[Wylug-discuss] West. Yorks Python Group - Thurs. 9 May - Tornado

[Peter Russell]

== West Yorkshire Python User Group Meeting - Thurs. 9 May ==

= Invited Talk: Wes Mason - Stormy Webber - Tornado for everyone =

This month we have another invited guest speaker!

= About the Talk =

An introductory talk to building fast non-blocking async web services
with Tornado, especially relevant to Django, Flask, bottle, web.py,
Pyramid, Zope, Gevent, Twisted and every other web (or not) dev
interested in learning what makes Tornado special for such tasks.

This will be especially relevant to Django, Flask, bottle, web.py,
Pyramid, Zope, Gevent, Twisted and every other web (or not) dev
interested in learning what makes Tornado special for such tasks.

Bonus: advanced tips and tricks for migrating from current systems and
working with technologies such as WebSockets and Server Sent Events in
Tornado.

Bonus bonus: Tornado 3 and Python 3.4 style futures for less confusing async.

= About the Speaker =

Wes is a polyglot developer with over 15 years of experience
programming large scale networked applications.

He currently works as a product engineer for Server Density, curates
PHP Weekly from his sofa, releases lots of open source goodness via
the Internets, and lives in Yorkshire, England with wife and
mischievous 2 year old son.

Wes is @1stvamp on Twitter.

= Date and Time =

Thursday 11 April. Talk at 7.30. The venue will be open from about
6.30. We will be finished by 9, and we will be going to the pub
afterwards.

= Location =

We will be meeting at the offices of The Test People:

Floor 3
Albion Court
Albion Place
Leeds
West Yorkshire,
LS1 6JL

You will need to call Peter on 07763570860 for access, as we can't
hear the buzzer at the door.

= About the Group =

The West Yorkshire Python User Group (WYPy) have been meeting monthly
since 2007. Our meetings are free, and usually include at least one
talk, as well as a trip to the pub.

Our website is at http://wypy.org.uk . We discuss our meetings on the
Python Yorkshire and Humberside Google Group
http://groups.google.com/group/python-yorks-humber/ and you can also
follow us on Twitter at @WYPython.