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= Talks attended =

** http://us.pycon.org/2010/conference/schedule/event/19/

** Deployment is hard!

** Good work coming up in the packaging arena: distribute/pip will be replacing easy_install/setuptools. Mostly backwards-compatible, but a little bit more sane. Installing egg files as zips is bad.

** http://us.pycon.org/2010/conference/schedule/event/29/

** Good review of changes in python 3

** Didn't address if developers should be shipping two modules, one for python 2, one for python 3, or try and ship one module that does both.

** http://us.pycon.org/2010/conference/schedule/event/36

** Easy HTML form generation from your database schema

** Was hoping to see more data visualization tools

** http://us.pycon.org/2010/conference/schedule/event/32/

** Caught the tail end of this talk, but what I saw was really cool. Basically tips and tricks to avoid doing too much work. Procrastination FTW!

** http://us.pycon.org/2010/conference/schedule/event/39

** Another very cool presentation about the world of python interpreters. Holger covered CPython w/ various extensions (psyco, cython), PyPy, Unladen Swallow, Jython, Iron Python, Stackless. Lots of cool information about PyPy and Stackless in particular.

** Demoed his execnet module a little bit. Basically a really simple way to communication with different python processes on the same machine, or different machines. Supports a bunch of different python versions, as well as different interpreter implementations. http://codespeak.net/execnet/

** http://us.pycon.org/2010/conference/schedule/event/47

** I wanted more talk of actual patterns rather than a presentation of what patterns are, and why they're important

** http://us.pycon.org/2010/conference/schedule/event/53

** Not a lot of new information, but cool to see my previous company's work shown in a very good light! Houdini uses Python quite extensively, and has come up with some novel ways to integrate various versions into the product.