?" by Ed Schipul, CEO and Programmer at Schipul Technologies and John-Michael Oswalt, Programming Manager at Schipul Techonlogies.
• "Python and the Holy Grail of Debugging: An Introduction to OTrace" by Dr. R. Saravanan, Professor
• "Seven Database Tricks" by Dave Stokes, MySQL Community Manager Oracle
• "Tracing and Profiling" by Sameer Khan
• "Twisted Conch: SSH Tunnels, Proxies, VPNs! oh my!" by Eric P. Mangold Sr. Dev, Cattura Video Long-time Twisted contributor, and advocate :)
• "Using Python within Blender 3D" by Gordon Fisher is the author of Blender 3D Basics by Packt Publishing. He has been a speaker at PyArkansas for the past several years and has spoken at PyTexas, Siggraph and Comicon. He has been an award-winning animator and programmer for many years.
• "Using the Tornado web framework to build a graphical terminal interface for multiplexed remote access" by R. Saravanan does climate research at Texas A&M, in addition to teaching courses in meteorology and programming. He has dabbled in open source projects for a long time, and has been very happy using Python for the past 3-4 years, after saying goodbye to curly braces (for the most part). Mostly recently, he has been developing Python-based software to improve classroom interaction.
• "Classes and Metaclasses" by James Powell is a Python programmer residing in New York City. He is the co-organiser of the NYC Python meetup (nycpython.com) and has spoken at PyData SV, PyData NYC, PyTexas, PyArkansas, PyGotham, and at the NYC Python meetup. He also authors a blog on Python topics at dontusethiscode.com
• "Developing Web Services with Bottle" by Jeff Kramer is a Technical Architect at HP Cloud, where he develops new cloud automation services for customers. After a decade and a half with the other 'P' languages, he finally jumped into Python with both feet early last year, and has since taught a small intro to python class and built an OpenStack compatible cloud service from the ground up.
• "dtrace, python and you" by Mark Allen
• "Embeddings of Python" by James Powell is a Python programmer residing in New York City. He is the co-organiser of the NYC Python meetup (nycpython.com) and has spoken at PyData SV, PyData NYC, PyTexas, PyArkansas, PyGotham, and at the NYC Python meetup. He also authors a blog on Python topics at dontusethiscode.com
• "Filtering and Deduplicating Data in IPython Notebook" by Walker Hale
• "Flask: a Micro Web Framework for Simple Things" by Walker Hale
• "__instancecheck__ and user-defined type systems" by James Powell is a Python programmer residing in New York City. He is the co-organiser of the NYC Python meetup (nycpython.com) and has spoken at PyData SV, PyData NYC, PyTexas, PyArkansas, PyGotham, and at the NYC Python meetup. He also authors a blog on Python topics at dontusethiscode.com
• "Notable Features of Python" by James Powell is a Python programmer residing in New York City. He is the co-organiser of the NYC Python meetup (nycpython.com) and has spoken at PyData SV, PyData NYC, PyTexas, PyArkansas, PyGotham, and at the NYC Python meetup. He also authors a blog on Python topics at dontusethiscode.com
• "PyYAML, ElementTree, and Liquibase" by Walker Hale
• "Test" by Benjamin LIles
• "The Future of Python in Personal Clouds" by Jeff Kramer is a Technical Architect at HP Cloud, where he develops new cloud automation services for customers. After a decade and a half with the other 'P' languages, he finally jumped into Python with both feet early last year, and has since taught a small intro to python class and built an OpenStack compatible cloud service from the ground up.