Python Onsen Oct. 2008

Last weekend I went to my second Python Onsen organized by Nakai-san(id:voluntas). I talked about Python Onsen in my first blog post. Python Onsen is a 3 day event (Fri, Sat, Sun) but as before I only participated on Saturday and Sunday. This time I opted to work on creating a lifestream web app using feedparser and Django. feedparser is a snappy little parser for reading RSS and Atom feeds. The result was dlife which so far can parse a set of feeds and show them on a user’s lifestream though it’s not in any way user friendly yet (you have to update the feeds in the django shell).

I also got to know my soon to be co-worker, Okano-san ( id:tokibito), by talking about jQuery’s internal data() function and web/Django development.

Here’s a recap:

• Worked on a Sweetcron lifestream replacement in Django (dlife)
• Onsen is pretty lonely by yourself.
• Introduced tokibito to the jQuery internal data() function
• Since I come on Saturday, I always miss introductions so I never know who is who.
• feedparser is really simple and easy to use. Though I’m not sure what I’ll do about pictures and video yet.
• No one mentioned my blog or linked to it in their posts (Maybe because I never write anything? )
• In a raffle, I got a cool Python shirt from Accense Technologies Masuda-san (id:whosaysni).
• It was lonely going home by myself from Kinomiya station.