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date: 2009/09/07 15:04
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Ha, I thought I was very tired after Day 1... not even close. Not after how tired I was after day 2!
First a short recap:
* Got there (in time!)
* Watched Facundo Batista's `Entendiendo Unicode`_
* Finally presented `PyQt + WxPython + PyGtk`_. And here are my slides_.
A huge thank you to Mariano Reingart, Mariano Guerra, Daniel Moisset and Javier Castrillo who were there
in representation of WxPython and PyGtk. It was a very cordial affair and lots of fun for everyone
involved, I hope. Here are the Wx_ and PyGtk_ slides.
On the other hand, this kind of thing is dead as future talk subjects, at least to me. There isn't much
sizzle in it anymore.
* Lunch
* A bit late for `Multiprocesamiento en Python`_ by Claudio Freire
* Then I completely didn't follow `Behind the scenes: Python bytecode`_ by MatÃas Bordese because...
* I had yet another lightning talk to give!
It was an old trusty friend of mine, Raymond Hettinger's `spreadsheet thingie`_ and I even did slides,
there was even time to get a neat xkcd_ reference in it... and the netbook I was using crapped out in
slide #3.
I could tell the joke (Marcos Dione had a shirt with the exact needed xkcd strip in the back), but
I really had a thing going and .. well, it sucked.
What the heck, I will try again next time.
And yes, here are `the slides I couldn't show`_
* Then, last conference, `Unladen Swallow`_ by Collin Winter, which was very nice.
* Then conference closing, gifts for the lucky, some talking, and home to rest.
In other areas:
I finally got my copy of the python tutorial printed with rst2pdf. It's the first time ever a book has
been typeset using rst2pdf.
While the printing and binding are (intentionally!) cheap, the typesetting was pretty good. Here are some pictures:
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And finally, I congratulate all the organizers, it was a beautifully handled event!
.. _Unladen Swallow: http://ar.pycon.org/2009/conference/schedule/event/35/
.. _the slides I couldn't show: //ralsina.me/static/hoja.pdf
.. _xkcd: http://www.xkcd.org
.. _spreadsheet thingie: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/355045/
.. _Behind the scenes\: Python bytecode: http://ar.pycon.org/2009/conference/schedule/event/17/
.. _Multiprocesamiento en Python: http://ar.pycon.org/2009/conference/schedule/event/16/
.. _wx: //ralsina.me/static/WxPython.pdf
.. _pygtk: //ralsina.me/static/charla-gtk.pdf
.. _slides: //ralsina.me/static/pyqt.pdf
.. _PyQt + WxPython + PyGTK: http://ar.pycon.org/2009/conference/schedule/event/15/
.. _entendiendo unicode: http://ar.pycon.org/2009/conference/schedule/event/14/