The conference website suggested that we would have to meet 2 hours before the conference start to avoid a queue. The conference started at 9a.m. so none of us felt like getting up at 6a.m. after our night out with our finnish hotel friends. So we didn’t and found the hotel where the conference is held about 8.30a.m. There was no queue and even though we got 2 hours extra in bed both Christian and I almost fell asleep at the first talk.
Before noon we attended several talks:
- Seamless object persistence with ZODB
- Pythonic Interfaces
- Case study of a Pylons project
- KSS, Ajax development with style
- Using FormEncode for web data validation
All talks had a common feature; the people given the talks didn’t seem to care much for what they talked about. Christian and I agreed that the guy talking about Pythonic Interfaces had misunderstood Python – and should properly code java. Why would you want to have interfaces in a dynamic language like python. Just try whatever you want and catch an exception if it fails.
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After a – very small – lunch and too much coffee we went to the main conference hall to hear a talk about pypy. It was primarily about partial evaluation, which I had a course about as diku (with Christian). It was very interesting but didn’t cover any theoretical information we didn’t have anyway. I think the next talk – about PyPy Python Interpreter(s) Features – was very interesting but we didn’t have any coffee so I used most of the time doing stuff on my mac to keep awake. And good news: I have a nice new Standard ML – New Jersey installed. Looking forward to code some SML tomorrow if there is any boring talks.
After paying with SML for a while we continued with 3 or more lectures about testing. Why one testframework is good and another is bad. And why didn’t we leave the room after the first lecture :(
Finally the keynote by Simon Willison was there. He used this talk to introduce OpenID. We didn’t think much of it, but people seems to like it (maybe we’re just getting old).
A google representative scored some cheap points when – at the keynote end – he announced that google would be paying all the drinks at a local bare later that afternoon. We were tired and didn’t join the rest at the bar but went home to work a little and watch some TV.
More on the conference tomorrow.
A quick calculation (by bromer) surguested that google is currently feeding the beer-hungry python friendly people cheep beer, and problery will end up spending neerley 25.000 DKK on pure beer. (Note that the original calculation was based arround 30.000 DKK, but seeing as we did not attend, the standard of drinking must be lowered).
I need more coffee.
After further calculations the 25.000 seems a bit high. I don’t know the exact number of attendants there but 25.000 should buy about 2.500 large pints here. I’m pretty sure that there isn’t a bar in this down for more than 100 people. So thats 25 pints for each :) Enjoy..
Hey, it was not my calculations. I was just on the right place at the right time.
Sure, I was only correcting myself :) And we discovered another strange thing today. It cost more to fetch a taxi from the street than to telephone for one… hmm.. And all the cars have wires hanging out from the door behind the driver. Strange country.