Meeting on 3/27: Hacking the Hackathon

The Puerto Rico Python Interest Group (prPIG) will hold their 3rd meeting on March 27th at 6:30 PM.  The meeting will dedicated to hacking away at the prPIG process to host collaborative events, such as a Python Hackathon, in the San Juan, Puerto Rico area.  We will brainstorm how to use what's already known and adapting (translating) it to the types of projects, processes, and activities that will be successful in Puerto Rico.

Our next scheduled regular meeting will be on April 10th, 2013 at 6:30 PM.  The co-founders of Blimp (a local startup based on Python) will give us an inside look at their SD stack.

All of the prPIG meetings at sponsored by the Internet Society, ASOPYMES, and Altamente.  Meetings are held in the ASOPYMES offices in the Teachers Association Building in Hato Rey, Suite 403.  prPIG can be contacted through a variety social networks: Google Communties, Google Groups, our Facebook Page, and here on the prPIG homepage.

prPIG was founded to create a sustainable user community based on software development in Puerto Rico

Google Group Moved

If you are looking for the Google Group, I moved it to the "Follow prPIG!" page.  It just wouldn't fit in 250 characters.

Slowly but surely, I'm getting all of the plumbing setup so that prPIG announcements will go out to every major social network, including email, all simultaneously.

Test Driven Python Development

Useful tutorial for using test-driven development, while learning Python:

Test-driven development (TDD) is a process that has been documented considerably over recent years. A process of baking your tests right into your everyday coding, as opposed to a nagging afterthought, should be something that developers seek to make the norm, rather than some ideal fantasy.

prPIG Meeting - 2/28/13

I'm organizing the next meeting of the Puerto Rico Python Interest Group.  It will be February 28 at 6:00pm in the facilities of the Teachers Association in Hato Rey. The address is 452 Ave. Ponce de León, San Juan, PR 00919.  I'll have the details promptly in Facebook.

The tentative agenda is to introduce the mission of prPIG and begin planning our first joint project.  I hope to see you there!

Coordination for 1st prPIG Meeting

I'm trying to nail down the location, the date, and the time for the first meeting.  One of our partners ASOPYMES has volunteered to host our first meeting.  Their offices are in the Association of Teachers building near the Department of Labor station of the Tren Urbano.

I'm shooting for the last week of February, either the 25th, 26th or 27th.  While I would prefer the meeting during business hours, I'm open to suggestion.  Your feedback would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

If I don't hear back from the group by 2/18/13, I'll setup the meeting and let you know the where and the when.

Programming iOS with Python

Obviously, this is a VERY hot topic, so we'll definitely be looking into all aspects of using Python to program apps for iOS.  While this review of Pythonista is about using Python on iOS, it is still applicable. Excerpt:

"An app for programming Python on iOS called Pythonista ha[s] some smart ways of getting around some of Apples restrictions. And one of the nice things you can do is home screen shortcuts, making your scripts available directly from your home screen of your iOS device."

Thanks to Jacken's Blog for the tip!

Making Bacon

Come all ye Phythonistas!

The feedback from the meetup last night, is that Puerto Rico is ready for a software development community. With pleasure, prPIG is here to serve.

I'd like to announce that we will hold the 1st Puerto Rico Python Interest Group meeting before the end of the month (2/28).

Tentatively, the meetup will be at the UMET Cupey campus, unless someone would like to volunteer a location in the SJ Metro area? With WIFI por favor? :-)

Thanks for the leadership of Axel Rivera!  It was great networking with other Pythonistas!

Don't forget to like the prPIG Facebook Page!