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PyCon 2010: Saturday Session 3 (late afternoon) – Think Globally, Hack Locally

I only attended one of the two talks in the last session of the day. It was presented by Ms. Leigh Honeywell and called Think Globally, Hack Locally – Teaching Python in Your Community. She started “Python Newbie Night” in Toronto, Canada. It was an informal, peer-taught class which often put code up on the

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PyCon 2010: Saturday Session 1 (morning)

For the morning session, I went to “Decorators From Basics to Class Decorators to Decorator Libraries” and “Interfaces, Adapters and Factories”, which were in the first and second sections. I skipped all the middle talks as I just didn’t see anything that I thought sounded interesting. Unfortunately, Open Space was almost completely under-utilized during the

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PyCon 2010: Saturday Plenaries (Dino Viehland, Maciej Fijalkowski and Mark Shuttleworth!)

After the technical difficulties that ended the Lightning talks this morning, Van Lindberg got up and stalled for time while they got it fixed so he could introduce the first plenary. He did a really good job and let us know that this PyCon had set two records: First, it has the largest attendance ever

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PyCon 2010: Saturday – Morning Lightning Talks

On Saturday morning, PyCon hosted some Lightning Talks for about half an hour. Here are the topics and authors (when I caught their names): Joseph Tate – A web anti-pattern Securing Python Package Management – Justin Samuel The State of Crypto in Python – Geremy Condra Haystack for Django, has custom search, includes tests and

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