The DFW Pythoneers have two kinds of meetings.

Each month on the 2nd Thursday, we meet at Snuffers in Addison(14910 Midway Road) for a social dinner, from 7:00 pm until 10:00 pm. This is across the street from our old location. Snuffers is a little noisier, but it stays open later. We are going to try it. If you need directions, you could try: http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?addr=14910+Midway+Road&csz=Addison%2C+TX+75001&country=us

On the 2nd and 4th Saturday afternoon, we meet at Nerdbooks.com for hands-on Python coding and teach sessions. The sessions run from 1:00 pm until 5:00 pm. You should bring your laptops.

History of Coding Sprints

27-Aug-2005: 8th coding sprint at Nerdbooks.com; (lost count)

13-Aug-2005: 7th coding sprint at Nerdbooks.com; had 9 people show up

Ralph Miller gave us a talk on his rules-based expert system, written in Python. We walked thru the code and discussed why you would use one.

23-Jul-2005: 6th coding sprint at Nerdbooks.com; had 5 people show up

We worked on getting everyone's laptop set up with various software packages and reviewed some of the topics we've covered before.

09-Jul-2005: 5th coding sprint at Nerdbooks.com; had 6 people show up

We covered how to serve web pages using Python, using the Twisted framework and a database connection to a PostgreSQL database. A series of advancing programs was presented.

25-Jun-2005: 4th coding sprint at Nerdbooks.com; had 9 people show up

We covered how to do data storage with Python, from pickles, shelves, SQL databases to object persistence using Durus and ZODB.

Presented were the same program written for each of the above storage scenarios. Those programs are on the source repository under datastorage.

11-Jun-2005: 3rd coding sprint at Nerdbooks.com; had 6 people show up

A different set of people showed up so we reviewed the material from the 28-May-2005 meeting, re Python data types and basic syntax.

28-May-2005: 2nd coding at Nerdbooks.com; had 6 people show up

We went over the data types (ints, strings, dicts, lists, tuples, etc.) and basic control structures of the Python language, performing experiments using the interactive Python interpreter.

14-May-2005: 1st coding at Nerdbooks.com; had 7 people show up

We discussed version control software and played around with the subversion club repository, using a very simple Python program.

History of Social Meetings

• 08-Sep-2005: 10th social at Spring Creek BBQ; (lost count)
• 11-Aug-2005: 9th social at Spring Creek BBQ; had 9 people show up
• 14-Jul-2005: 8th social at Spring Creek BBQ; had 4 people show up
• 09-Jun-2005: 7th social at Spring Creek BBQ; had 5 people show up
• 12-May-2005: 6th social at Spring Creek BBQ; had 6 people show up
• 14-Apr-2005: 5th social at Spring Creek BBQ; had 8 people show up
• 10-Mar-2005: 4th social at Spring Creek BBQ; had 9 people show up
• 10-Feb-2005: 3rd social at Spring Creek BBQ; had 6 people show up
• 13-Jan-2005: 2nd social at Spring Creek BBQ; had 4 people show up
• 09-Dec-2004: 1st social at California Pizza Kitchen; had 12 people show up