February 2006 Archive

I added more pictures from PyCon 2006. Enjoy.

Now time for a blog roll of my photo models (far from complete):

I know I missed some blogs, please let me know your blog address, and I will add it.

Here in Dallas PyCon 2006 gave us an opportunity to meet many "virtual" people from Python community, and put faces to names. For those who couldn't attend I am publishing pictures and small notes on Flickr. I will add more pictures tomorrow. If anybody's name is misspelled, or missing (I didn't catch all names), or you want me to remove your name or picture, please contact me and I will change notes. I am planning to add blog addresses to people's names as well.

Enjoy. For those, who missed PyCon 2006: I hope you will make it to Dallas next year for PyCon 2007!

My goal is to set up working environment for Django development on Windows box. You can find a lot of information on setting up open-source development tools on Linux. Somehow it is assumed that your project should target LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Python). Windows-bound guys are advised to decorate their platform as ersatz Linux: install Apache, install MySQL, and you have WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, Python). What kind of fun is that? No, we are going full WIMP (Windows, IIS, MS SQL, Python)!

Let's do it now:

It looks like this is the last update before upcoming beta release.

Have you been frustrated lately by speed of web applications? Typically they have a lot of art, and structured into a nice set of JavaScript and CSS files. They look beautiful, aren't they? But do you have the patience to wait them load? And proceed from step to step?

Let's take a look at Snakes & Rubies stats published on Google Video. But before that take a look at previous stats published on 1/27/2006. New stats include 5 more days covering 18 days of January 2006.

Lessons:

1. More people read Django Community RSS feed than the news group, which was used for previous announcement. Duh.
1. People followed my advice and went to watch Q&A Session. Very good! I know you were not disappointed.
2. More people decided to watch Adrian's presentation this time than before. It boosted greatly his number of page views comparing to other video fragments. In fact it is the most watched fragment of the series. Adrian, next time I suggest you to start you presentation with your rendition of Super Mario 2 theme. People totally dig it!
3. People watched the whole 3 hour movie instead of equivalent bits and pieces. It is amazing but true. At 30 viewers/day it will overtake individual fragments pretty soon, if not today.
2. People favor convenience over quality.
1. The event attracted almost 600 viewers so far. In last 5 days ~80/day came to see it.
2. While higher quality originals are available, hundreds of people used Google Video. I don't know why but I suggest to use it in the future for all such things. Maybe sreencasts should be adapted for low quality compression and published too.

Let me thank everybody who made this documentary possible. Adrian, David — you gave an excellent show. My special thanks go to Jacob Kaplan-Moss, who actually made the movie..