RuPyRu - Ruby & Python conference

I've visited a conference dedicated to Ruby & Python. As opposed to Microsoft speakers were developers themselves that's why they told about bugs, little discrepancies and so on:)

Reports archives are already available.

Impressions of reports:
Gusarov Mikhail "OOP principles in Python"

Hum... It seemed that the speaker desired to manage in five minutes and threw away the most interesting things, only a compressed description of what dynamical languages are was left. And all the principles of projecting were brought to the necessary automate testing and to restate of Liskov Substitution Principle.

Rastyagaev Vadim "Introduction to Ruby"

A little description of syntax — it was not interesting... in the discussion that took place later a little bit more interesting explanations of closures vs ruby-blocks and scopes of made changes were sound.

Artamonov Igor "Python and Ruby in Java-projects"

Speaker was concentrated on weak places — productivity and correspondence of java-clones and native implementations in ruby and python. As a result everybody was deeply disappointed...
About the speed he told for nothing... everybody was scared of jruby productivity failure, but by the was jyton looks worthy enough.
But for the scripting in java projects I would choose Scheme or Groovy

Tarancov Andrew "Dynamic Languages Toolkit"

The project is interesting, promises a lot, written in Java. Wish them good luck. Looks like their goal is equivalent to creation own language interpreter, as it actually happened with Eclipse JDT. May be, in this way a good implementation of python and ruby in java will appear :)

Okoneshnikov Andrew "Python in business applications"

It were our honorable guests — guys use python since 2002 year in business applications and they are satisfied with their choice... a drop of optimism :)
By the way, this is not the only business system, which uses python. This is at least one more

Baburov Yuri "Python in C/C++ and C/C++ in Python"

A good review of everything. Choice to any taste.

Lyfar Dmitry "Boost.Python, Python in GameDev"

One more good report. What, how and why. But may be one should use Lua?

Coffee-break

That everybody looked forward — it justified the expectancies :) However I would like it happen in one or two reports earlier.

Nemytchenko Ivan "Introduction to Ruby-on-Rails"

A short retelling of standard tutorials. But those who followed carefully, obviously would like familiarize themselves with rails closer.

Yurevich Yuri "Python for Web"

Django, Twisted, Pylons — choose any. H'm, does Django _really_ so fast?? I have to try it. But I still have no doubts that for a very custom project Pylons is the right choice.

Yurevich Yuri "Using Unicode in Python"

Oh... why I have not thought about sity.py, since I have difficulties — just forget u in the line beginning and get errors :) I'm kidding — the report is absolutely correct.

In the end surprising news were sound - Iss Art is going to hold such conferences once in a three months. The next conference will be dedicated to the «extreme programming». Looking forward to it.

Update:
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With the «official» report and participants opinions are here