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I found myself sitting next to a couple of guys from Microsoft who work in the dynamic languages group. I was able to find a bunch of stuff out about Iron Python: particularly ASP.NET futures.

very cool. Anyone who wants can give a talk (have to sign up beforehand). Talk is <= 5 minutes. There are two podiums, one done the active presentation and the other setting up for the next talk. Most…

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The standard of presentations has improved a lot—I’ve been in the biggest ballroom for the last few presentations… I detect a correlation. These guys are much more articulate, focused and generally able to apply two…

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Missed the Python for .NET talk … looks interesting. All about using CPython to access .NET (not the same as IronPython which is Python running ON .NET)

Very good talk. Showing browser driven apps… using the server as an API and using Dojo which is very small and very powerful.

Very good talk by Jonathan Ellis http://spyced.blogspot.com/

All talks so far have been 30 minutes short…. this makes for a fast paced conference but it makes all the talks slightly breathless. Preumably the idea is that the talks surface some important ideas…

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Guido borrows from Matz: “Open source must move or die”

Such a skewed crowd means that most of the women’s bathrooms have been temporarily converted to men’s…. still there are line-ups. Good to have the tables turned every so often…

apparently a 70% increase on last year. Sixth year of PyCon