#52: EVE Online: MMO game powered by Python
Have you ever played a massively multiplayer online game? My first experience with these types of games with text-based role playing games called MUDs back in the early 90's. Well, things have come a long way since then. Game such as Eve Online have hundreds of thousands of players exploring, trading, and battling within a universe of over 7,000 star systems. Gameplay in Eve Online consists of beautiful 3D space flight within a dynamic universe and many real world players.
27 Mars 201654min
#51: SigOpt: Optimizing Everything with Python
You've heard that machine intelligence is going to transform our lives any day now. This is usually presented in a way that is vague and non-descript.
21 Mars 201637min
#50: Web scraping at scale with Scrapy and ScrapingHub
What do you do when you are working with an amazing web application that, for whatever reason, doesn't have an API? One option is to say I wish that site had an API and give up. Or, you could use scrapy, an open source web scraping framework from Pablo Hoffman and [scrapinghub.com](scrapinghub.com) and create your own API!
15 Mars 201658min
#49: Microsoft's JIT-based Python Project: Pyjion
This episode you'll learn about a project that has the potential to unlock massive innovation around how CPython understands and executes code. And it's coming from what many of you may consider an unlikely source: Microsoft and the recently open-sourced, cross-platform .NET Core runtime.
8 Mars 20161h 3min
#48: Building Flask-based Web Apps
When you think of Python web microframeworks, Flask is definitely near the top of the list. With almost 19,000 stars on GitHub it's a powerful and extensible web framework and it even powers the bandwidth intensive audio delivery of the Talk Python To Me podcast.
1 Mars 201649min
#47: Python in Typeface and Font Development
This week on Talk Python To Me, we'll dive into the world of typeface and font development. Even though we spend our days immersed in fonts, from our computer interfaces, signs, books, television and more, much of the process and thinking about fonts is invisible to us. If we dig into font development, we'd see that Python is a key component of the font developer's toolkit.
23 Feb 201644min
#46: Python in Movies and Entertainment
What did you experience the last time you watched a movie in a theater? Were you captivated by fast-paced action and special effects? Deeply moved by the characters that came to life during those two hours when the outside world just melted away? Yeah, movies are still magical.
16 Feb 201657min
#45: The Python Testing Column, Now a Thing
What is the role, the core purpose of writing tests for your application? Should you write more unit tests and fewer integration tests, or is it actually the other way around? You may have heard of the test pyramid with unit tests building the foundation. In this episode we talk about a variation on that theme called the test column. We talk about this and more with Brian Okken on this episode of Talk Python To Me.
9 Feb 201658min
