Tag: The business of Python
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Looking for Python podcast co-hosts
As you might know, I’m a panelist on the weekly “Freelancers Show” podcast, which talks about the business of freelancing. The good news: The same company that’s behind the Freelancers Show, Devchat.tv, is putting together a weekly podcast about Python, and I’m going to be on that, too! We’ll have a combination of discussion, interviews…
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My interview on the “Talk Python” podcast
I was delighted to appear on the popular “Talk Python to Me” podcast, run by Michael Kennedy. In the podcast, I talk about teaching, learning, and teaching Python to companies. If you’re interested in how to learn better or teach better, then I think you’ll enjoy this episode! The episode is here: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/210/making-the-most-out-of-in-person-training
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Seven ways to improve your team’s Python
If you’re a manager, then you’re always trying to find ways that’ll help your team do more in less time. That’s why you use Python — because it makes your developers more productive. They can spend more time creating new features, and less time debugging or maintaining existing code. It’s no surprise that so many…
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The “Train Better” podcast is live!
I’m a professional trainer; just about every day, I’m in a different city, country, and/or company teaching Python, data science, and other topics. Over the last few years, I’ve also thought a lot about training as a specialty — and I write about it on my “Trainer Weekly” newsletter, as well as in a “Technical…
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PyCon!
I’ll be attending PyCon 2018 in Cleveland, Ohio later this week — from Friday morning through the first day of sprints on Monday. I’m hoping to meet lots of people from the worldwide Python community — as well as readers of Linux Journal, listeners to the “Freelancers Show” podcast, people who have attended my training…
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Freelancers Show #300 — live!
As you may know, I’ve been a panelist on the Freelancers Show podcast for a few years. It’s one of the high points of my week to chat with my co-panelists, discuss various aspects of freelancing/consulting, and to interview interesting people who can help us improve our freelancing careers. I’ve been consulting since 1995, but…
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A very sad day — the end of Linux Journal
[Update, as of August 8, 2019: Since I wrote this post, Linux Journal re-opened, thanks to a generous investment/purchase, and survived for another two years… And then, earlier today, I learned that LJ has closed, once again — and this time, for good. This post is just as accurate today as it was when I…
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My interview with the Freelance Transformation podcast
My interview with Matt Inglot, on the Freelance Transformation podcast, about how technical training is a great business for many consultants, is live! If you’ve ever wanted to know about technical training, how that business works, how you can get started, or some of my strategies for working with clients, then this is your chance:…
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Shark Tank increased our traffic by 1000x. Here’s how we handled it.
More than five years ago, I started work to with a small company with a simple idea. Rent Like a Champion was founded by alumni of the University of Notre Dame, which has a very strong culture of college football games. (Note to my non-American readers: We’re talking here about American football, rather than “real”…
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The real questions to ask offshore developers
Friends of mine, who are not software developers, have a small, retail Internet business. The original developers created the application in Python, and my friends are looking for a full-stack Web/Python developer to help them. Frustrated with their inability to find someone who can commit to their project, my friends have decided to hire offshore developers, which…