PyCon 2011 (USA) is over. But a lot of people wrote articles about it. So in case you missed the action, you can check out a few of the articles about what happened. If you don't see your favorite PyCon-related article here, let me know in the comments. The Superboard Takes Pycon! Ten Tips for […]
On Sunday, March 13th, the final official PyCon conference day occurred (there were sprint days that followed, of course). Anyway, they had three interesting plenaries to help lead us into that day's talks. Read on to find out what they were about. The Threadless Plenary Chris McAvoy, VP of Technology at Threadless in Chicago gave […]
Sunday (March 13th) started off with Daylight Savings Times messing with our heads. We lost an hour of sleep from the night before. Anyway, the conference day itself began with Lightning Talks at 8:30 a.m. There were only four of them, but here you go: A fellow named Fecundo Batista spoke on PyAr, the Argentina […]
The venerated TiP BoF (Testing in Python "Birds of a Feather") meeting was held Saturday (3/12/2011) night around 7 p.m. Disney provided free pizza and salads. Someone else (I think) provided some pop. The room was packed with standing room only in the back. While people were eating, Terry Peppers of Leapfrog led the meeting. […]
The Dropbox Plenary The Saturday plenaries on 3/12/2011 started off with an engineer from Dropbox who gave a talk entitled "How Dropbox Did It and How Python Helped" with Rian Hunter. He started by telling us of the technical difficulties that Dropbox had to overcome. He told us that everything they wrote was done in […]
On Saturday, March 12th, kicked off with Lightning Talks at 8:30 in the morning! Alfredo Deza started the session with a talk on chapa.vim. Next up was Dean Hall talking about Python on a Chip. He mentioned the PyMite project and a port of Python to DryOS which allows Python to run on Canon DSLR […]
