David Baumgold on Flask-Dance, WebhookDB and Open EdX

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• Date of recording – 2015-06-02
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Interview with David Baumgold

• Introduction
• How did you get introduced to Python?
• What problem does Flask-Dance solve that wasn’t covered by other libraries?
• What were some of the technical issues that you encountered while building Flask-Dance?
• What are some of the design considerations that you had when building Flask-Dance?
• You also built webhookdb for replicating GitHub’s information to be queryable. What are some use cases for which you would want to do that?
• What is Open EdX and what is its intended audience?
• What are some of the challenges implementing a system like Open EdX, and what can Python developers learn from the implementation of the project?

Picks

• Tobias
  • Evil mode
  • Forgotify
  • Wolf of Wall Street
  • pipreqs



• Chris
  • Dark Horse Brewing – “Smells Like a Safety Meeting”
  • Medium
  • Modern Gnu Emacs



• David
  • Homebrewhttps://open.edx.org/ for OSX
  • Homebrew Cask
  • Arrow
  • Moment.js
  • The Imitation Game

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