I talked with Moshe Zadka
a bit after my talk. I talked to some other people as well but I bring
up Moshe because there were several talks he was going to give yesterday
but he didn't get here in time. These include his "text steganography" talk
and his "Writing web clients in Python" talk. I've asked him
for copies of the notes for each, and they'll be part of
the inevitable EuroPython roundup, coming sometime next week to this space. I was able
briefly to recharge my battery, but it's only at 50% and I want to
write another rambling, incomprehensible entry tomorrow, so I'll sign off now.
Best talk so far: a talk about PyPy, a Python interpreter written in
Python, which is currently up to 20,000 times slower than the one written
in C. Armin Rigo, author of PyPy, also wrote his own presentation softwareusing
PyGame, which presented his presentation as a brainstorm diagram that
he navigated as he gave his talk. It's only a matter of time until
Steve Jobs steals that idea.
Thu Jun 26 2003 05:43 EuroPython Day #2:
My French is getting a little better; at least it seems that way now that I've met people whose English is worse than my French, such that it's most convenient to talk in French. I was able to ask for the check
and to have a door opened, although the check was not forthcoming
and the person I asked was powerless to open the door. My presentation
went pretty well, but I'm very glad I omitted the jokes because
the one I left in, thinking it had cross-cultural appeal, was not
greeted with any hilarity at all.
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