Any unemployed Python developers in the Cape?

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Any Python developers in Cape Town area looking for permanent work? An agency I know is urgently trying to fill posts they have on their books and it seems there are no unemployed Python guys right now.

She just phoned me (again) trying to get some names of developers - I thought I knew a couple of unemployed ones but they all seem to be working again :)

PM me and I will forward you her details as this is a public forum. Oh, I get nothing in return so no incentive for me just that I know its all word of mouth in IT.
 
If you can code anything and dont have work in cape town then there is something really wrong
 
Brad8711 said:
If you can code anything and dont have work in cape town then there is something really wrong
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Well the recession hit a lot of dev houses last year and I heard of guys loosing jobs on a weekly basis, nothing to do with skill at the moment. If there are no jobs, then there are no jobs.
 
Ye, I hear what you saying, I didn't have a job for a bit last year, although due to my own decisions, Everyone that I speak to here just can't get enough people to employ. Funny how quickly it turned around then, guess thats how it goes hey :)
 
Interesting...

Been a developer for 7+ years, mostly Python, and leaving my current job at the end of this month, by choice. (Current company is slowly moving towards a C#/VB shop and I have no interest in becoming a full time .Net developer).

The problem is, I'm leaving my current job before having another one line up because I would like to enhance certain skills (eg. HTML/JS, as most of my experience are on writing back-end stuff) by doing some small personal projects. (and probably doing some other stuff I never get time for)

Good to hear there are a demand for Python devs ... @OP: might give you a PM in a couple of months time ;-)

ps: luckily I have planned/saved for my work "hiatus"


edit: sorry for my post being a bit OT
 
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What does Python get used for in professional development circles?
 
Ancalagon said:
What does Python get used for in professional development circles?
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Ask NASA and Google for one :)

I know a couple of hot-stuff Py developers and they work on interesting projects. Everything from small websites up to performance critical backends. In our company we use Python whenever we feel its the best tool for the job.

Personally I'm tempted to move into Python myself over the next two years.
 
Oh.

I investigated it for a personal 3D development project I've recently started. There are two major 3D game engines written in C++ that are wrapped in Python. Both free to use and make commercial software from - Panda3D and Python-Ogre. Anyway, I rejected it because Python's performance is extremely bad unless you use Psyco or Cython, which come with their own problems. So, I decided on a Java 3D engine, jMonkeyEngine3.

It also cant use true multithreading because of the necessity of the GIL, which for modern games can be a bit of a problem. Not that my game will be complex enough to need it, but I would think networking, for instance, would benefit by running on its own thread as long as it was synchronized properly. Although in truth I havent got to that point of the game development yet to find out if it is done on its own thread.
 
Ancalagon said:
What does Python get used for in professional development circles?
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Personally I have used Python to develop mostly back-end stuff... from a framework to fill in PDF doc/forms to EFT Card Payment middle-ware to a VSAT multicast software distribution system..... So it's a pretty versatile language.
 
We mostly just use python for our build scripts, always just thought of it as a utility language, and not a hard core dev language, but oh well :)
 
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