Jeremy Hylton's Web Log

Blogging at PyCon

Fri, 25 Mar 2005 00:18:09 GMT

I've been having a great time at PyCon! Good talk, catching up with lots of friends, and some renewed enthusiasm for the PSF. Greg Stein setup a blog for the Googlers at PyCon. Greg, Chris, Matthew, Will and I have been busy blogging about PyCon. I have more notes I'd like to post but my wrists can't keep up.

PyCon Lightning Talks

Thu, 17 Mar 2005 06:11:09 GMT

The lightning talks have always been one of my favorite parts of PyCon. They are an excellent way to start a conversation. It's just enough time to pitch one good idea and get people excited about it. There will be two sessions of lightning talks at PyCon this year -- Thursday after lunch and Friday after lunch. Please sign up for a talk by entering your name in the Wiki.

What Do I Want to Learn at PyCon?

Thu, 17 Mar 2005 05:47:29 GMT

PyCon is coming! The most valuable part of the conference is connecting with people and catching up on their lives and work. As there have been more and more good talks, I've gone to fewer and fewer of them.

Strategy vs. Hook

Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:24:16 GMT

A colleague has reminded me a second time that a strategy object is better than a hook method. In principle, I agree, but somehow I fall back to inheritance and hook methods when I actually start to write the code. I must make a more conscious effort to use composition instead of inheritance.

Lightweight Languages Program

Wed, 24 Nov 2004 04:37:13 GMT

The program is set for the Lightweight Languages Workshop next month. I highly recommend it if you are in the Boston area. It's a good group of talks, an fun community of people to interact with, and you can't beat the price.

Jeremy Hylton's Other Blog

Fri, 05 Nov 2004 22:50:10 GMT

I created my other blog using Blogger. I wanted to keep the political posts to a minimum on python.org.

Political Advocacy Call

Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:40:43 GMT

We got a pre-recorded call this afternoon from Patrick Murphy, a veteran endorsing John Kerry.

Lightweight Languages 2004 (LL4)

Sun, 10 Oct 2004 23:51:59 GMT

The 4th annual Lightweight Languages Workshop will be held at MIT on Saturday, Dec. 4 -- in the shiny new Stata Center. Presentation proposals are due on Nov. 12.

Python Standard Library

Sun, 10 Oct 2004 23:51:50 GMT

Andrew Kuchling argues that we should stop hacking on the Python interpreter and starting improving the standard library . It's exactly the opposite of the argument that Mitch Kapor made in his PyCon keynote: security, performance, developer tools.

Python Bug Day

Sat, 07 Aug 2004 17:03:30 GMT

I made some Pythhttp://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/PythonBugDayStatuson checkins today. The first in months. Today was the third Python bug day, organized by Andrew Kuchling. I fixed a couple of outstanding httplib problems -- only one is really a bug -- and a urllib2 problem that Andrew Sawyers discovered several months ago.

ZODB 3.3 alpha 3

Fri, 16 Apr 2004 21:13:07 GMT

Tim Peters and I spent the better part of this week getting ZODB into shape for another alpha release. It's the last release of ZODB that I'll be actively involved in. I wish we had been able to get a beta release done, but there's too much new development for that; we need a release for people to try it out before the APIs can be finalized.