Today was my last day at my job. I have de-badged. When I showed up yesterday, I found that some friends of mine decided to send me off in grand style. Green and yellow are Australia’s team colors. In addition to the lovely draperies, my cube was filled with green & yellow balloons. My boss took me to lunch and gave me some survival items for Australia, among them was a snake bite kit (Thanks Mark!)
I planned for my last day to be Thursday because Friday is the start of Pycon! As Adam Goucher said to me on twitter, Pycon is THE Python conference. I see this as the opportunity I’ve been looking for to spend some quality time with this language, break away from Java for a bit and take advantage of this transition-heavy period in my life. There are some great talks scheduled, and I’ll have a few tough choices to make.
Here are some of the sessions I’m considering attending:
The Mighty Dictionary
VisTrails
Creating Restful Web Services with restish
Deconstruction of an Object
Powerful Pythonic Patterns
There are many more because this schedule is stacked with interesting sessions. If you are planning on attending Pycon, drop me a note or a tweet and enjoy :)