Slides from EuroPython08

By Sharebear. Monday, 14. July 2008, 16:49:05

widgets.opera.com, python, Ruby, Pylons, Capistrano, EuroPython08, EuroPython

Now that I'm settled home and recovered from the great Vilnius Mojitos it's time to get the slides online before people start complaining ;-)

During the course of the conference I gave 2 presentations

Spring into Pylons

This was a talk on the experience we've had while working on widgets.opera.com

Slides can be found here

Capistrano for Pylons Deployment

This was a talk on how we've found a tool for deploying Ruby on Rails projects useful for deploying out Pylons based widgets.opera.com

Slides can be found here

If you think that you fit on a team that works with the kind of things described in the slides above, then let us know because we're hiring!

Opera Widgets SDK Beta launched!

Comments

http://i35.tinypic.com/ri6lpg.jpg :/

edit: I'm sorry it's my mistake. I used zoom...

By Olihen, # 14. July 2008, 16:51:41

Olihen

Ouch, what browser?

Was developed in Opera 9.51 on Mac and I haven't had time to try it on anything else.

By Sharebear, # 14. July 2008, 17:01:55

Too bad I didn't get a chance to meet you guys

How was vilnius?

By Ramunas, # 14. July 2008, 17:14:44

Ramunas, Vilnius was great, as always. Interesting night life, although a little quiet on Wednesday. Might have to take a holiday there next year, as the conference will be in Birmingham.

By Sharebear, # 14. July 2008, 17:47:10

Let me know if you're ever going to travel to Lithuania again, would love to meet you(or anybody else who's interested for that matter), also I could help on choosing places to visit

By Ramunas, # 14. July 2008, 18:14:58

python for the win!

PS:was the presentation viewed smoothly on everyyone or its just me that operashow is a little broken in 9.51?

By deadHarlequin, # 14. July 2008, 21:06:19

deadHarlequin, the opera show is a little broken depending on your screen resolution/aspect ratio. I grabbed the CSS from someone else's presentation and haven't had time to fix it up properly.

By Sharebear, # 15. July 2008, 08:11:32

Did you ever consider using Django over Pylons?

- ØØ -

By NoteMe, # 16. July 2008, 07:35:40

noteme,
From the little I know, pylons is more modular, more flexible. If you know what are you doing, it's probably the best solution in pythonic web.

By deadHarlequin, # 16. July 2008, 12:27:52

NoteMe,

We did look at Django but a) I'm not a huge fan of the ActiveRecord pattern and, b) We didn't want to tie ourselves into one framework. This was the first Python project in the WebApplications Team and we wanted to make sure the code we wrote wouldn't be lost if we chose to change to anther framework. Unfortunately with Djanjo your code is very closely tied to their way of doing things.

In hindsight however, after playing with Django a bit more at home there probably isn't anything we've done here that couldn't be done with Django. Basically just different techniques needed with how to modularise the application.

By Sharebear, # 16. July 2008, 12:44:33

It's been quite a while since I tested Pylons, but I can't see myself go back after I tried Django a second time. First of all because you get so much for "free" like admin pages (easy when you want to get a page up and running fast). But then again, I have never made a page with this kind of requirements when it comes to traffic, so I can't really give any expert advice. So I was hoping for some expert tips

[Edit]And there I got it while writing myself

- ØØ -

By NoteMe, # 16. July 2008, 12:49:17

Thanks Sharebear for your thoughts. Django has just anounced they will be a foundation from now on, and 1.0 is two months away. They have done a lot the right way I think with the free Django book and all. Will be interesting to follow in the future. And I hope you guys keep on updating all of us on your work.

Cheers,
- ØØ -

By NoteMe, # 16. July 2008, 12:54:18

How soon do you need that position filled?

It would suit me down to the ground, I just need two or three more years to get my BSc.

By Mickeyjoe_irl, # 17. July 2008, 20:27:30

Mickeyjoe_irl, pretty soon but we do have summer students every year. You're a bit late for this year but you could always get in contact if you are interested in working next summer.

By Sharebear, # 18. July 2008, 08:42:28

In early 2010 I'll be looking for somewhere to do my work experience.

Do I dare dream?

By Mickeyjoe_irl, # 18. July 2008, 19:37:08

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