We Are Team Rubber

It’s been an interesting day today, as I headed through talks on topics ranging from large scale python applications and software ideology to methods of inserting TeX-formatted maths into web pages - but here are some of the most entertaining events.

Harald Armin Massa gave another great talk as an introduction to the 5 minute lightning talks - “Is Python ready for Enterprise” introduced the new module ncc1701.py (google code page):

(Sorry about the quality of the image)

Part of this code:

>>>import ncc1701

>>>p = ncc1701.Phaser()

>>>p.fire()

Traceback (most recent call last)

  File "<input", line 1 , in <module>

  File "ncc1701.py", line 86, in file

    raise PhaserNotLockedOnTarget

>>>s =ncc1701.Shields()

...

Despite the initial flaws, in the end we all saw that Python is indeed suited for controlling Enterprise applications.

At the end of the day Hans Rosling gave a very interesting keynote on the world’s economy using some very interesting interactive visualisation software designed for “people who are always being told what to do - young children and world leaders”. Here was one interesting slide:

“Where is child mortality highest?”

Yup, child mortality is higher in professors than in students, and almost as high as in Chimpanzees.