25 Feb 2006 titus   » (Journeyer)

I am at...

The George Bush Python Convention '06

Lotsa "George Bush" monikers -- Sr., I think -- in Dallas. Why not the conference, too?

Miserable plane experience. Apparently some f*cker ran through security in Houston, occasioning a whole-airport shutdown & attendant delay. We came in from LAX and had to shuttle over to the Continental Express lounge area, which was packed with travellers in purgatory. To compare that place to the pits of hell would be a compliment to hell: the dull scent of despair mingled with the sweat of impatient people sweltering in underperforming air conditioning, and the relentless turmoil of people was relieved only by occasional murmurs of boarding stewardesses looking for the rest of the flight crew.

Really, it was bad.

We declined the honor and skipped back to the reservation desk, where we took a jet to DFW rather than Dallas-Love, which meant a longer cab ride but got us to the hotel pretty quickly in the end...

The tutorial, it is over!

Our Agile Development and Testing tutorial went well. We've opened up our development Web site and put up our handouts (at the bottom of the site). Comments & feedback welcome!

We'll also be presenting a "highlights of the testing tutorial" on Sunday after lunch, for those who missed the tutorial but want to see Selenium and buildbot in action.

Software that got mentioned by various people before, during, or after our tutorial:

  • Mousepose, a tool for demonstrations. (by David Goodger)

  • bitten, a continuous integration tool linked into Trac. (by Matt Good)

  • depgraph, for drawing dependency graphs. (someone in the audience -- sorry I didn't catch your name!)

The question that we didn't answer properly: why nose and not py.test.

And, finallyy, a note to self: when describing the use of Python wrappers to test C code, subversion is a fine example case.

A fictional but amusing LightningTalk title

"5 Minutes to a New Python Web Framework"

PyCon Quotes

"No matter how complex it is, it's just Python." -- Alan Runyan, Plone Keynote Speaker[0], explaining his sales pitch to organizations that worry about maintaining Plone.

"We have this concept of the J2EE liberation front..." -- Alexander Limi, Plone Keynote Speaker[1] (to great applause).

"PySVN has a bus factor of 1: there's one developer, and if he gets hit by a bus, the project dies." -- Brian W. Fitzpatrick, in his talk on cvs2svn.

--titus

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