April 14, 2008 at 1:19 pm · tags: Django googleappengine Python
While I was boring myself to death last weekend and while everybody was talking about it I came up with a sample application.
Now I can talk about Google AppEngine as well 
It is simply a pastebin using the DataStore API, the webapp framework, the Users API, pygments and Django templates.
It is heavily inspired by http://dpaste.com
http://share11.appspot.com
The great thing? It took me less than an afternoon (mostly reading the framework docs) and it is ~200 LOC. Even greater? One shell command to upload and deploy
April 9, 2008 at 9:10 pm · tags: pycon Python
We had to make some schedule updates for the conference.
The savory new flavor of Py2.6 and Py3.0 is the title of the second day’s keynote. Who’s the speaker? Raymond Hettinger
The talk about callbacks and Python patterns have been replaced by a talk about the now utterly famous Google AppEngine.
The speakers of the PyPy talk are Antonio Cuni and Samuele Pedroni.
The title of Stallman’s keynote is Free Software in ethics and in practice.
April 9, 2008 at 10:30 am · tags: pycon Python
UPDATE: Raymond Hettinger will hold the keynote of the second day!
PyCon Due is definitely taking shape.
The conference will take place on a three day span.
The first day venue (free of any kind of charge) will be Palazzo Vecchio, in Florence. The conference will be introduced by the spokeswoman of Arts of the city. The opening keynote will be given by Richard Stallman, a person who needs no introduction in the software world.
After that, which is definitely important, we plan to go out and eat all together at a restaurant. Social life is equally important
The actual conference will begin the next day, the 10th of May, divided in three parallels track: a tutorial track, an introduction one and one based on experiences and real life usage of the language.
We’ll have talks about Python for beginners, various incarnations of Python, Plone, information retrieval, PyQt, nginx and WSGI, Cython, advanced uses of Django, PyMaemo, Unicode, PyPy, Zope 3 and more on that day. There will be also a Skype sponsored talk about Skype4Py.
The second day will be full of talks about profiling and debugging, SQLAlchemy, Django again, callbacks and patterns, map sharing, concurrency, Twisted Matrix, IronPython, Ajax, compilers in Python, the Fedora Unified Network Controller, FlyPDF and component architectures and more.
As you can imagine will be a tough three days conference, one an Italian (Python) developer should not miss in my opinion.
A lot of well known speakers: Alex Martelli (another who needs no introduction), Federico di Gregorio (author of psycopg2), Arkadiusz Wahlig (author of Skype4Py), Manlio Perillo (of nginx’s mod_wsgi fame), Antonio Cuni (from the PyPy team), Giovanni Bajo (mantainer of PyInstaller and of GCC fame), Brian Fitzpatrick (Subversion anyone?), Menno Smits (from the Resolver Systems team), Michele Simionato (of metaclasses, decorators and mro fame) and more.
As part of the board of the conference I’m a little biased by I’m really looking forward for this one 
See you there!
April 4, 2008 at 10:24 pm · tags: pycon Python
UPDATE: I forgot to say that there will be simultaneous translation for non-italian speakers and attendants.
PyCon Due Italy is coming, here the press release (in Italian):
Firenze, 27 Marzo 2008: Sono finalmente aperte le iscrizioni a PyCon Due, la seconda conferenza italiana dedicata al linguaggio di programmazione Python, che si terrà a Firenze il 9, 10 e 11 Maggio 2008.
Dopo il largo successo di pubblico e critica ottenuto da PyCon Uno l’anno scorso, l’Associazione di Promozione Sociale “Python Italia” organizza quest’anno un evento ancora più ambizioso. Sono attesi infatti più di 300 tra professionisti, studenti e ricercatori, per una tre giorni intensa di appuntamenti e interventi imperdibili.
L’evento di apertura si svolgerà Venerdì 9 Maggio alle ore 15:00 nel prestigioso Salone De’ Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio dove, dopo il saluto da parte di Lucia De Siervo (Assessore all’Informatizzazione del Comune di Firenze, che ha donato all’evento il suo Patrocinio), Richard Stallman (fondatore del movimento del Free Software, inventore della licenza GPL e ideatore del progetto GNU) terrà un keynote sul tema “Free Software e Free Ethics”. Questo evento di apertura è ad ingresso libero (fino ad esaurimento posti, ma con priorità a chi è registrato al PyCon).
In seguito, nelle giornate di Sabato 10 e Domenica 11, all’Auditorium Al Duomo, si terranno numerose conferenze dedicate al linguaggo Python, su tre track parallele. Parteciperanno speaker internazionali di fama mondiale come Alex Martelli, Samuele Pedroni, Brian Fitzpatrick, e molti altri. Sono previsti anche interventi dedicati a programmatori che si avvicinano al linguaggio per la prima volta.
Inoltre, sono previste sessioni speciali come la sessione di recruiting (dedicate ai programmatori in cerca di nuova occupazione, e alla quale parteciperanno le aziende con posizioni lavorative aperte), momenti di svago e relax serale, e l’estrazione di regali offerti dagli sponsor (che includono aziende di caratura internazionale come Skype e Google).
Per maggiori informazioni, potete visitare il sito Internet ufficiale dedicato all’evento. Registrandosi in anticipo, inoltre, sono previsti forti sconti sul biglietto d’ingresso.
If you are at least midly interested in the Python word, come!
