Tag: PyCon

PyCon 2013


I'm attending PyCon again this year. The tutorials and the main conference. In past years, I posted commentary about the sessions I attended. I won't do that this year. Don't feel like it. Not sure why.  

PyCon, day 3


Daylight Saving Time is a gimmick and a crock and flipping stupid and I hate it. Personality cults are odd. At a conference, I see this most often in the backchannels. Like on Twitter. If Fred tweets XYZ, it probably won't be RT'd; and if it is, it'll be RT'd at most twice. But if a community … Continue reading PyCon, day 3 →

PyCon, day 1


The first day of the main conference! I'm anticipating syncing up with friends, like Andrew and Kirk. With tinges of loss and misery caused by Joe's and Ryan's absence... Great Keynote speeches. Morning is metaclasses, classes, and subclasses. Should one run away from metaclasses, or view them as just another tool?(Apologies to Edward Teller's estate.) The … Continue reading PyCon, day 1 →

PyCon tutorials, day 2


Yesterday was SQL and MongoDB. I plugged up some knowledge gaps. Goodness. Except for a Ming firehose onto which I held for dear life. Today is a "Python epiphanies" tutorial, and NLTK. More goodness.

PyCon tutorials, day 1


Up for day 1. A nice day in Santa Clara. A lime has no place in a breakfast fruit bowl. If I have anything cosmic to share, I'll do it here.

Seattle – Atlanta bus trip podcast


Rick Harding of Lococast.net and Mike Pirnat from the From Python Import Podcast interviewed me about my PyCon 2011 bus trip. Listen to it here.

PyCon 2011, Day 3


A live blog of the day.. 1611: That's all, folks! Will now figure out what to do before leaving to return home tomorrow. And I have some ideas for how to spend my time on the bus; I need to flesh those out. 1430: Lightning talks and closing remarks. 1340: Hidden Treasures in the Standard … Continue reading PyCon 2011, Day 3 →

PyCon 2011, Day 2


A live blog of the day. 1745: Lightning talks. 1645: How to kill a patent with Python. A talk directly relevant to my IP Street work. He claims that a patent's abstract and background are the most relevant for domain searches. He developed display graphs very similar to a couple of IP Street's lenses. 1545: … Continue reading PyCon 2011, Day 2 →