First day back at work post-PyCon and it was fun getting back into the swing of things since I code in Windows using Delphi — about as diametrically opposed to Python coding as you can get I would imagine. Actually not all that different come to think of it after seeing what Python can do on the Mac using pyObjC.

My time over the weekend was spent catching up on sleep and spending time with lainens, although I did setup a wiki for the fuse-dev team and tweaked the mailing list options. Today I figured out the issue I was having with moin-moin and how it looks for the common image and css files (RTFM and all that.)

What I’m really happy about is being able to run the tinderclient for the Chandler debian build. It’s a little thing, but seeing opus-debian listed in the Tinderbox status page was the highlight of the day for me!

Last night I also revisited the Twisted documentation and they have really come a long way since I last looked at them over a year ago. They still have a *ton* of code to wade through! I hope that Glyph and crew are able to work thru the internal restructuring they were talking about.

Well, time to get back to figuring out how to represent profiling data for 20-odd tests that each generate around 30 or so profiled routines across a range of dates! Talk about a 3-inch fire-hose size data problem.

Talk about total python immersion!

Got back from the PyCon 2004 conference last night and my brain was numb. I don’t think I’ve ever been in the presence of so many bright people – some scary smart.

To summarize: a total blast!

It was great to meet Ted (aka sprout), Jeffrey (aka jeffrey) and Mitch from “OSAF”:http://osafoundation.org, Brian Dorsey (a great guy with a very cool job who also speaks Japanese (not that I do)), Bob Kuehne, Nick Bastin, Michael Bernstein and a whole slew of others I will probably add as I remember/run-across their names in my notes.

Another benefit of such gatherings is seeing how other people use technology and do their coding. A lot of variety and more business use of Python than I honestly expected. I knew that Python had made in-roads into corporate use but did not realize that it was being used as a primary language and such a big part of many companies tech use for the primary focus.

One of the treats was taking part in the note taking effort that occurred during many of the talks using SubEthaEdit. Suffice it to say that it was amazing to see 4 or 5 and sometimes 10! people editing the same document. Using Rendevous you could see which talks had note takers and you could even monitor a talk that was happening in another room just by opening the proper file.

Some of the note taking was more in line with word-for-word renditions of what the slides were but many times you would get the added bonus of “color commentary” from the other people — like what would happen in the Panda3 talk when the Disney person would say something not-quite-true about SIG :) Other examples include people adding notes or URL’s that they knew of and a couple times the jokesters would make an appearance with the occasional pun or other comments. Basically it added a whole new level of experiance to the event

Even though my fingers were sore sometimes because they found out that I’m a touch typist and was able to transcribe the talk without too many typos or having to look down much — so I ended up being the raw text generator with others fliting about making corrections and such. The fastest note taking would happen when someone would start at the top, one at the bottom and if need be one in the middle with others bouncing around making fixes.

Anywho, as you can tell just from the length of this post, the conference made a huge impression on me and also made me realize how much I miss the social aspect of such geek-togethers. So much so that I am now looking to see if there is a Philadelphia based Python group.

Just spent two great days elbow to elbow with other coding geeks at the Chandler pyCon sprint. Got to meet Ted (aka sprout) finally and put a voice the irc chat :)

I was going to wax pythonic on all that happened but my brain is mush after a long fun day and a 3 hour drive to get back home.

The “pyBlosxom”:http://roughingit.subtlehints.net/pyblosxom team have released 0.9 onto the world that is webbed and so far it’s running without any issues here.

Great job gang!

Lainens asked me some questions last night that made me realize that pyCon was next week! Wow. Figures that work is also heating up this week :(

I’m still excited to go and meet people and associate with other coders. With me being the only coder at work I don’t get much of a chance talk shop (yes I’m on IRC a lot but it’s just not the same.)

Tonight was also the first time I built Chandler on the pbook – a very simple operation. The work that the “wxWidgets”:http://www.wxwindows.org (was wxWindows) people have done to make the widget set similiar across different platforms is simply amazing.

I was also doing some bug hunting on a project another coder, Francois Harvey, and I have adopted (“dircproxy”:http://dircproxy.securiweb.net) to track down a issue with reloading log files and it turns out that the code in question hasn’t been modified to account for the new log format :)

The cool part, well to me :), is that I was building and running dircproxy on the pbook. Maybe I’ll stop making comments about that happening in a coupe months.