At the moment I've got 13 students signed up for my class and the "newbie tour of PyCon" I want to do. There's also about 6 Python experts (many much more expert than myself) who are going to help with the class and the guiding during the conference. That's a pretty good student/teacher ratio of about 2/1 assuming everyone who volunteered to help actually does.<p>Should be a blast, but if you guys have friends who you think would benefit from this please tell them about it. They don't have to go to the tutorials to join the group either. They can just show up like normal and hang out with us.<p>Thanks.
Mr. Shaw giving an "extreme talk" on using ZeroMQ, <i>Advanced Network Architectures With ZeroMQ</i>, should be interesting. For those that don't know ZeroMQ and why it's so useful, here's a few links:<p><a href="http://nichol.as/zeromq-an-introduction" rel="nofollow">http://nichol.as/zeromq-an-introduction</a><p><a href="http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/09/introduction-zero-mq" rel="nofollow">http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/09/introduction-zero-mq</a><p><a href="http://www.igvita.com/2010/09/03/zeromq-modern-fast-networking-stack/" rel="nofollow">http://www.igvita.com/2010/09/03/zeromq-modern-fast-networki...</a><p><a href="http://mongrel2.org/doc/tip/docs/manual/book.wiki#x1-640005.2" rel="nofollow">http://mongrel2.org/doc/tip/docs/manual/book.wiki#x1-640005....</a> <== The Mongrel2 manual is probably the best concise introduction to ZeroMQ.
The article sounds to me, like Zed is saying Python's usefulness to him is mainly as an educational language, not so much a "daily" language. Is this right?