{"id":21050,"date":"2006-12-04T00:52:39","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T06:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/archives\/2006\/12\/04\/ride-the-snake"},"modified":"2007-12-05T00:51:25","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T06:51:25","slug":"ride-the-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/archives\/2006\/12\/04\/ride-the-snake","title":{"rendered":"RIDE THE SNAKE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi.  It&#8217;s been a while.  I beg your forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.rice.edu\/~dsandler\/python\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cs.rice.edu\/~dsandler\/python\/talks\/061130-csclub\/talk-outline-128.png\" style=\"border:3px solid black;float:right;margin-left:1em;margin-bottom:0.5em;\"><\/a> I gave a slightly silly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.rice.edu\/~dsandler\/python\/talks\/061130-csclub\/dsandler-python.pdf\">talk<\/a> about the programming language <a href=\"http:\/\/python.org\/\">Python<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruf.rice.edu\/~geeks\/\">Rice CS Club<\/a> last Thursday.  It was a pretty mixed audience (ranging from &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure what Python is&#8221; to &#8220;what do you think of the new 2.5 features?&#8221;) so I tailored the lecture to experienced programmers and scientists new to Python in particular. The slides, along with some links I promised to the attendees, are collected on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.rice.edu\/~dsandler\/python\/\">my new python page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While we&#8217;re on the topic: If you&#8217;re a <a href=\"http:\/\/python.org\/\">parselmouth<\/a> and build web applications for fun or profit, you should be aware that <a href=\"http:\/\/webpy.org\/\">web.py version 0.2<\/a> came out last week.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/webpy.infogami.com\/tutorial2.en\">tutorial<\/a> has been updated to use all the schmancy new features, like the built-in <a href=\"http:\/\/webpy.infogami.com\/templetor\">template system<\/a> (replacing Cheetah, which is a little heavyweight for the web.py approach, which is something along the lines of &#8220;the absolute least amount of code that still saves you a substantial amount of work&#8221;).  I&#8217;m looking forward to using the 0.2 release to whip up a redesign of the <a href=\"\/tools\/shirtdb\/\">Beer-Bike tee shirt database<\/a> in time for the 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the college system (and, hence, of <a href=\"http:\/\/beerbike.com\/\">Beer-Bike<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi. It&#8217;s been a while. I beg your forgiveness. I gave a slightly silly talk about the programming language Python to the Rice CS Club last Thursday. It was a pretty mixed audience (ranging from &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure what Python is&#8221; to &#8220;what do you think of the new 2.5 features?&#8221;) so I tailored the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}