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Episode 001: What We Learned on Our PyCon Vacation

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Welcome to the first episode of the podcast! These, my friends, are the Show

Notes.

Introduction to Your Hosts

  • David Stanek @dstanek on Twitter
  • Mike Crute @mcrute on Twitter
  • Chris Miller @codeshaman on Twitter / codeshaman on Identi.ca

    • PyCon 2010 Reflections

    • Mike and Chris were impressed by the community and the group focus
    • Ruby sucks. Mike said it. Bring it, kids.
    • Titus likes Distribute and Pip. Who knows why?
    • What can we learn from PyCon for
      • regional conferences like PyOhio?
    • Dave’s done a lot of thinking about testing
    • He finds that nothing lets him test the way he wants.
    • He uses nose, mock, and dingus
    • Mote might be good for BDD, but Dave finds it lacking.
    • Dave hates documentation. Tests could be like documentation, and would be more accurate over time.
    • Mote parses the output more like a narrative, almost like a spec, instead of …..F….
    • We work with a large system, and rest assured, code is not documentation. Tests could be.
    • Oh..we ramble about this for a while. PyCon? What’s PyCon? Oh…right…the Testing BOF.
    • There was a Testing Goat. Terry Peppers is somehow responsible for it.
      • Mike Pirnat needed one. Gary Bernhardt was
      the goat. We want pictures. ‘Nuff said?
    • Look into Mike’s .vimrc. Behold the wonder.
    • Right. PyCon. Remember Pycon? David Beazley’s talk on the GIL was dead sexy.
    • The Brandon Rhodes’ discussion of the Dictionary Object. Awesome.
    • Chris thought Titus’s talk on Continuous Integration frameworks was great.
    • Oh look. Back to testing. We like talking about testing. Look for a show or two on testing. Wait! Don’t leave!
    • Chris was impressed with the diversity of the community and how friendly people were.
    • And about the vendors. What did we think about the vendors? We like Swag. And sometimes we buy books. And hats.
    • “I use vim, so I don’t really need an IDE.” Flame. Discuss.
    • We generally have a good opinion of companies using open source and who participate in the community.
    • We enjoyed hacking together, especially on Mike’s snakeplan.
    • We need DCVS achievements. Like games. But better.
    • Catherine Devlin’s cmd2 was sweet.
    • You might be eaten by a grue.
    • Python is used by the military to create simulations.
      • Thanks, Eric Silverman!
    • Atlanta, however, was…meh. We’d prefer Cleveland. We’re not biased. Nope. And it’s not Detroit, right?

      • Closing

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        • The music is Codemonkey,
          • provided by Jonathan Coulton.

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          From Python Import PodcastBy Mike Pirnat, David Noyes, Benjamin W. Smith, David Stanek, Mike Crute, Chris Miller