Brandon Rhodes

Talks

You can either browse my full list of recorded talks, or else jump to the description of a particular talk using one of the links below:

2017 December 2	Animating with ASCII
2017 October 21	Keynote: You look at it till a solution occurs
2017 May 20	The Dictionary Even Mightier
2016 November 13	Using Python to power Selenium at scale
2016 October 21	Plone Conference Keynote: Python Web Technologies
2016 September 16	PyCon UK Keynote: Python and the Glories of the UNIX Tradition
2016 February 20	PyCaribbean Keynote: When Languages Meet
2016 January 13	The design of the ‘Assay’ testing framework
2015 May 26	Keynote: Stopping to Sharpen Your Tools
2015 May 25	Hoisting Your I/O
2015 April 19	Oh, Come On. Who Needs Bytearrays?
2014 October 12	Keynote: Building the Medieval Universe
2014 September 4	Keynote: Django, a Data Shovel With a Future
2014 August 17	Keynote: How To Shut Down Tolkien
2014 July 27	The Clean Architecture in Python
2014 July 26	Watch your Python script with strace
2014 April 13	The Day of the EXE Is Upon Us
2014 April 11	All Your Ducks In A Row: Data Structures in the Standard Library and Beyond
2014 February 8	Keynote: Moving Targets
2013 August 10	Skyfield and 15 Years of Bad APIs
2013 July 27	Keynote: Sine Qua Nons
2013 May 15	Keynote: Copernican Refactoring
2013 March 15	The Naming of Ducks: Where Dynamic Types Meet Smart Conventions
2013 January 11	Touring the Universe with Scientific Python
2012 November 10	A Python Æsthetic: Beauty and Why I Python
2012 July 29	Python Design Patterns 1
2012 March 12	Flexing SQLAlchemy's Relational Power
2012 March 11	Python, Linkers, and Virtual Memory
2011 September 24	Know Thy Database
2011 July 31	Procedures, Objects, Reusability: httplib, urllib2, and Their Discontents
2011 July 31	Names, Objects, and Plummeting From The Cliff
2011 July 30	Squinting at Python Objects
2010 February 19	Learning Hosting Best Practices From WebFaction
2010 February 19	The Mighty Dictionary
2008 March 15	Using Grok to Walk Like a Duck

Recent Writing

2018 June 16	Learning SymPy while eliminating trigonometry from rotations
2018 March 31	Computing a final Tiangong-1 pass with Python
2018 March 30	A New Driver for the Original Twiddler
2017 August 3	Fixing OpenConnect’s VPN Search Domains on Ubuntu
2016 June 9	PyCon Trivia Night, Third Edition
2015 April 16	PyCon Trivia Night, Second Edition
2014 April 29	The First-Ever PyCon Trivia Night

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Foundations of Python Network Programming

I recently revised the popular book Foundations of Python Network Programming for Apress Media, adding several chapters and updating all of its 2004 source code to use modern Python libraries and techniques. I replaced its guides to obsolete technologies (like the old HTMLParser and mod_python modules) with more modern libraries including lxml wsgiref and json.

While the code in the printed book uses Python 2 syntax, the public source code repository contains Python 3 versions of all of the examples as well (unless a library has not been ported yet). Here are links to the source code and a free sample chapter:

Public source code — includes every listing in the book
Free sample — Chapter 10, “Screen Scraping”

I am now revising the book again to produce a third edition featuring Python 3 plus a whole list of new technologies including requests and scapy!