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CodeWars at PyCon AU 2012

PyCon AU started this year with CodeWars on the Friday night. The elimination round saw teams starting with a link to an EXE file that led to a puzzle of missing prime numbers. The first four teams with the correct … Continue reading

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PyCon Australia 2012 – tutorial #2 notes

The second of my PyCon AU 2012 conference tutorials is entitled Processing data with Python, using standard library modules you (probably) never knew about. Here are the tutorial notes and the

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PyCon Australia 2012 – tutorial #1 notes

I am giving two tutorials at PyCon AU 2012 this weekend. The first tutorial is titled How to write a well-behaved Python command line application. Here are the tutorial notes and the source code (as a ZIP archive).

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Notes from MPUG, August 2012

These are my notes from the August 2012 Melbourne Python Users Group meeting at Inspire 9. Andrew Walker (DSTO), Daniel Cousens (Swinburne) – “A grab bag of Pythonic computational geometry code” Andrew and Daniel gave a tag-team test run of … Continue reading

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Mudbath of the month

The second of the Salomon trail running series was held last Sunday at Plenty Gorge. When Richard (the master home brewer) announced that his 50th birthday party was going to be on the night before, it was always going to … Continue reading

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Notes from MPUG, July 2012

These are my notes from the July 2012 Melbourne Python Users Group meeting at Inspire 9. Bianca Gibson – Blender games using Python Bianca demoed Whirlstrom, a game written in 48 hours, as part of the Global Game Jam competition. … Continue reading

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Run Melbourne half-marathon

Run Melbourne was on 15 July, with 5km, 10km and half marathon courses. The aim, after rolling my ankle in early June, was a sub-1:45 half marathon. With my recovery progressing well, I thought that was realistic. The weather was … Continue reading

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Notes from MPUG, June 2012

These are my notes from the Melbourne Python Users Group meeting this month at Inspire 9. Any errors are 99% likely to be mine in the transcribing or the understanding, rather than the speaker’s. Tennessee Leeuwenburg – Udacity and Coursera: … Continue reading

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Melburn-Roobaix

Melburn-Roobaix was on last Sunday (Jun 24). For those not familiar with it, it is a 38km bike ride around inner Melbourne, with twelve cobblestone courses and 2000 riders. Unlike Paris-Roubaix, it is not a race, but in keeping with … Continue reading

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