Simon Willison’s Weblog

mendoza-trees-workshop (via) Eventbrite Argentina has an academy program to train new Python/Django developers. I presented a workshop there this morning showing how Django and Jupyter can be used together to iterate on a project. Since the session was primarily about demonstrating Jupyter it was mostly live-coding, but the joy of Jupyter is that at the end of a workshop you can go back and add inline commentary to the notebooks that you used. In putting together the workshop I learned about the django_extensions “/manage.py shell_plus --notebook” command—it’s brilliant! It launches Jupyter in a way that lets you directly import your Django models without having to mess around with DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE.

# 8th May 2018, 5:22 pm / speaking, jupyter, tutorial, django, eventbrite

How to Get Sharp Telephoto Images. Excellent tutorial.

# 26th August 2009, 8:43 am / telephoto, photography, tutorial

Rabbits and warrens. Handy tutorial introduction to using RabbitMQ and AMQP with Python.

# 7th April 2009, 9:13 am / message-queues, queues, rabbitmq, amqp, python, tutorial

Blob Sallad—canvas tag and JavaScript physics simulation experiment. Björn Lindberg provides a detailed code walkthrough of his brilliant canvas demo, inspired by Loco Rocco.

# 26th January 2008, 12:25 pm / locorocco, javascript, canvas, opera, bjornlindberg, tutorial, physics

Two-Faced Django. Excellent Django tutorial by Will Larson that shows how to build a polling application with an interface both on the Web and in Facebook. Also touches on unit testing and Ajax using jQuery.

# 14th December 2007, 2:44 pm / ajax, jquery, javascript, django, python, tutorial, facebook, pyfacebook

How to make Ajax work for you. Slides from my three hour Ajax tutorial, presented at Web 2.0 Expo Berlin on Monday.

# 7th November 2007, 10:35 am / ajax, javascript, tutorial, web2expoberlin, speaking

Advanced Django. Slides from my hour long tutorial at PyCon UK this morning. Most of the material was adapted from OSCON, but I also added a new section covering newforms.

# 8th September 2007, 1 pm / slides, pyconuk, newforms, django, pyconuk2007, slideshare, talks, tutorial, python

Amazon EC2 Basics For Python Programmers. Detailed introduction and tutorial from James Gardner.

# 3rd September 2007, 6:20 pm / james-gardner, python, amazon, ec2, tutorial

Django and the iPhone tutorial. How to install SSH, Python and Django on your iPhone and get Django running against the call database. Less complicated than I expected.

# 21st August 2007, 11:34 am / django, iphone, tutorial, jay-baird

Thread Synchronization Mechanisms in Python. Locks, RLocks, Semaphores, Events and Conditions as explained by Fredrik Lundh.

# 29th July 2007, 9:32 pm / fredrik-lundh, effbot, locks, rlocks, threading, semaphores, events, conditions, tutorial, python

Django Master Class. Notes and slides from the OSCON tutorial I gave yesterday with Jacob Kaplan-Moss and Jeremy Dunck.

# 24th July 2007, 3:20 pm / oscon, jeremy-dunck, django, jacob-kaplan-moss, oscon07, speaking, tutorial, python

Building Brickslayer. New tutorial from Michal Wallace on building games in JavaScript using Prototype.

# 22nd July 2007, 9:28 pm / tutorial, michal-wallace, prototype, javascript, brickslayer

A Recipe for OpenID-Enabling Your Site. Detailed guide to setting your site up as an OpenID consumer from Plaxo, who just launched their OpenID implementation. It basically describes the design I’m using for the next release of django-openid.

# 18th July 2007, 7:50 am / plaxo, openid, tutorial, django, djangoopenid

More Django (likely more than is healthy). Jacob’s advanced Django tutorial from PyCon. I really like the template he’s using to present the slides and notes.

# 1st March 2007, 11:08 pm / jacob-kaplan-moss, django, pycon, tutorial, keynote

Tutorials on Microformats. Roger Costello’s 11 tutorials on microformats, covering hCard, hCalendar, hReview and more.

# 14th February 2007, 4:45 pm / microformats, tutorial

XForms in Firefox (via) Practical tutorial on taking advantage of the Firefox XForms plugin, sadly not yet bundled with the browser itself.

# 26th January 2007, 9:59 am / tutorial, xforms, firefox, xml

AJAX Debugging with Firebug. Great Firebug tutorial from creator Joe Hewitt himself. I didn’t know you could trigger profiling from your own code using console.profile() / console.profileEnd().

# 12th January 2007, 11:21 am / firebug, tutorial, joe-hewitt, drdobbs, javascript, ajax

Greasemonkey: Hacking the Web with JavaScript. Greasemonkey rocks! Here’s a simple tutorial from Michael Moncur.

# 8th January 2005, 12:38 pm / michael-moncur, javascript, greasemonkey, tutorial