Videos! For "Platonic Solids of Quality" and "Functional Programming and Django QuerySets"

I've been remiss in posting my videos.  The last two talks went really well

- Platonic Solids of Quality

As people who produce awesome stuff, there are a lot of tools we can use to work less and simplify our workflow. This talk introduces many techniques from Agile Testing and other sources so we can all do more things faster.

- Functional Programming and Django QuerySets

This talk is a quick overview of Python iterators and why to use them, then combining iterators in Functional Programming (vs procedural and object oriented programming). Lastly I show how to use these ideas in order to better understand and test Django QuerySets.

I have another talk video somewhere, but it's about using Selenium for testing and thus has rather a bit of profanity in it.  No link.

Thanks to Don Westland for recording-editing these for me!

talk: Functional Programming and Django QuerySets

thanks everyone for coming, for Media Temple for hosting, and for Esther for coordinating! I thought Justin's talk (his first!) on Swagger was fun and extremely useful. I hope everyone had a good time.

Here are the slides and notes for "Functional Programming and Django QuerySets" (2016 edition) -- have fun! http://johntellsall.github.io/johntellsall.com/class/django-queryset3/_build/

talk: Functional Programming and Django QuerySets soon!

I'll be speaking at the next SoCal Python meetup! http://www.meetup.com/socalpython/events/230329648/ If you want to go, sign up soon, there are only a few spots left.

This talk is mostly about Functional Programming in the Python world.  FP is great for testing, but it can be a bit mysterious at times. I highlight the awesomeness of FP, the dangerous bit, and how it is related to Django QuerySets.

I've given this talk a few times, and people always get excited about it. FP is not magic!  It's a clean and graceful way to write code.

Here's a link with my previous version's slides, notes, and other references: http://johntellsall.blogspot.com/2014/05/talk-functional-programming-and-django.html

Each time I give a talk I change it up a little or a lot. This time I'll probably add more cat photos.