Malcolm Tredinnick

If you've ever been curious about Django's ORM implementation, you will have noticed the required learning curve. Some of the code is fairly complicated. Other bits are worse. Here comes a 30 or 40 minute guided tour of the uncharted realms: how the pieces fit together, where to look for things, why the current design is what it is. A portion of this is my fault; I should probably explain myself.

Writing software in an organisation or for ourselves, many people feel that they "should" somehow be doing Test Driven Development (TDD) because "everybody else" is and it's cool, somewhere between necessary and useful and they heard testing was good. When informed that must of TDD isn't about testing (despite the name!), confusion reigns. Behaviour Driven Development is a different way of approaching the "how to validate your code" problem.

This will be a panel discussion wherein we wax philosophical about the state of web frameworks in Python - talking about invention, reinvention, multitudes of choice, how all of them suck, etc. Panelists will include Dylan Jay, Malcolm Tredinnick, Russell Keith-Magee and Richard Jones.