Lightning Talks

html5lib

Now at version 1.0, supports python 3

scrapy

• screen scraping library
• built on twisted
• parses badly formed html nicely for you
• batteries included, good docs ...
• makes web spiders dead easy to write

Get kids to learn online

• started by offering money - counterproductive

• extrinsic vs intrinsic

• try doing both?

• 3 groups

  • control
  • reward every time - 10% less quantity, lower quality
  • random rewards, might help a bit

django-fluent-pages

django-fluent.org

deploy tools

mana, git-deploy, capistrano

invisible and intentional mgt

• care about people

  • push to be best they can
  • keep them excited

• reward team work

• be invisible

• autonomy - give freedom and responsibility to share status and ...

• experiment

• find your team

mini-lightning talks

relationships

• you are not with the perfect person
• commit to the person and make it good
• same goes for software

evildmp/django-inspector

• ./manage.py follow_all_links -> report

SPDY

• django over spdy
• put it in jython - use java container that already supports SPDY
• much faster for many small items

make site load faster

• connection pooling (db)
• cache templates (django-crispy-forms uses lots of template fragments) - use template loaders
• pjax - jquery-pjax and django-easy-pjax

salt stack

• minions
• command line and files