Quick EuroPython 2007 Review

Posted on July 12, 2007 by Lennart Regebro

I’m here at EuroPython 2007 trying to sprint, but being a bit too sleepy. So instead, here’s a quick review of EuroPython 2007.

Most impressive talk: Snakes on a Phone, by Jukka LAURILA, who showed some of the cool things you can do from Python on the Nokia-phones based on the S60 platform. The APIs provided are very usable an high-level, and the whole things is really cool and fun.

Most potential: RPython. Talks by Maciek FIJALKOWSKI, Antonio CUNI and Simon BURTON. RPython is a restricted static version of Python. Or rather a static compiled language with a Python syntax. It can compile to C giving you the possibility of writing modules with the same speed as compiled languages, but using Python-syntax. It can also, rather funnily, be compiled to many other languages, including for example Javascript, giving a rather unusual definition of “compiling”.

Best presentation: Simon Willison on OpenID. Simon is a very good presentation, and his way of using slides was inspiring. And OpenID is cool too.

Best talk: Well, mine of course! Or not. :-)

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2 Responses to “Quick EuroPython 2007 Review”

  1. Lennart Regebro, on July 14th, 2007 at 10:57 Said:

    Oh, and the funniest one: LOLPYTHON.
    http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2007/06/01/lolpython.html

    With Martijns ligthningtalk on Grok the movie as honorable second place.

  2. Nicola Larosa, on July 24th, 2007 at 10:57 Said:

    The slides, man, the slides! It’s all in the slides!

    Will you let us, who weren’t there, have the slides? Pretty please?

    And, uhm, did I mention the slides already?

    Of course, some notes from the talk would be great too! And maybe a podcast, or even a video?

    Well, enough already, thanks for the slides. ;-)

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