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ACCU Friday

Well we made it back to Indiana last night after about 12 hours of blissfully uneventful travel. Friday at ACCU/PyUK was fairly interesting, although not as “darn cool” as the Nokia presentation Thursday.

ACCU Keynote, Day 2

This morning’s keynote wasn’t nearly as interesting as Bjarne’s yesterday. I say this even though I have little desire to code in C++; I still enjoyed Bjarne’s keynote from a purly theortical perspective.
Jim Coplien gave a talk entitled “The Curse of Symmetry”, but I’ll be damned if I could figure out exactly [...]

London Calling

So today was my first day at PyUK, which is being presented as part of the ACCU Conference. The day opened with a keynote on improving generic programming from Bjarne Stroustrup (of C++ fame). Bjarne’s presentation centered around the development of a concept he referred to as “Concepts”. Concepts attempt to completely [...]

Mr. CC Goes to Washington… and Oxford

It’s time for that annual rite of Python: PyCon. Once again scheduled for late March in Washington, DC, this year I’ll be pulling out two dogs and ponies (or is it one of each?). First, and most importantly in my mind, I’ll be presenting on our experiences developing ccPublisher and ccLookup. More [...]

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