I'm thinking of going to PyCon 2010 in Atlanta. I'm not sure about whether my company will reimburse for me to go to a software engineering conference (I'm supposed to be a trader, after all) but I wanna go anyway.
A brief look on the schedules timetable shows a lot of yummy talks. Sessions that I wish to attend:
Friday:
- Optimizations And Micro-Optimizations In CPython (#38) : optimization is always an interesting subject.
- Maximize your program's laziness (#58) : laziness could save both your memory and time
- The Ring of Python (#189) : Eventually I would want to move on to Jython or IronPython
- Python in quantitative finance (#158) : Trader, after all
- Powerful Pythonic Patterns (#186) : This should be nice, but unfortunately it collides with the previous one
Saturday:
- Demystifying Non-Blocking and Asynchronous I/O (#164) : yummy subject
- Unladen Swallow: fewer coconuts, faster Python (#73)
- Dude, Where's My Database? (#133) : Talks about NoSQL databases. Collides with Unladen Swallow.
- Understanding the Python GIL (#82)
- Mastering Team Play: Four powerful examples of composing Python tools (#184)
- Actors: What, Why, and How (#161)
- Threading is not a model (#187)
- Python's Dusty Corners (#182)
Sunday:
- Eventlet: Asynchronous I/O with a synchronous interface (#141) : coroutines.
- Optimal Resource Allocation using Python (#36) : solving optimization problems with Python.
There are other topics I'm willing to look into.. but these are the main things. Pity there isn't any sprint session that looks interesting for me..
