Pycon 2008

Venue: Chicago! My first PyCon!

• A database in the clouds
  • Using the Google Spreadsheets API
  • Why?
  • Challenges
  • Why google spreadsheets?
  • GoogleSpreadsheet API
  • What sort of Database
  • Simplified Interface
  • Searches
• What is a callback?
  • Callback implementation
  • Customization
  • OO Customizing: the TM DP
  • Customizing scheduling
  • Events
  • The Observer DP
  • GUI frameworks
  • Callback issues
  • Fixed args in callbacks
  • Callback dispatching
  • Callback and Errors
  • System-events callbacks
  • Event-driven parsing
  • Scheduled callbacks
  • Concurrent Callbacks
  • Timing and Debugging
• Django under the hood
  • Intro
  • Pluggables
  • New features
  • Metaclasses
• Why Py3k
  • Major Breakages
  • Long anticipated breakages
  • Major new features
  • What’s in it for me
  • Enables future evolution
  • 2to3 tool
  • When do we switch
  • Getting ready to switch
  • What about text handling
  • The role of Python 2.6
• Iterators in action
  • Overview
  • Functional LINQ
  • Row composition
  • Column Composition
  • Naming
  • namedtuple
  • Select
  • operator.itemgetter
  • create join primitives
  • Research items
  • Concepts for use
  • Recursive Generators
  • Fork
  • Global Interpreter Lock
• Netflix Prive
  • More CPUs
  • Beowulf Clustering
  • Amazon EC2
  • Parallel programming in Python
  • ElasticWulf
  • What is MPI?
  • Basics of MPI
  • Getting started
• nose and TDD
  • How laziness drove the development of NOSE
  • Basic of Nose
  • Reasons to use nose
• Why Pyglet?
  • Pyglet!
  • Compared to other things (pygame, pyopengl)
  • Components (Linx, OS X, Windows)
  • Features
  • Third parties
• Python for the sys admin
  • Why Python?
  • Sys admin constraints
  • Q&A
• Turbogears Philosophy
  • Why TG2?
  • Why not just merge TG and Pylons?
  • Stuff that was shared
  • Going forward with other frameworks
• Roll your own persistence in python
  • Example: Invoice
  • Implementation
  • Storage: Roll your own
  • Ways
  • Tradeoffs
  • Serialization
  • Serialization tradeoffs
  • Adding features
  • Data replication & versioning
  • Map-Reduce Querying
  • The server
  • Summary
• History of SQLAlchemy
  • Highlights of 0.4
  • SQL Expression language
  • New ORM Query ORM
  • Inline Aliasing
  • High level operators
  • New ORM Configurations
  • Collections API
  • Dynamic Relations
  • Polymorphic Inheritence
  • New transactional features
  • Other features
  • What is coming back
• A command line’s tools dream come true
  • Ideas for command line tools
  • The basics: Subprocess + Optparse
  • Some ideas
• Stackless 101
  • Channels
• Why python sucks
  • Not enough Python developers
  • Few organizations have Python solutions
  • Python language weirdness
  • Python is slow
  • Summary