Liveblogging Pycon (Day 2)

February 25th, 2006 § 0 comments

Ahh, the sec­ond day. The more “offi­cial” start of Pycon. The day is going to be bro­ken into a long series of small talks, start­ing with a keynote.

Keynote notes:

AMK had some thank you notes and other things — big shout outs to him for orga­niz­ing things. Then, the Plone guys started their keynote. Plone is a CMS sys­tem — with a lot of high rolling cus­tomers. The keynote itself is not tech­ni­cal (at all). Mainly just a “hey these are our cus­tomer guys”.

I skipped out on the rest of the Plone keynote — it’s just not my space. Now for the smaller, more intense meet­ings, yay!

My plan is to hit:

  • Python can sur­vive in the enterprise
    • Done by AGI (Amer­i­can Greet­ings interactive)
    • A nice talk over­all, a lot of case study infor­ma­tion about the scal­a­bil­ity of python in their implementations
  • The State of Dabo
    • UI stuff, again! Looks good for SAP/Enterprise report­ing stuff. Maybe fast desk­top appli­ca­tions con­nect­ing to a DB
  • Guido on the ori­gins of Python (lunch time talk)
    • This talk was actu­ally very inter­est­ing. A lot of stuff was cov­ered by Guido about where Python came from, which was excellent.
  • PyPars­ing — recur­sive descent parser
    • I never quite under­stood the entire grammar/parsing con­cept until now. I just added yet another to/do/learn task to my list. If a test case is a seris of atomic actions, why not build up the actions and allow qa peo­ple to describe test instead of writ­ing the test if you have the libraries? Etc. Nice talk
  • tur­bo­gears howto
  • OSH dis­cus­sion (held by a coworker)
    • Since I already knew the mate­r­ial, no sur­prises, but I think jack made some converts.

All together, Fri­day was use­ful, but not overly so. I just have a prob­lem with the fact that unless you’re a GUI or WebApp devel­oper, for the most part, you’re out of luck. The Twisted tuto­r­ial is prob­a­bly the most use­ful thing I’ve seen so far.

We’ll see how day 3 works out.

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