was it recorded? if so, it would be really interesting to watch it.
On Mar 10, 7:28 am, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think it went very well from the audience perspective as well. Massimo's > computer was set on Chicago time (Atlanta is an hour later), so he > accidentally gave us our break an hour late -- but no one seemed to notice > or care because Massimo's tour de force of web2py's capabilities was so > engaging. Most attendees were relatively new to web2py, so Massimo had to > spend some extra time on the basics, but folks seemed quite impressed with > what they saw (looks like a couple of them sent out some tweets during the > tutorial). Massimo had a prepared script, but as questions came up, he > quickly whipped up some cool examples on the fly as well (e.g., > demonstrating web services). Near the end, Massimo said, "Now let's do > something more complex -- we've got 20 minutes left, so let's build a > Facebook clone." The audience thought he was joking a chuckled, but sure > enough, 20 minutes later we had a working Facebook clone created from > scratch (friend relationships and wall postings). Although it ended right in > the middle of lunch hour, most folks stayed an extra 20 minutes or so for > some Q&A (including more impromptu coding examples by Massimo). A number of > folks stayed even later to chat with Massimo. Overall, I think it was very > successful. We even had Guido van Rossum drop in for a good chunk of the > tutorial. > > Anthony > > > > > > > > On Wednesday, March 9, 2011 5:41:09 PM UTC-5, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > I am at PyCon in Atlanta. Greetings to all of you. The web2py tutorial > > went very well (at least from my prospective) there were about 18 in > > the room which is more than I was told would attend. > > > If you are in Atlanta, see you in the lobby at 6pm and we go out for > > dinner. > > > Massimo
