May 6, 2015, #4 Project Night Recap
2015-05-07
Filed under Recap
Tags ReactiveX Functional Programming Haskell NoSQL Django Brython Vagrant
Together we agreed that hands-on is much more exciting then raw blah-blah-blah, and have completely switched to #PyNight format. Discussions and speakers always welcome as an addition to code. We had lots of fun, coding together and late night techn'o'sophic chatting.
Projects
- abele , algaruda and Aleksejs still inspired by Go Reactive Workshop and ReactiveX were digging into functional, porting ReactiveX tutorial to python
- daGrevis and siers continued with pong-py implementation of Pong in Brython
- zrks and gstrazds found a way to access Vagrant API through a web page
- dtwdevelop was doing some Django
Discussion
- Beauty of pythonic Zen
- Benefits of functional
- How implementation of map runs fast pythonic way and kills PC recursive way
- Why PHP is bad
- Haskell as awesome functional language that nobody uses
- Types and benefits of NoSQL
- Brain killers on meditation
- What is important to make positions of Python even stronger: Windows (Visual Studio Python Tools), Games dev (PyGame), Mobile (Kivy)
- Geeky jokes the way we like
Links
- CoderByte - Cool programming challenges (also in Python)
- Eve - simple Python REST framework
- JSON API - Standard for building APIs in JSON
- Technology radar 2015
- TryHaskell - interactive Haskell shell + tuts
Upcoming events
- May 27th, 19:00, next #PyNight
- May 12th, 19:00, TechHub Riga Meetup
- May 16th, 10:00, Wildcard Unconference 2015
- May 22th-24th, Riga Startup Weekend
- May 23th, 10:00, Agile Day Riga 2015
- May 30th, 13:00, MakeRiga Hacking competition
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