Highlights from EuroPython 2008:
- Nice badges! Large, readable font, nice design, pretty logo, no clutter.
- Wifi worked great most of the time.
- Reportlab paragraph hyphenation is in a sorry state (nothing in the core, several extensions that sort of support it but are incomplete or hard to integrate); I should take a closer look at Dinu Gherman's work.
- I should take a closer look at Vudo.
- Phatch is cool.
- Capistrano is interesting (and the slides were very pretty); shame I missed most of the talk. It was recorded, so hopefully I'll get a chance to see it.
- Eggs and zc.buildout are getting traction despite their rough edges.
- The Asus EeePC is convenient at conferences, if there are enough power sockets around, or if you're careful and suspend it often.
Won a Wing IDE licence in the raffle. Not going to use it myself (vim is the best, and I should publish my plugins). Also, I avoid closed-source software when I can.
