Archive for July, 2005

The slides
for my "Python best practices" talk at the "libre software
meeting" in Dijon 10 days ago are now online after some minor
polishing.

Unfortunately for non-french speakers, they are in french (but with a faire
dose of english quotes and technical lingo ) but I hope you will enjoy
them anyway.

I don't consider the talk to be finished, there are many more things I'd
like to add over time. You're very welcome to send me your comments by email (sf at nuxeo dot com)

I thank Stefan Holek whose talk on
"choosing good names" at EuroPython 2005 was an inspiration for this
talk.

And, BTW, it's official now:

Pythonic is better than unpythonic

Great day for the European Democracy today: the software patents directive
proposed by the European Commission, backed by the European Council,
initiated by the European Patents Office and BSA, and supported by a horde
of corporate lobbyists has been rejected.

The directive was rejected by a majority of 648 votes against 14, something
unprecedented in the EU history.

For more information about the news, read:

• Michel Rocard
  discourse just before the vote (in french and english), also available
  as audio
  (MP3)
• FFII's
  press release about the vote