I met Jacob Kaplan-Moss, shook his hand, and chatted. I may never again wash my right hand. Not only has David Beazley written the best Python reference, but he's also very friendly in person and a great presenter. My head nearly exploded in the SQLAlchemy tutorial. My laptop was a desktop-replacement in 2002, but I … Continue reading PyCon 2008 tutorial day →

I've registered for PyCon 2008.  I registered for three tutorials ("Introduction to SQLAlchemy" (Jonathan Ellis and Michael Bayer), "Generator Tricks for Systems Programmers" (David Beazley), and "Internet Programming with Python" (Wesley J. Chun), and am staying over to spend two or three days (depending on my return flight...) in a post-conference Django development sprint. I'm … Continue reading PyCon 2008 →