Pythoneering

I’ve just got home from PyCon UK, and a rip-roaring success it was too, IMHO. There were 190 attendees, which certainly exceeded my expectations, and many interesting presentations.

Eye-openers for me included Tim Parkin of Pollenation showing how easily Twisted could be used for web application development and Matthew Pontefract of the Moving Picture Company discussing a Twisted-based framework for distributing computation for CGI movie effects and all kinds of other services across a mesh of loosely-coupled nodes. I also found Christian Tismer’s introduction to Stackless Python to be useful, and I enjoyed the keynotes greatly - particularly the one by Simon Willison on OpenID.

The event as a whole cost far less that some other tech conferences that I’ve attended, and the organisation was superb. I reckon I’ll be back next year…