EuroPython 2007: Sessions

Vilnius, Lithuania, 9-11 July 2007

This post expands upon my previous post outlining EuroPython 2007 conference. Sessions attended, sorely missed and topics to investigate further are detailed below.

An overview of each session and links to any available resources can be found by clicking the title of the session. This post will also contain personal techie notes that I made during each session.

Sessions I would like to have attended but, mostly due to timetable clashes, could not attend.

Silva CMS

by Mr. Kit BLAKE (Infrae)

Point overs Plone CMS:

  • Likes hierarchy
  • Nested sub sites
  • Authentication TTW
  • Has a zip import feature
  • Plans to support import via Open Office

Seamless object persistence with ZODB

By Mr. Christian THEUNE

Notes on this session

The Storm Object-Relational Mapper

by Gustavo NIEMEYER (Canonical)
http://storm.calonical.com

Client-side clustering & managing of multiple databases. Each store has its own connection cache

Similar to:

Look up: DBAPI

Case study of a Pylons project

by Max ISCHENKO

Notes on this session

Things to investigate further

  • ACID (transactions)
  • Sliverlight
  • Eggs (packaged up python modules/packages?)
  • KeyJNote
  • S5 (Presentation software??)