Northwest Python Day 2010
Attended Northwest Python Day 2010 in Seattle Central Community College today. it’s full packed day, I got really excited to meet quite a few great people and learned many new stuff.
This blog post is also the first post of my resuming of English blog after almost 1 year, however, my blog software (which is written by my own when I learn Google Apps Engine) has not been upgraded yet, so it will temporally mixed in my Chinese blogs. (I will not break my blog into different blogs like before, instead I will support multi-lingual feature in my next blog application so it won’t be a problem in the future, hopefully).
A few links and notes take from today’s meeting and followed surf after came back home, had 1 dog fight (yes real “dog” fight), a 2 hours snap!
1. Dave Peck: http://davepeck.org/
Cool guy with some open source projects build on Google Apps Engine (and also iPhone client).
http://codeorange.com His firm.
http://www.citygoround.org/ GAE hosted website help users find right mobile apps for local information.
http://www.wherebe.us/ Open source geo-twitter client, service hosted on GAE.
He talked about a few cons on the 1st serve latency of AEP, and obviously all his project use Django directly without AEP or AEH. I use AEP because the support of generic views, but may need to think again due to performance consideration. (Generic view seems to generated too much RPC even for a simple object_list related rendering)
http://www.zerigo.com/managed-dns/rest-api From Dave’s twitter happen found this awesome RESTful DNS API service. Godaddy’s DNS management sucks, I am really looking for some new provider that not sucks… Looks like their service doesn’t support geo load balance, this is a must for serving the people behind the GFW.
2. Gary Bernhardt, http://blog.extracheese.org/
Awesome guy with great 2 talks in 1 day. One is about his story and lessons learnt from his startup, a cloud backup service with cool restore features. Another talk is Rudy vs Python. Both are nice talks with cool and simple slides and sense of humors.
3. Dane Springmeyer, http://dbsgeo.com/
So many valuable starter’s information on GIS, it’s an eye opener talk for me since all I know about GIS is just it name and know it’s map related. :) Slides: http://dbsgeo.com/talks/wa_urisa_springmeyer_mapnik_python_scripting.pdf
Obviously, there are quite a few great tools in the python world to help build GIS application. Something impressive to me is the mapnik(http://trac.mapnik.org/), it’s a python tool to render beautiful professional look maps, it does support generating the tiles for web apps like Google Map. OpenStreetMap(www.openstreetmap.org ) is using mapnik to generate map. The recent Flickr map used OpenStreetMap data for Haiti.
There is another session talked about maproom (http://bitbucket.org/dhelfman/maproom/wiki/Home), a python based 2d map render engine based on OpenGL.
Other interesting sites mentions:
http://www.twilio.com/ In simple, a phone front end for HTTP services. Pretty much like our old IP-IVR ideas, but it only serve as a phone<->http gateway, which is the key part of such system. Need to learn more to see what’s cool inside.
http://neolography.com/timelines/JohnItinerary.html A cool mashup of timeline + google map for the itinerary of King John of England.
http://cozi.com This is a start up for family site, almost the best one in this sector. I have ever researched them around 1 years ago when I participate with Microsoft social computing idea challenge. I know it’s a company created by ex-Microsofter, but I didn’t know it’s Seattle based, and I didn’t know they are build on Python/Django. :)
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