EuroPython 2008 is over. I packed and now I am waiting to leave for the airport to catch afternoon flight back home. Sadly I don’t have time to attend sprints and since I only recently started to write python again, I probably wouldn’t be of much use anyhow.

Conference itself was great. Smaller than web conferences I usually attend with a more friendly, homey feeling, but with plenty of excellent talks where I learned a lot. I also met a bunch of friendly interesting people and had in general a wonderful time.

It was also interesting to compare the whole experience with other conferences I go to. Apple is popular, but there are fewer Macs than at web events. Ubuntu seems to completely dominate Linux crowd (me included), since it was the only distribution I actually have seen and Windows is in minority. Everyone is much more willing to participate to the point, where sadly not all who wanted to present a Lightning talk on last day had the opportunity to do so.

I certainly hope to attend EuroPython 2009, which will be in Birmingham around this time next year. At the end I also have a present. Yesterday I got a license for Wing IDE Professional and since I don’t need one, I’ll give it to the first person who expresses a wish to have it in comments and leaves his/her email address in relevant part of comment form.

Update : License is gone, sent to a new owner.

Firefox 3 was released last week and tomorrow, a week after its release, we’ll have a release party at Kiberpipa. Everybody is welcome, but you have to register first.

Part of the event will be a series of talks , one of which will be mine, a short talk titled Easy deployment of site-extensions with a browser plugin .

I hope to see you there.

Today I switched to Firefox 3 as my main browser. I didn’t want to, because as a policy I try to use most common version as default, but I made a mistake of opening version 3 and since then none of my old add-ons seem to work on previous version anymore.

If I was still a young pup, I would probably dive into config files, search the web for answers and try to fix it. But when you get to 34, time becomes too precious to muck about needlessly and you just want to focus on things you need or better yet want to do.

So version three it is. This has got me thinking about something else. It’s remarkable how difficult or simply an annoyance it still is to have two version of a browser installed. Clearly this should be possible and is in interest of everyone involved.

Anyway, enough of ranting. Time to get back to cutting cake…