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+====== Notes from PyCon 2013 ======
+@pydanny: #pycon pro-tip: Show up to @raymondh or @jacobian or @roguelynn's talks early!
+**Speaker Decks**: [[https://speakerdeck.com/pyconslides|PyCon Slides]]
+===== Books for Kids =====
+  * [[http://www.amazon.com/Python-Kids-Playful-Introduction-Programming/dp/1593274076/|Python for Kids]]
+  * [[http://www.amazon.com/Hello-World-Computer-Programming-Beginners/dp/1933988495/|Hello World! Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners]]
+===== Disney - Optimizing =====
+[[http://davidschachter.com/|David Schachter]] presented a talk on program optimization.
+[[http://davidschachter.com/ds/PyCon_slides_public.pdf|His slides]] are available, too.
+===== New Relic - Managing Python App Performance =====
+Instrument Django apps with New Relic.  He ran us through some katas.
+[[http://newrelic-python-kata.herokuapp.com]]
+They love postgression for PostgreSQL testing. It makes temporary databases.
+xml.weather.yahoo.com looks interesting.  Should look into that.
+Recommended book: [[http://django.2scoops.org|Two Scoops of Django]]
+[[https://newrelic.com/docs/python]] has a link to instrumented Python packages.
+Promocode: pycon13, free T-shirt
+===== Google talk (3 parts) =====
+. User / Application Identity
+Adam Eidenberg spoke.  They say they're going to post a link somewhere.
+  # Create a project https://code.google.com/apis/console/
+  # More stuff... https://code.google.com/p/google-api-python-client/downloads/list
+. Discovery
+[[http://goo.gl/cyY1U]]
+===== Lightning Talks =====
+**PyCharm**
+PyCharm is a Python IDE.
+Compare against Wing IDE.
+**Mark Ransom**
+NASberryPi speaker got it working on a Pogo plug.
+uPNP Media Server (minidlna)
+Uses OpenVPN client for torrent to the house from cloud.
+ samba
+ minidlna
+ transmission-daemon
+ OpenVPN and Transmission
+ Uses a up.sh
+**NES Javascript Guto Maia**
+nodeNES
+**PyWeek challenge**
+April 14-21
+kivy.org used for game development
+**Don't Make People Watch You Type**
+stuart@swilliams.ca
+import code module, interactiveconsole
+**Job Security**
+"How do I write unmainainable code?" Bad names.
+Monkey Patching
+import magic
+math.sin, math.cos = math.cos, math.sin
+**KHAN Academy**
+KA Lite runs on a RaspBerry Pi
+Started with Django, standard web server... trimmed it down to pure python,
+cherrypy, etc.
+Offline Commons (release content such that peer-to-peer is allowed.)
+Jamie learningacademy.org
+**5K Run**
+John Hunter Memorial fund
+**Raymond Hettinger** @raymondh
+What makes Python awesome?
+whoami id -un
+Python is a big box of LEGOs.
+(That was referring to iterables as built in to the language.)
+Generators and the yield statement.
+formfeed example.  Find it.  "Winning Language Features:"
+Checkout twisted's inline deferred, @inline_deferred
+Check out itty
+<code>
+from itty import get, post, run_itty
+@get('/pathsomething')
+def xxx():
+    xxxxx
+</code>
+<code>
+with ignore(OSError):
+    os.remove(someFile)
+</code>
+===== Keynote 1 =====
+Over 2500 attendees
+PyCon is more than 20% Women
+Python got to keep the name in the EU.
+[[http://preview.python.org/|Preview of the new python.org]]
+===== Guido's Keynote =====
+Async IO.  Issue came up in PythonIdeas mail list.
+People often solve this problem with threads.
+===== Random Python-related URLs =====
+[[http://libjoe.blogspot.com/2013/03/programming-othello-reversi-part-1.html|Programming Othello/Reversi in Python]] \\
+[[http://www.infoworld.com/t/python/why-netflix-embracing-python-over-java-214288|Why Netflix is embracing Python over Java]]. Sounds like an overly-zealous article.