PyCon 2009 schedule

Tuesday 17th February 2009

• A Curious Course on Coroutines and Concurrency

  by David Beazley

  • Concurrency
  • Coroutines
  • Python

  On Tuesday 17th February

  Coverage video

Saturday 21st February 2009

• Drop ACID and think about data

  by Bob Ippolito

  Building large systems on top of a traditional single-master RDBMS data storage layer is no longer good enough. This talk explores the landscape of new technologies available today to augment your data layer to improve performance and reliability. Is your application a good fit for caches, bloom filters, bitmap indexes, column stores, distributed key/value stores, or document databases? Learn how they work (in theory and practice) and decide for yourself.

  • Databases
  • NoSQL

  At 2:15pm to 3:00pm, Saturday 21st February

  Coverage video slide deck link

• Python 2.6 and 3.0 compatibility

  by Lennart Regebro

  This talks takes a look at the various options of migrating to Python 3, and takes up examples of some tricks you can do to make you code run unmodified under both 2.6 and 3.0.

  • Python
  • Python 3

  At 4:15pm to 5:00pm, Saturday 21st February

  Coverage video slide deck

Unscheduled

• Behind the scenes of EveryBlock.com

  by Adrian Holovaty

  Adrian Holovaty, bad-boy YouTube guitar star (search for him, if you dare!) and co-author of the Django web framework, takes you under the hood of EveryBlock.com, a Knight Foundation News Challenge startup which rounds up local news and information, and is powered 100% by Python and Django.

  Coverage note video

• Building a web framework: Django's design decisions

  by Jacob Kaplan-Moss

  • Django
  Coverage slide deck video

• Django on Jython

  by Leo Soto and Jim Baker

  • Django
  • Jython
  • Web Development
  Coverage video