PyCaribbean 2016

Steve Dower February 29, 2016 Feb 29, 2016 02/29/16

Last week I attended the first ever PyCaribbean conference, organised by the local community and held in Santo Domingo, the capital city of the Dominican Republic. Conferences like PyCaribbean are an opportunity for Python developers and enthusiasts to come together and meet, network, discuss, and generally enjoy being part of a global ...

Microsoft and Project Jupyter

Christopher Wilcox February 23, 2016 Feb 23, 2016 02/23/16

Jupyter, formerly IPython, is more than just an execution environment for  Python, R, and many other languages. With code, markdown, inline graphics, and more features, it provides a convenient, browser-based canvas for prototyping, collaborating, and sharing ideas. This environment has been embraced by the community and for good reason...

Talking with Python: Fabrikam Pizza Shack

Steve Dower February 15, 2016 Feb 15, 2016 02/15/16

Today, we're going to start the next multi-million-dollar pizza chain. You might think that the first thing we need to make pizza is a pizza oven and the ability to make toast without burning it, but who ever became a millionaire by following the "conventional" approach? Instead, we're going to start with the ordering system. The days when ...

Welcome to the Python Engineering blog

Steve Dower February 12, 2016 Feb 12, 2016 02/12/16

Welcome! We here on the Python team at Microsoft are starting a blog. And since this is the first post, we wanted to give a bit of an introduction of who we are, what we do, and what this blog is for. Microsoft has a Python team? Yes, we do! We are part of the Data Group in Azure, the same group that brings you SQL Server, Azure ML Studio ...