2 talks featuring Alex Gaynor and Benjamin Peterson

Join on us July 9th's presentation night. It will feature 2 talks:

1. The death of MVC by Alex Gaynor

The last decade of web development has been dominated by self-styled “MVC” frameworks. MVC is a term that dates back to Smalltalk and GUIs. This talk will explore what MVC actually means in the context of modern web apps, and what building websites without “MVC” would look like.

Alex Gaynor is a software engineer at Rackspace and hacks on Django, PyPy, CPython, and Topaz.

2. Anti-Patterns in Python by Benjamin Peterson

Poor discipline and design can make even small codebases hard to maintain. Large codebases magnify these problems as well as introducing unique challenges of their own. What bad patterns tend to emerge from growing codebases? Is there any hope of avoiding these anti-patterns and having beautiful if large codebases?

Benjamin Peterson is a core developer of CPython and PyPy and works at Dropbox's infrastructure.

Please sign-up here (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LtV839ktupRboMUSXlXqoJ9lLFvpe-TZtLCf2q6jUpY/viewform) to give a lightning talk.

Agenda:

6:15p - Check-in and mingle, with Pizza and Beer provided by our generous sponsor Yelp!

7:00p - Welcome and announcements

7:05p - Talk 1

7:35p - Q & A

7:45p - Lightning talks / announcements

8:10p - Talk 2

8:40p - Q & A, followed by advanced mingling

9:30p - Doors close

Lightning talks:

Sumeet Jain -- A look into yield from

Beyang Liu -- Sourcegraph: code search for Python

Please take note of the important check-in details at Yelp

1. Doors open at 6:15pm to allow enough time for the check-in process. Before 6:15pm, please wait outside without blocking the building entrance. Wait list will be admitted beginning at 6:45pm. Doors close at 7:30pm.

2. Please update the name on your account to reflect your FIRST NAME and LAST NAME. Hy will be greeting downstairs and Yelp Security will be checking IDs upstairs. If your name on Meetup.com is not the name on your ID, then please enter your full name here (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1d_oPoxjcAQzOJqozHIzVuFNnOYi7CDrzouywq4U9SUo/edit).

3. Since alcohol will be served at the event, we ask that any underage attendees RSVP directly to the meet up host.

4. Waiting list folks will be allowed into the event AFTER we admit all confirmed attendees.

Yelp is generously providing pizza, drinks, and beer in addition to their venue space.