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Sunday, March 15, 2009

Pycon 2009 Chicago

It is about time the see the real face of this python community. I will attend to pycon 2009.
In 3 days, I expect to learn more things then I have learned in the last 6 months and met pationated peoples. Here are some of the talks I will attend:
Designing Applications with Non-Relational Databases (#16)
How Python is Developed (#116)
Twisted, AMQP and Thrift: Bridging messaging and RPC for building scalable distributed applications (#40)
Introduction to Multiprocessing in Python (#6)
The State of the Python Community: Leading the Python tribe (#118)
Google App Engine: How to survive in Google's Ecosystem (#53)
A Whirlwind Excursion through Writing a C Extension (#68)
Abstraction as Leverage (#110)
A winning combination: Plone as a CMS, your favorite Python web framework as a frontend (#100) Share on Reddit!!!
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