Miguel Grinberg

Let’s Build a Web Application!

Date: This event took place live on January 27 2015

Presented by: Miguel Grinberg

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

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Description:

Watch the webcast recording

In this live coding session you will watch Miguel Grinberg build a web application from scratch using Flask, the Python micro-framework. Topics that will be covered in this presentation include:

  • Installing Flask
  • Using Jinja2 templates
  • Handling web forms
  • Creating a REST API

At the end of the session the complete application will be pushed to a GitHub repository, so that you can experiment with it on your own.

About Miguel Grinberg

Miguel Grinberg has over 25 years of experience as a software engineer. In his current position at Rackspace he spends most of his time contributing to open source projects in the OpenStack ecosystem. He blogs at https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com about a variety of topics including web development, robotics, photography, and the occasional movie review. Miguel lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, four kids, two dogs, and a cat.