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 […]
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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.
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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
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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
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In the afternoon of the first day of the official PyCon conference days (Friday, 3/11/2011), I went to a panel about teaching Python in Schools. It was led by Zac Miller who was the one who came up with doing the panel in the first place. He introduced Brian Brumley who went through what he
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I started out my morning session by attending Michael Foord’s Mock talk, but due to my green room volunteering position, I had to leave early. We were having some behind-the-scenes issues that needed to be taken care of. Alas! Anyway, I ended up skipping most of that, but I made it to another Python luminary:
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Introduction with Van The Official Python Conference days started today, Friday, March 11th, 2011. Van Lindberg started things off with an introductory speech. He spent some time thanking donors and explaining how the rooms would be split up. Then he gave out some door prizes, which appeared to be Python programming books. Steve Holden’s Plenary
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I attended the Creating GUI Applications in Python using Qt I by Paul Kippes this morning and then I attended half of his second tutorial on PyQt this afternoon. The speaker had lots of materials to give us including fairly extensive examples. I think I learned a lot during the morning session because I had
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My first tutorial of the day was Advanced Python I with Raymond Hettinger. He is very knowledgeable, but I got stuck in the very back of the room and had a terrible time following him. The speaker went over a bunch of basics of IDLE with Python 3.2. He covered how to open a module
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A couple months ago, I told my readership that my organization wasn’t going to pay my way to PyCon and wondered if they would help me. I got mixed results and dropped that idea. Then my boss said he was going to try to make it so I could go and he did. So I
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The PyCon USA 2011 site has finally gotten its schedule up this week and in the last couple of days, they have added the ability to sign up to be a Session Chair or Session Runner. These are fairly important roles that need to be filled to make the conference flow smoothly. Basically, a Session
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As PyCon approaches, the blogger community was invited to interview the speakers that are coming to the event. I chose Wesley Chun, writer of Core Python Programming and co-author of Python Web Development with Django. In this interview, I ask Wesley about his talk, Running Django Apps on Google App Engine and about PyCon in
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PyCon USA 2011 is less than a month away! This year, they are promoting the use of Convore as a PyCon aggregator of sorts. I guess that means that the cool DjangoDose from last year is dead now. Anyway, Convore is similar to Twitter, but it has the concepts of Topics, so it’s a little
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I didn’t really have much time last year to check out the first PyCon Poster session, but this year I’ll have the time to really check it out. The last I heard, there will be 35 posters at this year’s session and they have some pretty amazing topics. Here’s a sampling: Using a Kinect to
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Did you know that PyCon’s Early Bird registration is over and you missed it! Well, now you have to pay more! I recommend doing it now before they reach their registration cap because sneaking into the conference is just plain wrong. Also, airline ticket pricing tends to fluctuate more than the waves at the seaside,
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