PyCon Wrapup
I look forward to PyCon every year. It’s a gathering of smart, capable, motivated and friendly people. It’s also the best run conference I’ve been too. Amazing work by a dedicated group of volunteers. Thanks everyone! I recommend checking out Ted Leung’s photos of PyCon 2009.
Tutorials
There were many excellent looking tutorials at PyCon this year. I missed them all, but they were recorded, and should appear online soon.
This year I gave my first tutorial, with Hogler Krekel. We collaborated on a pair of tutorials on the py.test testing framework. Thanks to all the SeaPIG members who came to an early version of this tutorial, your feedback improved it greatly.
- py.test I - rapid testing with minimal effort
- py.test I - slides and code
- py.test II - cross-platform and distributed testing
- py.test II - slides
My talk
I also gave my first solo talk at PyCon: How I Distribute Python applications on Windows - py2exe & InnoSetup. Slides and example code are posted there. It seems like it was well received and I heard several nice comments about it.
Talks
I enjoyed the talks I saw, but I spent nearly all of my time at the Open Spaces or in the hallway track. There were quite a few talks I wanted to see, but missed.
Open spaces
The Open Spaces were fantastic this year. On Saturday in particular, there were about half a dozen talks, BOFs and conversations running all day. The Testing In Python BOF session in the evening was amazing. It was a pizza and beer powered mini-conference. Lightning talks and alcohol are a perfect match.
Hallway track
The hallway track is always the best part of any conference. :) This year was no exception. Thanks for all the great conversations everyone. A big thanks to the video volunteers as well - knowing that talks will be online later allowed me to relax.
Sprints
At the time of writing I’m still at the sprints. So far, I’ve been working a bit with other folks, and a bit on some of my own small projects.
- py.test plugin - figleaf - trace code coverage of your unit tests
- setup this blog
- py.test plugin - resultdb - save the results of each test run to a local sqlite database
- a bit of hacking on Noonhat.
I’m already looking forward to next year!
I’m also trying to convince myself that I can somehow afford to go to EuroPython. Anyone up for sponsoring my airfare? I’ll sprint on whatever you’d like. ;)
