Socialbomb at OSCon
We in Socialbomb Engineering had the pleasure of going to O’Reilly’s OSCon (Open Source Convention) again this year, and as expected, it was a great collection of open-source concepts, experts, and goodies. We even heard it was the biggest OSCon yet, with over 3500 people registered!
Socialbombers Adam Parrish and myself, along with Socialbomb album Brendan Berg, gave a talk called Tornado: Scalable, Non-blocking Web Servers for Fun and Profit, in which we outlined the things that make Tornado such a fantastic framework and how folks could make use of it for their own development. The crowd was wonderful, and we got a great conversation going around the advantages and problems to using it in production.
We made a quick link-shortener program (live!) to demo Tornado’s power and simplicity, and if you’re curious, you can snag the code here. Thoughts, edits, and questions are welcome!
Adam also did a second session called Teaching Creative Writing with Python, in which he outlined the things he’s learned from the creative-writing-with-Python course he teaches at NYU ITP. Not only did the room seem to love it, it even got picked up in ReadWriteWeb!
If you were there, we’d love to hear your thoughts on these talks or any others you saw, so drop us a line!
-Mike
