Daniel Nouri's Blog

Last weekend, I went to my first FOSDEM (video recordings). I took my girlfriend with me, which I believe helped her understand my nerdy side better. ;-)

Paul Everitt did a nice presentation on Plone 3, where he showed how you set up a Plone 3 instance using ploneenv, and then an easy example of using KSS, and some other Plone 3 niceties. The ploneenv screencast is available now, and so is the rest of the screencasts that Paul demos at the presentation.

Paul was followed by Dries Buytaert's Drupal presentation, which was also really good. It was more a demo of what Drupal is and what it can do for the end user, as opposed to how you can develop for the platform and some legal background, which Paul concentrated on.

Unfortunately, I missed the OLPC talk, but nevertheless I was able to get my hands on one of those laptops, and they really do look cool.

Elixir, a library built on top of SQLAlchemy that's recently gone into beta, looks like a very convenient way to talk to relational databases.

Amazing how a conference with so many good talks can be totally free. Next FOSDEM? I'll be there...

Update: Added a link to the ploneenv screencast.