Monday, February 27, 2006

Was so 'et up' with PyCon 2006, that I had to start my blog...

Thoughts:
  • Steve Holden is a good presenter/instructor, and a nice guy. (wxPython tutorial, discussion with Bram Cohen)
  • Grig & Titus had a _lot_ of material about testing & Agile development; it made me want to start writing test cases
  • Bram seemed still geeky, still like the rest of us engineers & coders
  • though I didn't feel like I learned a lot from the wxPython tutorial, and the short wxGlade talk, I must've; yesterday's foray into wxGlade (from Boa-Constructor) was actually quite productive, and I have hope that an 0.1 release (of my stock-option app) is not too far off
  • for anyone in the Dallas area, with even a smidgeon of Python interest, coming to PyCon is a no-brainer
  • the hotel was ok (though I didn't sleep there); the first couple of days, the big (ball) rooms were cold, & the small rooms were hot, but they had that fixed by Saturday; the only other problem was initially Not being able to get the wifi going early Thursday
  • Selenium's only good for web-gui testing, so I'll have to get/do something else for my wxPython gui
  • should lookup CodeCon, see what's been presented there
  • Decimal sounds right for my stock/option pricing info
  • a mini-epiphany occurred to me - I could do a mini-server for my app, and just have any browser do the user presentation; however, now I'm making progress on wxPython, & will finish that first at least
  • education: need to teach my 8th grader Python this summer
ok, I need to stop blogging & get my buttonClicks attached to code. Welcoming comments on anything...