Again about Google DevFest 2010

Yesterday I had to leave an hour earlier from the Google DevFest 2010 event, as I have to  catch up with my wife, she was waiting for me for the second Antenatal Class. I missed the Code Lab, the Maps and Buzz T-shirts. Ouch. 5:30pm I had to leave while they ended the event on 6:30pm.

Flash back: After lunch time, there were some presentations on Google Apps, by Patrick Chanezon, followed by success story of people who developed applications for Google Apps. One from creately.com (http://www.creately.com). Another round from SingPath (http://singpath.appspot.com).

One thing that was missed a lot is the power points (aka power plugs). It was awful so many people carrying laptop and no power plug on the Connexis Theater. Almost everyone were running out of battery.

I just don't know why the crowd was kinda lacking enthusiasm to verbally respond to the speaker on stage with 'ooo's, 'aaaa's, 'yeah's, 'alright's and stuffs. Most of the time the crowd was silent.

Nevertheless it was a must-attend event of this year. I will attend the next event for sure.

 

In Google DevFest 2010

Currently I am attending the Google DevFest 2010. Timothy Jordan and Bob Aman in their presentation on Open Social.

Today the registration was pretty crowded, and they differentiate based on the first letter of your first name. I was in the "A-F queue". The queue was long and the registration process was draggy.

They changed the schedule a bit, Daniel Lee presented the Google Maps as opposed to the initial schedule on the web site: Google DevFest 2010 in Singapore. He showed us how to create a coffee shop location based informative web site as an example.

After the first session, Jeremy Orlow, an engineer working on the Chrome team, explained the HTML5 and the Chrome. They skipped the Q&A for HTML5 and Chrome. May be they pushed forward because we're late because of the registration, so in order to finish during the lunch time, the organizer advised to ask in person to Jeremy during lunch time for anyone who want to ask questions.

Then here comes the third session, and its about  Open Social.  Tim was of more lively presenter than others I think. More like MC may be? Google Buzz API stuffs, atom, OAuth, Salmon, Pubsubhubbub etc.

PyDev 1.5.8 is out: Eclipse IDE + PyDev == Cool Python IDE

PyDev 1.5.8 is out now. Eclipse update site: http://pydev.org/updates

• Support for Eclipse 3.6 Helios
• The PyDev jar is not signed out (no more confirmation message that you are installing from untrusted source during the Eclipse plugin installation)
• DoesNotExist and MultipleObjectsReturned recognized in Django
• Some issues fixed

PyDev is a plugin that enables users to use Eclipse as an IDE for Python, Jython and IronPython development. It has the syntax highlighting, refactor, syntax analysis, debug, and code completion.

PyCon Asia Pacific 2010 has been firmly announced

Now they announce the PyCon Asia Pacific 2010.

http://apac.pycon.org/

9-11 June 2010, at Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium, Singapore Management University.

SGD 250 for corporate.
SGD 200 for early bird individuals.

Highlights:

• Steve Holden, Chairman of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) will be coming  as one of the keynotes
• Mark Hammond, author of "Python Programming on Win32"
• Wesley J. Chun, author of "Python Core Programming", now software architect at Google
• Martijn Faassen, a long standing member of the Zope Foundation

PyDev 1.5.6 has been released

PyDev is a plugin that enables users to use Eclipse for Python, Jython and IronPython development -- making Eclipse a first class Python IDE -- It comes with many goodies such as code completion, syntax highlighting, syntax analysis, refactor, debug and many others.

Fabio Zadrozny from Aptana, the author of PyDev plugin,  passed this information through mailing list:

This Release Highlights:

• Django integration:

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  • New Django project can be created through twizard
  
  
  • Can set an existing porject as a Django project (right-click project > pydev > set as django project) I think this is a kind of Eclipse's personality, like those of Maven2 plugins where you can declare that this project is a  Maven project
  
  
  • New Django project can be created throughtwizard
  
  
  • Can remove Django project config (righ-click project > django > remove django project config)
  
  
  • Custom actions can be passed to the configured manage.py through ctrl + 2 + dj django action -- if not action is passed, will open to choose from a list of previously used command
  
  
  • Predefined/custom actions can be used through right-clicking the project > django > select custom action
  
  
  • manage.py and settings module configured
  
  
  • Django shell (with code-completion, history, etc) available
  
  
  • Run/Debug as Django available
  
  
  • See: http://pydev.org/manual_adv_django.html for more details
  
  
  
  

• Find/Replace:
  
  
  
  • The search in open files is no longer added in the find/replace dialog and now works through Ctrl  + 2+  s word_to_find (in the PyDev editor) and if no word is passed, the editor selection is used
  
  
  
  

• Go to definition:
  
  
  
  • Properly works with unsaved files (so, it will work when searching for a definition on an unsaved file)
  
  
  • Properly working with Eclipse 3.6 (having FileStoreEditorInput as the editor input)
  
  
  
  

• Editor:
  
  
  
  • Automatically closing literals
  
  
  • Removing closing pair on backspace on literal
  
  
  • Improved heuristics for automatically closing (, [ and {
  
  
  • Removing closing pair on backspace on (, [ and {
  
  
  • Ctrl + 2 + sl (sl comes from 'split lines' -- can be used to add a new line after each comma in the selection
  
  
  • Ctrl + 2 + is (is comes from 'import string' -- can be used to transform the selected import into a string with dots
  
  
  
  


• General:
  
  
  
  • Code-completion properly working on relative import with an alias
  
  
  • Fixed racing issue that could deadlock pydev (under really hard to reproduce circumstances)
  
  
  • Removing reloading code while debugging until (if) it becomes more mature in the python side
  
  
  • Fixed issue where a new project created didn't have the source folder correctly set
  
  
  • Text selection in double click no longer has weird behavior
  
  
  • Local refactoring working on files not in the PYTHONPATH
  
  
  • Edit properly working on string substitution variables
  
  
  • Using with statement on python 2.5 no longer makes lines wrong in the AST
  
  
  
  

Python 3.1.2 Released (bug fix released)

Python 3.1.2 (bugfix release) is out now! We can download from this site: http://www.python.org/download/

Spring Python 1.1.0.M1 Released

SpringSource has has just announced last  week of a milestone release of SpringPython 1.1.0.M1. This announcement made aware about this project. There is a project that has nearly reached its 1.1 version that tries to develop Spring-like framework in Python. I would like to look into this project.

It is different from invoking Spring Java from Jython in  that, this project brings the concept of Spring framework into the CPython platform in general. Some of the configuration are really Pythonic!

I think I will explore more on this project.