February 1 2007

 * Speakerless format where we decided to break up into groups, each exploring 1 of 3 of the common or interesting templating engines available for python.  Genshi, twiddler, and maco were investigated.  Genshi is similar to kid, but with some advantages, notably, better error reporting.  Twiddler is quite different in that it basically replaces or manipulates elements in a text or HTML file or stream by name or ID.  Twiddler would be good for most template requirements, but not would not be very suitable for real complex template processing.  Maco is reportedly very fast, supports multiple-layered inheritance, and also offers a great deal of flexible caching control.  Powerful but a bit more complex to set up and use.

 * Other templating engines were mentioned in passing, like cheetah, which has been around longer than most other offerings, and is fast.  The speed is due to the fact that it uses 'C' rather than python for much of it's work.

December 7 2006

 * Overview of PyBlosxom by Jim C. Mc``Donald (Online at http://www.mcguru.net/download/presentations/michipug-pyblosxom/)
 

November 2 2006

 * Open discussion about Python IDEs and Editors

October 3 2006

 * Bruce Webber spoke about wxPython
 * Titus Brown, the author of the Twill testing tool, spoke about twill and related testing tools.
 * Jason Pellerin, the author of the Nose testing tool, was present and discussed nose.

 * Notes and resources
 

September 7 2006

One year anniversary meeting as well as change of venue to Arbor Networks
 * Mark Ramm presented an SQLAlchemy Introduction
 * Steven Kryskalla presented 2 new Python 2.5 Features: conditional expressions and partial function application

August 3 2006

Open discussion.

July 6 2006

Open discussion.

June 1 2006

 * Mark Ramm provided a brief overview of some of the Python books out right now.
 * Kevin Dangoor gave an overview and showed some examples of how to use Rule Dispatch and Generic functions .
 * Jim Mc``Donald gave an overview of his  Python Web Developer Appliance.

May 4 2006

Mike Bernson presented his ReportLab + Kid reporting stack.

April 6 2006

 * Python PostgreSQL Basics  by Jim C. Mc``Donald (download  [PDF] )

March 7 2006

Open discussion.  Talk centered on what happened at PyCon 2006.

February 2 2006

 * Introduction to setuptools, Eggs, and Easy Install  by Jim C. Mc``Donald (download  [ PDF] )
 * Zhongwen Redesign (PIL, pyparsing, and TurboGears) by Steven Kryskalla

January 5 2006

Open discussion.  Kevin presented new TurboGears features.

December 1 2005

One presentation was given:
 * Python GTK Programming by Mike Bernson (materials available here]).

November 14 2005

The third MichiPUG meeting.  One presentations was given:
 * Element``Tree Overview by Roger Espinosa
The rest of the night was unstructured talk.

October 13 2005

The second MichiPUG meeting.  No presentations were planned, so there was a round table discussion about various subjects.  Some very nice left over refreshments were served.
 

October 8 2005

TurboGears sprint.  We worked on CRUD, better Kid error reporting, porting animation code to MochiKit, and an interactive TurboGears shell.

See Kevin's writeup and pictures [ here].  More pictures are available from our Cleveland friend Mike Pirnat [ here].

September 14 2005

The first MichiPUG meeting.  A healthy number of about 10 people showed up.  Presentations given were:
 * A quick Getting To Know You (who are you, where do you work, how do you use Python)
 * Random and Dynamic Images Using Python CGI by Steve Kryskalla
   * Slides and other material available online [ here].
 * TurboGears Web Megaframework by Kevin Dangoor