Notes from 29-Nov-2007 PySIG: Kent Johnson, Django, new members, cookies...

Ted Roche tedroche at tedroche.com
Tue Dec 11 23:02:28 EST 2007


Fourteen people managed to find their way to the Amoskeag Business
Incubator (it's on SOUTH Commercial Street, contrary to the directions
on the ABI site) for the November meeting, one week later than the usual
fourth Thursday of the month, of the Python Special Interest Group.

A number of new attendees arrived this month. We pointed out that the
mailing list for the group can be found on the DLSLUG and GNHLUG sites,
look for "mailing list" and that there was an announcement as well as a
discuss list for the group. We pointed out the main calendar at
GNHLUG.org as well and talked about other resources.

Several members were new to the area or had come up from Cambridge, MA
(our fair city) for the SIG meeting. They pointed out the Cambridge
Python Group, who usually posts meeting announcements on Meetup.com [1],
which boasts 103 members on their list! We discussed the ideas for
mutual cooperation, and will be glad to cross-post their announcements
to the PySIG -announce list.

Kent S. Johnson was the main presenter, and showed us how Django is used
to host the http://www.blogcosm.com site. Without going into details on
the business aspects of the site, Kent was able to give us a tour of
several of the pages, talk about the RESTful URL formats, the
model-view-controller model that's used, demonstrate some of the code
used to describe a model and the actions that can be taken on it, and
show us some of the templating language that generates the HTML. The
built-in administrative functionality, creating simple CRUD pages based
on the model descriptions, was an impressive Django feature.

An excellent meeting, with lots of code and lots of ideas. Thanks to
Kent for the main presentation, to our Cambridge brethren for making the
long trip, to Bill Sconce for arranging, announcing and MC'ing the
meeting, and to the Amoskeag Business Incubator for providing the great
venue. Hope to see you all again at next month's meeting, held on the
27th of December, likely just an informal chat.

[1] http://python.meetup.com/181/?gj=sj2


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