back home from pycon

made it back home yesterday with only a 45 minute delay after nearly getting stuck in san antonio because of bad weather in austin.
i hung out in the bazaar/olpc sprint room monday. i’m pretty new to bazaar and wasn’t really able to contribute anything but i spent the time familiarizing myself with the code [...]

pycon 2008 - day 3

the first keynote address was really good, calling for an easier way of getting a standardized python distribution on windows to make it easier to distribute single python scripts. the second keynote address, snake charming the dragon, was also good but dragged on a little too long with perhaps too much detail. mark [...]

pycon 2008 - day 2

some of the keynotes from this morning were great. others, less than exciting - informative at best. i used the time to check out allmydata.org’s tahoe distributed filesystem, connecting to an ad-hoc p2p network started by other pycon participants. cool stuff. i haven’t quite figured out how to replicate data from [...]

pycon 2008 - day 1

day 1 of pycon 2008 is wrapping up.  i’d say it turned out pretty well.  aside from wireless issues and some minor registration problems everything seemed to run smoothly and on schedule.
all of the talks i attended were interesting:

buffer interface in py3k - nice idea - might have some use for this for parsing binary [...]