Time for the developer pants
Posted at 13:34:02
on Sat, September 08th 2007 by graham
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Hello good travellers. I'm here at the Birmingham Conservatoire, utilising the suprisingly good conference WiFi at PyConUK . Bon.
It's lunch time on day one and my morning agenda so far has covered SQLAlchemy (cool but for me redundant at the moment), Twisted (pretty cool but I need to know more) and PyPy (very cool), the talk about which was presented by Mike Hudson, one of my Canonical colleagues and one of the PyPy developers from back when it was getting funded.
I'm not a huge fan of conferences. For one thing they usually a) necessitate being away from home, b) as a result of a. mean staying in a crummy hotel, c) have crummy wifi at best and d) put me to sleep. So far I'm pleased to say that PyConUK has only fulfilled points a and b, neither of which are their fault.
Incidentally, I've discovered once again that hotel wifi, when not included in the room rate (as it usually is for work) is stupidly expensive. And, again, crummy.
Of course the upshot of wearing the developer pants is that the writer pants are on the hanger and may not get worn this weekend, which is a disappointment for me. I had planned to do some novel-the-second outlining to try and ensure that I keep on track; the story has lost focus a bit in the last chapter and I'm having trouble finding a way to get the protagonist into the next chapter. Maybe that's something to be fixed on the train home.
The other upshot of wearing the developer pants is that I have a huge desire to hack at things. PylibMTP, django_(xml)rpc and grahambinns.com version 0.2 all need work. I just don't quite know where the time's going to come from. Oh, and I have things to do for work, too, which of course have to come first (because, you know, I like to buy food).
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Ooh. My future housemate MattP is at PyCon too! Mmm small world. He's giving a talk on genetic algorithms sometime tomorrow.
# On September 8, 2007 at 17:05:10 by
Emma
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