PyCodeConf 2011

• Organizer: Github!
• Venue: Epic Hotel, Miami, USA

• Future is Bright
  • What he does
  • What is Python?
  • Where is Python used?
  • Python is amazing
  • Status of the Language
  • Jesse’s Personal Wishlist
  • Jesse says we need
  • PyPy!
  • Python interpeters
  • Python 3
  • Community
  • Questions
• Embracing the GIL
  • Embracing the GIL could be better
  • premise
  • The Gil in a Nutshell
  • What GIL protects
  • Major GIL issues
  • The Challenge
  • Experiment
  • Performance Explained - thread priorities
  • Another experiment
  • Some thoughts
  • PyDanny take away
• Python is Awesome
  • Context for Success
  • License
  • Community
  • PyPI
  • Killer apps
  • Easy to learn!
  • Economy of expression
  • Beauty Counts
  • Interactive Prompt (REPL)
  • Behind the Scenes
  • Protocols
  • Specifics of Python: The Foundation
  • Winner Language Feature: Iterator Protocol
  • Winner Language Feature: Generators
  • Proposal: Generators that accept inputs
  • Winning language Decorators
  • Winning Language Features: exec, eval, type
  • Winning Language Feature: With Statement
  • Winning Language Feature: Abstract Base Classes
  • Winning Language Feature: Indentation
• Backbone.js + Django
  • Convore issue?
  • Grove!
  • Leafy Chat
  • Backbone!
  • Handlebars templates
  • Addition Goodies about backbone.js
  • Router
• PyPy talk
  • Two things go faster than C
  • Story of PyPy
  • Why you should use PyPy
  • The Future
• Processing Firefox Crash Reports With Python
  • Overview
  • The Basics
  • How crashy is the browser?
  • Basic Architecure
  • Lifetime to a crash
  • Back end processing
  • Middleware
  • Webapp
  • Implementation Details
  • Some Numbers
  • What can they do?
  • Implementation Scale
  • Development Process
  • Absolutely Critical!
  • Upcoming
  • Everything is Open Source
• The Future of Collaboration - Daniel Greenfeld
  • Intro
  • Dark future?
  • Trust issues
  • Solutions?
• The State of Packaging & Dependency Management
  • Pip
  • virtualenv
  • Best practices
  • What’s missing?
  • Recap
  • Thoughts
• API Design and Pragmatic Python
  • Alternative Titles?
  • His libraries
  • Philosophy
  • HTTP as an example of API issues
  • Subprocess
  • File and System Operations
  • Installing Python
  • XML
  • Packages and Dependencies
  • Date[time]s
  • Unicode
  • Installing Dependencies
  • Hitchhikers Guide to Python
• Python is Only Slow If You Use it Wrong
  • Stuff he’s done
  • Easiest way to do Python wrong
  • Other way to do things wrong
  • Garbage Collection
  • Deterministic Destructors
  • JIT vs ???
  • .pyc rocks
  • Summary
• Amazing Things in Open Source
  • Python community is a meritocracy
  • Who’s in charge
  • Django
  • Observation on Packages
  • Pyramid Core vs. Add-ons approach
  • Pyramid’s Ecosystem over time
  • Checklist: What 3rd Party Package Devs need
  • What about too many options?
  • Too much fragmentation?
  • What makes a package useful?
  • Anti-patterns
  • Glory Pattern: Be Pythonic
  • Community Building
  • Diversity of Ideas
  • Summary
• The Prejudgement of Programming Languages
  • 2001-
  • 2001
  • 2003
  • 2006
  • 2009
  • Q2 2010
  • Instance Variables in Ruby
  • Summary
  • Why does this all matter?
• Cherry-picking for Huge Success
  • Preface
  • Consider Twitter
  • Does this mean Ruby sucks?
  • Proposed Solution
  • Protocol Examples
  • Loosely couple all the ways!!!
  • WSGI
  • HTTP
• Breakdancer
  • Testing is a boring/hard subject
  • Wrote a framework to help set tests
  • MVC test framework? Pydanny Thoughts...
  • Conclusions
• The Many Hats of Building and Launching a Web Startup
  • 1. Start off on the Right Foot
  • 2. Launch as fast as possible
  • 3. Have a plan for monetization
  • 4. Don’t be forever alone
  • 5. Take Shortcuts
  • Summary
• Future of Python and NumPy for array-oriented computing
  • Python fits your brain
  • History of SciPy and NumPy
  • What SciPy Does
  • Call to Action: Collaboration between Python Core and the Scientific Communication
  • Call to Action: NumPy and PyPy

Discussions

• Talked to Mark Ramm and Wayne Witzel about SourceForge API