27# Tech Talks Meetup
Details
After quite a long break, we have Tech Talks Meetup again! It is on 8th of July. The start is planned for 18:30. Our venue is Tech Space (ul. Leona Wyczółkowskiego 7, Kraków).
For now the plan is that longer scheduled talks will be in English. If there are no non-Polish speaking foreigners we will probably switch to Polish.
Although the announcement is in English don't hesitate to give a Lightning Talk in Polish!
# Agenda
18:30 - 18:40 - Networking and Intro
18:40 - 19:20 - Jacek Nosal:
Write code that you won't hate. Few words on metaclasses, descriptors, and context managers.
19:20 - 19:50 - Krzysztof Mędrela:
Cython -- compile to C instead of Python bytecode
How to speed up Python program by 50% in 5 minutes, without changing code base? How to integrate Python with C and C++ and not to work very hard? How to deliver binary .exe instead of source code in .py files? How to achieve plain C speed without coding in C? The answer is simple: Cython (based on Pyrex) -- Python programming language extended with C capabilities. All these problems can be easily fixed thanks to a unique feature of Cython -- it compiles to C instead of bytecode.
19:50 - 20:20 - Christopher Lozinski: ZODB is for Trees
This talk will present several examples of persistent trees implemented in Python on the ZODB. Zopache.com is a hierarchical blog. PrivaCV has a tree of skills/job markets. PrivaCV members are represented as trees of objects with different permissions on the different branches. Zopache itself is a browser-based Javascript development environment, where the user builds a tree of HTML, CSS and Javascript objects. We will conclude with a discussion of the issues involved in choosing to use ZODB for storing trees for new python projects.
20:20 - 20:40 - Lightning Talks
A Lightning Talk is a short presentation (about 5 minutes long) that does not require much preparation and may be given without too many slides. Think of them as cinematic trailers for interesting topics or condensed tech talks.
20:40 - Afterparty (in Tech Space)
27# Tech Talks Meetup