The first talk I went to was entitled “Developing with Repoze2.Zope” by Chris P McDonough. It was a pretty interesting presentation on middleware that can re-implement ZPublisher in such a way that it allows Zope2 to run within Apache + mod_wsgi. Repoze depends on Python Paste and setuptools. If I recall correctly, he gave a […]

The first day of PyCon (not including the Tutorial Day) took place on March 14, 2008.  I finally got to see the BDFL (Benevolent Dictator For Life), Guido van Rossum. While I knew he was from the Netherlands, I hadn’t really thought of him with a Swiss-like accent. It was cool! He was mostly interesting

Tutorial Day, as the name implies, is a day where PyCon attendees get to attend tutorials on all kinds of Python topics including Django, Plone, wxPython, Python 101, SQLAlchemy , Python Eggs, Python and the OLPC and much more. According to the keynote the following day, more people attended the Tutorial Day than have attended

 This is my first post. I thought I should start writing about my Python experiences and coincidently, PyCon was just getting ready to start. So I decided to wait so I could write about something that could be truly cool. This will also be my first PyCon and my first time in Chicago. My company