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UTOS 2009 Review
I had a good time at UTOS. The first day was mostly spent in my Intermediate Python workshop. For those who attended I apologize for not having a break! 2.5 hours is a long time to listen to me spout off. I think the workshop went well though. We discussed testing (unittest/doctest), functional programming, functions, decorators, iterations, list comprehensions and generators. After the speaking was the hands on portion. The room was packed for the first part (some people stood for most of the time). For the next hour or so people stayed around and hacked on python. It was really cool to see people who had "only written 3 python programs", write a generator and understand what is happening.
That night we had a Utah Python group meeting. Stephen McQuay did a great job of introducing Python. One interesting fact, is that he said the main impetus for him learning python was the "import antigravity" xkcd cartoon. I've never heard that one before!
I also talked about coverage and that went well. I had a little technical glitch at the start as OOo seemed to have problems with the projector. (I've never seen it before but my presentation would open just fine when the projector was not plugged but would hang when it was. Very weird and frustrating. I finally opened OOo and then connected the projector and it worked. For my workshop I made pdf backups of my preso in case this happened, but didn't bother for this since I had no problem the with the workshop preso. Live and learn. Always make a pdf backup on a thumbdrive!)
The other sessions I attended were pretty good. One note, when you are demoing on a console there are two problems. One is font size. The other is that terminals show the input at the bottom of the screen (unless you are ctrl-l'ing all day long), which can be hard to see unless the screen is pretty high. A tool like pykeyview can go a long way towards helping with the latter problem (which came up in 2 sessions I attended).
Are your slides from the Code Coverage one anywhere?