My slides and paper from PyCon 2006 are now online. You can find them here ; feel free to comment or offer suggestions, resources, etc in the yiki.
Category Archives: conf
PyCon Day 1
Friday was the first full day of talks at PyCon. There were tutorials yesterday, which I did not attend, but which seem to be receiving positive reviews. The morning opened with a keynote by Alexander Limi and Alan Runyan of Plone fame. Not an incredibly technical talk, but interesting to hear how [...]
PyCon Day 2: The Middle Child
The second day of PyCon started with Guido’s annual State of Python keynote, during which he described some new developments in the Python universe, and things that will be going into Python 2.5. The most interesting new feature to me is the new conditional expression, which will take the format
EXPR1 if COND else EXPR2
Unlike [...]
PyCon Day 3: Winding Down
Sunday, the third day of PyCon 2006, definitely felt like the day of rest. People had started to trickle out, and the day had a shorter schedule that the preceeding two days. Which was fine since I was dragging from the night before. The day opened with an anti-keynote: an interview with [...]
Zope Sprint Reflections
So I’m more than a little behind on my PyCon wrap up posts, so I’ll start at the end, with the Zope Sprint. This year the sprints moved from pre-conference to post-conference, the idea being that people might have ideas during the conference that they would want to work on at the sprints. [...]
