PyClass Meeting 1 at Noisebridge: Setup, Decorators and web2py

The free Python class (PyClass) at Noisebridge has rebooted and is being taught by Elizabeth Leddy (@eleddy) and Daniel Nowak (@kellankade), who are awesome.  For once I have time in the evening to show up!!!  I'm really stoked about this as I have been wanting to learn python for awhile but just never got around to it.  I plan on making this the first in a series of (weekly-ish) posts where I record the items we discussed.   Getting to it,  this week we covered basic setup, simple hello world, operators, decorators and the web2py framework.

I wont go into setting up Python on OS X because it is pretty straight foward.  One thing to note though is that, although python is already installed, it was suggested that we install a custom version from python.org.  Apparently, as with most of the preinstalled Apple items, much of the functionality was ripped out or tweaked.

holy zshhhh

I have been a bash user for years now and have loved every second of it.  Recently I was told by a friend on teh google plus that zsh > bash.  Could it be? Could something replace my beloved bash? It seems the answer is yes.  After some searching I found a couple of reasons to go with zsh.

Reason 1:

In glorious picture form.

Which just saved my butt today and I am sure will save my butt in the future.

Exploratry Parsing

A great parsing article by Ward Cunningham Exploratory Parsing.