#148: Python Book Authors' Panel Discussion
Are you a fan of developer and technical books? Ever wonder what went into the writing of your favorite Python book? This week we peek inside the world of book authorship with a panel of renowned developer-focused authors. You'll meet Katharine Jarmul, Bruce Eckel, Luciano Ramalho, Dan Bader, and Brian Okken.
28 Jan 20181h 2min
#147: Quart: Flask, but 3x faster
There has been a bunch of new Python web frameworks coming out in the past few years. Generally, these have been focused solely on Python 3 and have tried to leverage Python's new async and await features.
19 Jan 201851min
#146: Building Alexa Skills with Python and Flask
Voice assistants and voice interfaces are quickly becoming the new, hot way to interact with computers. Two of the notable ones are amazon echo devices and google home devices. Wouldn't it be great if we could program these with Python? Even better if we could use well-known APIs such as Flask.
11 Jan 20181h 1min
#145: 2017 Python Year in Review
It's been an amazing year for Python. We've seen its meteoric growth continue to become the most popular, major programming language. We've seen significant grants and funding come in for open source. And this just might be the year that the Python 2 or Python 3 question was finally settled.
31 Dec 201759min
#144: Machine Learning at the Large Hadron Collider
We all know Python is becoming increasingly important in both science and machine learning. This week we journey to the very forefront of Physics.
26 Dec 201758min
#143: Tuning Python Web App Performance
Do you run a web application or web service? You probably do a couple of things to optimize the performance of your site. Make sure the database response quickly and more. But did you know a well of performance improvements live in your web servers themselves?
20 Dec 20171h 3min
#141: Python tricks
How many Python developers do you know that learned Python quickly but then plateaued pretty quickly as well. Maybe this is someone you worked with or maybe it's even you. Python's clean and simple syntax can mean it's easy to learn but hard to master.
7 Dec 20171h 11min
#140: Level up your Python with #100DaysOfCode challenge
How do you learn libraries or parts of Python itself that you don't have actual work projects involving them? Whether that's SQLAlchemy, Slack bots, or map APIs, actually building projects (small and large) with them is really the only way to gain true competency.
29 Nov 201758min
