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PyDev of the Week: Werner Bruhin

This week we have Werner Bruhin as our PyDev of the Week! He’s quite busy on the wxPython Google Group helping people get into wxPython as well as creating patches for the wxPython toolkit. Let’s find...

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Plotting Data Online via Plotly and Python

I don’t do a lot of plotting in my job, but I recently heard about a website called Plotly that provides a plotting service for anyone’s data. They even have a plotly package for Python (among...

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PyDev of the Week: Luciano Ramalho

This week’s PyDev is Luciano Ramalho, the author for the upcoming O’Reilly book, Fluent Python. He was kind enough to spend a few minutes speaking with me. Let’s see what he has to say. Can you tell...

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PyDev of the Week: Brian Curtin

This week, we have Brian Curtin (@brian_curtin) as our PyDev of the Week. He is a core developer of the Python language and the primary editor of the Python Software Foundation’s blog. Let’s spend...

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Mouse Vs Python Made the 11 Must Read Blogs for Python Devs

Code Condo recently named this blog, Mouse Vs Python, as one of the “11 Must-Read Blogs for Python Developers”. The article is worth a read as it lists a number of other really good websites, such as...

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wxPython: Freeze and Thaw

The wxPython library comes with a pair of handy methods called Freeze() and Thaw(). The call to Freeze() prevents the window from updating while it is frozen. This can be useful when you are adding or...

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PyDev of the Week: Michael Herman

This week we have Michael Herman (@MikeHerman), author of Real Python for Web Development, which was the 2nd installment of the Real Python course. Let’s spend some time learning more about Michael!...

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PyDev of the Week: Carl Trachte

This week we have Carl Trachte joining us as our PyDev of the Week. Let’s spend some time getting to know our fellow Python programmer! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies, education,...

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An Intro to winshell

Today we will look at Tim Golden’s handy package, winshell. The winshell package allows you to find special folders on Windows, create shortcuts easily, work with metadata via “structured storage”,...

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Python 101: Setting Up Python on Windows Screencast

I created my first screencast based on an old article I wrote about setting up Python on Windows.

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PyDev of the Week: Steve Holden

This week we have Steve Holden (@holdenweb) joining us as our PyDev of the Week. He has been a Python advocate for a long time and is a former chairman of the Python Software Foundation. Let’s see...

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eBook Review: IPython Notebook Essentials

This week, Packt Publishing asked me to review IPython Notebook Essentials by L. Felipe Martins. They sent me an eBook copy to review. I’ve always been interesting in learning about the IPython...

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PyDev of the Week: Tom Christie

This week we have Tom Christie (@_tomchristie) as our PyDev of the Week. Tom is the author of the MkDocs project and the Django REST Framework. Let’s spend some time getting to know more about him....

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50% off on Python 101 Until 2015

I have decided to run a sale on my book, Python 101 until the end of the year. From now until January 1st, you can get my book for 50% off if you use the following offer code: xmas2014 Just go to...

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PyDev of the Week: Tim Roberts

The PyDev of the Week this week is Tim Roberts. While we’ve never met in person, he’s helped me a time or two on several of the Python 3rd party mailing lists, such as wxPython, Reportlab and (I...

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$5 Python Books from Packt

Packt Publishing recently contacted me to let me know that they’re having a $5 sale on their website for all their eBooks and Videos. Since they have a LOT of different Python and Python-related...

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eBook Review: Flask Framework Cookbook

Packt Publishing recently sent me a copy of the eBook version of Flask Framework Cookbook by Shalabh Aggarwal. I didn’t read it in its entirety as Cookbooks don’t usually make for a very interesting...

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PyDev of the Week: Bhaskar Chaudhary

Bhaskar Chaudhary is this week’s PyDev of the Week. He is the author Tkinter GUI Application Development HOTSHOT from Packt Publishing. You can read my review of the book here. Let’s spend some time...

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PyDev of the Week: Mariano Reingart

This week we have Mariano Reingart as our PyDev of the Week. Mariano co-authored the web2py Application Development Cookbook for Packt Publishing and has recently done a partial port of wxQt for...

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The Top 10 Articles of 2014

Happy New Year! This past year has been pretty great and I am looking forward to what 2015 has to offer. I have been doing this blog for quite a while now and today it’s time for a retrospective over...

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