Kiwi Pycon 2010 Presentation Notes

In the time given at Kiwi Pycon 2010, I managed to traverse a wide range of topics related to Microsoft and Python (by IronPython and CPython)

• MACROPOINT, the 2447th presentation tool written in Python using HTML5, SVG and Python in the browser
• IronPython Tools for Visual Studio 2010
• Interactive IronPython console in a browser
• A REPL (read, evaluate, print loop) in IronPython to demonstrate Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) concepts
• Various Python libraries & Interfaces used in demonstrations:
  • tweepy (Excel COM IronPython integration)
  • Django-mssql (providing sqlserver_ado provider for Django to local free SQLServer Express 2008 & SQL Azure instances)
  • PyISAPIe (Interface between IIS 7.5 and WSGI to Django)
  • NOTE: Microsoft Web Platform Installer is your friend for installing complex stuff on Windows 7/Windows Server 2008
• Windows Azure
  • SQL Azure
  • Windows Azure 1.3 additional features
• Scripting added to Open source desktop application (MahTweets)