Join Doug Farrell and me as we discuss his career and what he's up to at Shutterfly.

You'll learn about the Python stack he's using to work with, not just bits and bytes,

but physical devices on a production line for creating all sorts of picturesque items.

You'll also hear how both he and I feel it's a great time to be a developer,

even if you're on the older side of, say, 30, 40, or beyond.

This is Talk Python to Me, episode 182 recorded October 4th, 2018.

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they're offering during their segments. It really helps support the show. Doug, welcome to Talk Python.

Thank you very much, Michael. I'm glad to be here. Yeah, I'm glad to have you here. It's great. We've been interacting on email and on social media and stuff.

I've talked about some of the articles you've written before and you've sent in recommendations

and various things for us.

So it's nice to finally have you here.

Yeah, I'd like to drop notes to you and Brian on the Python Bites podcast about the articles

that I've written in Real Python, the site.

Yeah, there are definitely some good ones. And I want to dig into some of those, actually,

as we get further into the show. But let's start with your story about how you got into programming

in Python. Well, I actually got started pretty late. I was probably in my late 20s by the time

I got into programming back in the early 80s,

late 70s, early 80s.

I had failed at Fortran years before the first time I went to college, mostly because

back then it was all punch cards and having to go down to the dungeon to hand it to over

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