SPA2008 - day 2
A good day today. Went to an intense but stimulating three-hour session on Python generators in the morning, which had gone beyond my prior knowledge of them within the first half-hour. I was struggling to grasp some of the more advanced aspects of what was being demonstrated, but I certainly came out of the room with a better understanding than when I went in.
Other sessions of note included a panel discussion asking whether software practice had actually advanced over the past 15 years, and a thought-provoking presentation on the design of domain-specific languages. Between this and the evening meal, I had the chance to run a Django BoF (basically just a demo and a discussion). Four people turned up and we had some good discussion of Django vs. Rails.
April 24th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
[…] I’ll admit to being a little scared of Python generators when I first became aware of their existence. I was fairly sure that I didn’t understand them properly, and I failed to see how useful they really are. A few things have opened my eyes in recent months. First, Wesley Chun’s Core Python Programming helped to clarify a couple of issues, and then there was a session at SPA2008 which generated one or two “Aha!” moments, despite ultimately making my head spin. […]