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You Belong with Me: Scraping Taylor Swift Lyrics with Python and Celery
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You Belong with Me: Scraping Taylor Swift Lyrics with Python and Celery
Mark Lavin & Rebecca Conley

This talk will demonstrate an example application of using Celery to extract all of the lyrics of the inspiring and influential Taylor Swift from the Internet. Using a light-hearted approach and practical Python examples, we aim to teach people the basics of using Celery for data extraction.

PyDate Carolinas 2016
September 16, 2016
Developer Fitness
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Developer Fitness
Mark Lavin

Python Nordeste 2016 Keynote

Python Nordeste
June 10, 2016
Intro to Client-Side Testing
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Intro to Client-Side Testing
Mark Lavin

You've just built a REST API and client-side application to consume it. Now how do you test it? This talk looks at some of the tools available to test this style of application.

DjangoCon 2015
September 24, 2015
Django Authors Panel
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Django Authors Panel
Mark Lavin

An authors panel featuring Mark Lavin, Andrew Pinkham, Buddy Lindsey, Peter Baumgartner, Rikki Endsley and Tracy Osborn

DjangoCon 2015
September 22, 2015
REST: It’s not just for servers
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REST: It’s not just for servers
Mark Lavin

This talk examines some of the challenges of building a REST client, describes some best practices and some patterns to avoid, and discusses how we can all work to build better APIs for an open web

DjangoCon 2014
September 4, 2014
Anatomy of a Django Project
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Anatomy of a Django Project
Mark Lavin

Websites built with Django are built on "projects" composed of one or more "apps". But what is a project really? This talk dissects a Django project to understand which pieces are convention and which are required.

DjangoCon 2014
September 2, 2014

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Lightweight Django

Julia Elman & Mark Lavin

A guide for intermediate Django users to hone their skills.

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Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging

Karen Tracey

A Django classic text on debugging that still holds true today.

Purchase from Packt Publishing