[LUGSB] Meeting Schedule and Website Updates

[James Crasta]

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:55 PM, lugsb <lugsb at ic.sunysb.edu> wrote:
>If anyone has a planned topic they would
> like to speak about, please email me so I can include it in our poster
> announcements.

I can give a talk on Python web development. It wouldn't exactly be a
'lightning' talk, but it wouldn't take up a full hour, either. Probably
30-40 minutes.

Topics I'd cover:
 - Why use python for the web? (besides technical and project management
   reasons which I will cover, JOBS)
 - Popular frameworks: Django, Turbogears, Pylons
 - Building/customizing your own framework using great open-source
   libraries: Jinja2, Mako, Werkzeug, WTForms
 - Dr. DBLove: how I learned to stop worrying and use an ORM (Django,
   SQLAlchemy)
 - Deployment considerations: mod_python, WSGI, FastCGI, other things that
   end in 'I' but we are afraid of mentioning for fear of scorn.
 - Additional if there is interest: Web services in python (SOAP, XML-RPC,
   JSON-RPC, ajax fun); Performance and caching (memcached)

I have two exams this week, but I could give it as early as next week.