February 21, 2010 by
Mike PyCon 2010 continued the practice of Open Spaces (if you don't know what those are, click here). I really enjoyed the Open Space track last year and greatly looked forward to it this year. Unfortunately, I only managed to get to one and that was the wxPython BoF that I had posted on the board. […]
February 20, 2010 by
Mike I only attended one of the two talks in the last session of the day. It was presented by Ms. Leigh Honeywell and called Think Globally, Hack Locally - Teaching Python in Your Community. She started "Python Newbie Night" in Toronto, Canada. It was an informal, peer-taught class which often put code up on the […]
February 20, 2010 by
Mike I managed to make it to three talks in the middle session. Here's the list: "508 and You: Taking the Pain out of Accessibility" with Katie Cunningham, "Actors: What, Why, and How" with Donovan Preston and "Python Metaprogramming" with Nicolas Lara. I'll see you after the jump!
February 20, 2010 by
Mike For the morning session, I went to "Decorators From Basics to Class Decorators to Decorator Libraries" and "Interfaces, Adapters and Factories", which were in the first and second sections. I skipped all the middle talks as I just didn't see anything that I thought sounded interesting. Unfortunately, Open Space was almost completely under-utilized during the […]
February 20, 2010 by
Mike After the technical difficulties that ended the Lightning talks this morning, Van Lindberg got up and stalled for time while they got it fixed so he could introduce the first plenary. He did a really good job and let us know that this PyCon had set two records: First, it has the largest attendance ever […]
February 20, 2010 by
Mike On Saturday morning, PyCon hosted some Lightning Talks for about half an hour. Here are the topics and authors (when I caught their names): Joseph Tate - A web anti-pattern Securing Python Package Management – Justin Samuel The State of Crypto in Python – Geremy Condra Haystack for Django, has custom search, includes tests and […]
