I actually went to DjangoCon, and this presentation was probably one of my favorites. Cal was hilarious, but he also had some interesting points about web fram

I actually went to DjangoCon, and this presentation was probably one of my favorites. Cal was hilarious, but he also had some interesting points about web frameworks and scaling, database sharding and using multiple db's within a framework. Cal should know what he's talking about when it comes to that. It sounded like Adrian and Jacob really took his critiques to heart. During the "Future of Django session" they said that multiple db's on Django was a big priority for near future releases. Other great presentations from DjangoCon were Mark Ram's presentation on problems with Django, and what Django can learn from Zope's failures: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fipFKyW2FA4&feature=PlayList&p=D415FAF806EC47A1&index=12 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fipFKyW2FA4&feature=PlayL... Mark had some interesting stuff to say about being careful having a monolithic applications that's divorced from the rest of the Open source community and trying to integrate prior work from the Python community instead of building everything from scratch. For the non-Django people, there was a very interesting discussion on Journalism and Django, which talked a lot about the News Media, problems they are facing and possible technological solutions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgo8ZCHhMPs&feature=PlayList&p=D415FAF806EC47A1&index=9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgo8ZCHhMPs&feature=PlayL... I just thought that panel was very interesting, because the panelists talked about a lot of interesting problems in News organizations that startups might just be able to fill. All in all, DjangoCon on Google's campus was really great. It was heavy on the technical side of things, and light on the marketing/corporate rah-rah.