Dylan Jay

Using gevent, pyramid and socket-io for a micro framework approach to creating real-time web apps without the braces. Why is gevent so cool and how it can let you write fast scalable apps with asynchronous IO without twisting your mind.

zc.buildout is a powerful build/configure/deployment tool for creating applications from multiple parts, some not python. It's perfect for sharing a development environment or deploy applications to many hosts. This tutorial will cover basic concepts, similarity to other tools such as virtual-env, puppet etc as well as practical examples. zc.buildout has successful been used with web applications such as Plone, django and pyramid.

This will be a panel discussion wherein we wax philosophical about the state of web frameworks in Python - talking about invention, reinvention, multitudes of choice, how all of them suck, etc. Panelists will include Dylan Jay, Malcolm Tredinnick, Russell Keith-Magee and Richard Jones.

Introduction to the Pyramid, the new web framework taking the python world by storm. This tutorial will cover the basics of a hello world app and cover some of the advanced features of pyramid that give it it's power such as traversal. Pyramid is part of the pylons project and is a successor to pylons and a continuation of the BFG framework. It's very simple to learn, runs fast yet has powerful concepts which help keep large web app creation a sane process..