--- author: '' category: '' date: 2009/09/07 15:04 description: '' link: '' priority: '' slug: BB822 tags: python, rst2pdf title: PyCon Argentina 2009 Day 2 type: text updated: 2009/09/07 15:04 url_type: '' --- 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 Matías 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: .. raw:: html libro1 .. raw:: html libro2 .. raw:: html libro3 .. raw:: html libro4 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/