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 […]
February 20, 2010 by
Mike The third session only was only two talks long. I decided to check out Ecommerce in Python: Introduction to Satchmo and GetPaid (#144) by Christopher Johnson and Chris Moffett. My primary reason for attending this talk is because I've thought that opening an online store sounds really interesting and I might be able to use […]
February 19, 2010 by
Mike For Session 2, I decided to volunteer as a Session Chair, which means that I basically would introduce the speakers and try to keep them from talking too long. My first speaker was Tarek Ziade and he spoke on The State of Packaging. He spoke mostly about distutils, setuptools (easy_install) and pip during the first […]
February 19, 2010 by
Mike I went to three sessions in the morning: Building Leafy Chat, A Short Pinax Tutorial and Import This, that and the other thing: custom importers. If you're interested, you can read on to see what I thought.
