Pycon AU 2011

Social

• Women’s breakfast packed the place. Lots of great people showed up!
• Everyone at the conference was lovely.

Talks

• Keynotes
  • Audrey Roy
  • Mary Gardiner
  • Raymond Hettiger
• Meta-matters: Using decorators for better Python programming
  • The preamble
  • What is a decorator?
  • Why use decorators?
  • Why wouldn’t use Python?
  • Decorator Syntax
  • Typical uses
  • Classic decorators
  • Let’s write a decorator!
  • A better version of our decorator
  • Best practices for using decorators
  • Some real-world uses
  • Class decorators
  • Some decorator thoughts by myself about Django and caching
  • Some advice
  • Further reading
• State of CPython and Python Ecosystem
  • Python Launcher for Windows (PEP 397)
• Teaching Python to the young and impressionable
  • Challenges
  • Teaching CS in Australia
• How Python Evolves
  • The Python Ecosystem
  • Alternative Implementations
  • What kind of changes get accepted
  • Role of Core Developers
  • Why contribute to CPython?
• Panel: Python in the webs
  • Micro vs Macro frameworks
  • Django thoughts
• Zookeeper
  • Current System
  • Architecture
  • Roles
  • Standout feature: Admin reports
  • Attention needed
  • Call to action
• Web Micro Framework Battle
  • What he needs for standard library
  • What is out
  • Sample app: wiki
  • Contenders
  • How do they rank?
• Pyramid
  • Heritage of Pyramid
  • Who uses it?
  • Differences between Pyramid and others
  • Sample view
  • Routes
  • View Callables
  • Renderers
  • Templates
  • Traversal
  • View Predicates
  • Security
  • Scaffolding
  • How Django does it better
• Zen of Python
  • Guido’s Original Design Philosophy
  • Beautiful is better than ugly
  • Explicit is better than implicit
  • Simple is better than complex
  • Complex is better than complicated
  • Flat is better than nested
  • Sparse is better than Dense
  • Readability counts.
  • Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules
  • Although practicality beats purity
  • Errors should never pass silently
  • In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
  • There should be one - and preferably only one- obvious way to do it
  • Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you’re Dutch
  • Now is better than never
  • Although never is often better than right now.
  • If the implementation is hard to explain, it’s a bad idea.
  • If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
  • Namespaces are one honking great idea – let’s do more of those!
  • Reference: Zen of Python