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Joe Gregorio
Software Engineer, Google

Website | @bitworking

Joe Gregorio is a software engineer, member of the AtomPub Workgroup and editor of the Atom Publishing Protocol. He has a deep interest in web technologies, writing “The RESTFul Web” column for the online O’Reilly publication XML.com, writing the first desktop aggregator written in C#, and publishing various Python modules to help in putting together RESTful web services.

Sessions

5:20pm Thursday, 07/24/2008

(The Lack of) Design Patterns in Python

Python
Location: Portland 256

Joe Gregorio (Google)

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In many dynamic language communities such as Python, there is a distinct lack of Design Patterns. Are the communities ignorant of Design Patterns or is there something else going on here? Read more.

10:45am Friday, 07/25/2008

Open Source and Standards

Web Applications
Location: D137

Joe Gregorio (Google), Zaheda Bhorat (Google Inc)