PyCon 2005
Last week I went to the 2005 Python "Conference":http://python.org/pycon/2005 in Washington, D.C. and I'm still trying to process all of the information from the conference itself let alone the four days before (aka - the sprints.) There are a lot of very bright and intelligent people who attend PyCon and the whole thing has a very friendly feel to it - so very non-corporate. The biggest feeling that I get from this year is that Python is ready to take center stage as a RAD tool - sure people will always throw the "but it's interpreted" argument out, but that is really just a minor issue. The way people are creating serious apps and how quickly they turn them around and without a lot of v1.0 bugs is pointing to the maturity of the language. I will be going thru the various sessions I went to and be creating log entries for each one high-lighting what I thought was key points from them. Hopefully both of you will find it interesting.