A live blog of the day. 1750: Back in my hotel room. Going to get dinner in the hotel, then decide what to do. Might chill early — must pace myself... 1722: End of the formal sessions. Now there are lightning talks, BOF sessions, and I'm wondering how long keep going before calling it a … Continue reading PyCon 2011, Day 1 →

A liveblog of the day. 1316: Documenting Your Project with Sphinx. I could read the docs, but I like being spoon fed. This tutorial's a little more basic than what I was looking for. Still useful, though. 0828: Warming up the matter/anti-matter warp cores. Settled in for Python/Django Deployment Workshop. JKM is presenting, and he's … Continue reading PyCon 2011 Tutorial Day 2 →

A liveblog of the day... 13:12: Getting set for Advanced Python II. Unicode, the broccoli of my world. 0845: Settled in for Advanced Python I. Minor network glitch when I forgot to disable my static IP address, which our home network backups need. Wow this talk was excellent. This year I'm monitoring only the Twitter … Continue reading PyCon 2011 Tutorial Day 1 →

It's been interesting. The busses got nicer the closer i got to Atlanta. From Minneapolis on, they were the new Greyhound busses with 110 V power and wi-fi. My fellow passengers were ruder the closer I got to Atlanta. And more slovenly. A shallower slope, but the drivers' quickness to irritability increased the more I traveled … Continue reading PyCon 2011 bus trip →

Tonight, I leave for the bus station, to travel for 2+ days by bus for a week of PyCon 2011 in Atlanta. I’ll liveblog and tweet (using the #pycon hashtag) my bus ride through America's heartland, and then from the conference. "Kathy," I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh "Michigan seems like a dream to … Continue reading PyCon 2011! →

I intensely dislike how airline travel is conducted in the US. The TSA's procedures and behaviour, add-on fees, in-flight comfort minimization... Bah. In getting to & from PyCon 2011, I've decided to try traveling by Greyhound Bus. Seattle to Atlanta round trip is $245, and 2.5 days each way. That's about $100 cheaper, two more … Continue reading PyCon 2011 by bus! →

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Update: Some videos are available only as Ogg Vorbis downloads, while others play in the blip.tv screen control. The Continuous Integration talk was just put up. Update: The blip.tv page seems to be videos from all PyCons. There's no way to search, or filter to narrow down to PyCon 2010. That's stupid. I'll update again … Continue reading PyCon 2010 videos →

I'll update this as the day progresses at PyCon 2010. ————— 1518: Boy, the wireless network here done wonders for my, uh, e-mail connectivity. 1512: A hot button of mine: I learned to pronounce it, "LAY-tech", not, "LAH-tech." 1509: Please Pirate manifesto! Brilliant lightning talk! And it has a blog. 1433: We're ending with more lightning … Continue reading PyCon 2010, last day →