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

XIMA

Code Challenge App

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?