Scheduling Periodic Tasks with Celery 2.3.3 and Django 1.4
There are going to be times in the life of your application when you'll need to perform tasks - making requests to APIs, sending emails, or storing large amounts of data, for example. To do that, you'll most likely want to implement some sort of job queue - that is, ...
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My Saturday evening lightning talk
In which I speak in front of a bajillion people ...
Okay, it was possibly not that many people. Total attendance for PyCon 2013 was around 2500, and the auditorium was pretty packed for Saturday night talks - so it felt like a bajillion.
Katie Cunningham and I taught ...
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Amazing things to do with a Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi got another mention on Boing Boing last week, promoting a brief sampling of some of the wonderful things you can do with it:
- "Raspberry Pi, the tiny, cheap and hackable computer for children of all ages, may be used as the heart of an ...
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Intro to Python, April 6 - Recap
This past weekend, I helped a bright group of Austin women take their initial steps into the Python world. Austin PyLadies' first women's 'Intro to Python' class took place on Saturday, April 6th. Our classroom space was generously donated by by Erica Douglass of Opportunity Space. We also ...
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