I'll update this as the day progresses at PyCon 2010. ————— 1727: Debating whether to attend the lightning talks, or have dinner now and hack Django tonight. Django coding wins. 1655: Testing and Testability. "Testability is as important as all the other -ilities." Testable code is better code - better design, etc. Better tests are … Continue reading PyCon 2010, day 2 →

I'll update this as the day progresses at PyCon 2010. ————— 1743: Lightning talks. Some sophomoric obscene humor is on display in one of the talks. 1655: Scaling your Python Application on EC2. Reddit's move to EC2. They run 16 Python applications per server, two per core. 256 virtual CPUs, 432 GB of RAM. Problems … Continue reading PyCon 2010, day 1 →

I'll update this as the day progresses at PyCon 2010. ————— 1634: It's just dawned on me that Jacob has as much energy at 4:30 pm as he does at 9:00 am. Yeow. 1620: Linux-HA for redundancy at the very front-end. 1605: Database redundancy via connection middleware. The next release of PostgreSQL will have built-in … Continue reading PyCon Tutorials, day 2, Liveblog →

I'll update this as the day progresses at PyCon 2010. ————— 1623: We're done. This tutorial was at a more beginner level than I had expected. It was probably just right for some, maybe even a majority, of the audience. But some topics (e.g., the "base" template and settings files, how to change your site's … Continue reading PyCon Tutorials, day 1, Liveblog →

I'm settled in my room for PyCon 2010. Tomorrow's the first day of tutorials. Just had a great dinner, albeit by myself, and now I'll do some Django work for a couple hours before turning in. I've got some Merlot within, so, my coding skills might be stunted.

Tuesday, I leave for a week of PyCon 2010 in Atlanta. I'll liveblog and tweet (using the #pycon hashtag) from the conference. I expect to gravitate toward talks about the innards-of-Python, packaging, and deployment tools & techniques. We'll see.

For my travel to PyCon 2010, I have three choices. Fly. Total round-trip is ten hours and $480, nonstop. I'll know what it's like to be a cow in a slaughterhouse. Bus. Total is five days and $245, with many stops. I'll go insane. Train. Total round-trip is eight days and $585, with many stops. … Continue reading Traveling to PyCon 2010 →

I was planning to write each day about PyCon, but as you see, I didn't. Too busy, too tired, too distracted, or just too forgetful. So here are my summary PyCon 2009 reflections. I'm penning this mid-morning, two hours before the conference's formal talks end. This is my second PyCon. I stayed at the Hyatt Regency. … Continue reading PyCon 2009 reflections →

Technology shift noted: At last year's PyCon, a conference IRC channel was used for informal backchannel communications. This year, Twitter and IRC are both in use. The split is about 30/70 Twitter/IRC. This might change once the conference proper starts. In the morning, Python 401: Some Advanced Topics. Yeow, a fire hose talk, more information … Continue reading PyCon 2009: Tutorials, Day 2 →

In the morning, Introduction to the Google App Engine. PyCon-supplied Wi-fi bandwidth is excellent in the public areas. Talk was great, lunch food was great. In the afternoon, Eggs and Buildout Development. This is great, it's like drinking from a firehose. Everything you wanted to know about virtualenv, distutils, setuptools, and buildout. Tonight, I had … Continue reading PyCon 2009: Tutorials, Day 1 →