SQLAlchemy and Elixir at PyATL Tonight · Thursday, August 9, 2007

I will be speaking at tonight’s PyATL meeting in Atlanta on SQLAlchemy and Elixir, including a sneak peek at some goodies that will be in the upcoming 0.4 release of Elixir.

I’ll update this post with my slides and examples when I return from the meeting late this evening.

UPDATE: Slides are now available here. Examples for SQLAlchemy and for elixir are also available.

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  1. Ah, phooey. I just moved from Atlanta to Cambridge, MA, otherwise I’d love to hear the talk. Incidentally, the upcoming Python UG meet-up here is featuring a talk on Storm. Could still be interesting, but I’m learning Pylons, and Elixir looks juicy!

    SQLAlchemy seems like an awesome beast, and I’m far from wrangling it at this point. I’ll have to check back for your presentation materials.

    Are you an Atlanta local?
    — Ches Martin    1743 days ago    #
  2. Great talk Jonathan! All of our company that attended got excited about the things to come in Elixir that you mentioned. It was definitely worth dragging our butts out of Rocky Mountain Pizza
    — Mark Jones    1743 days ago    #
  3. Ches – Yep, I live in Dunwoody, just outside the perimeter. SQLAlchemy is indeed an amazingly powerful beast, as you say, and I think it has many distinct advantages over Storm.

    Mark – Thanks for the complements! It was good to see you guys all there.
    — Jonathan LaCour    1742 days ago    #
  4. Thanks for the talk last night Jonathan, it was helpful. You were right when you said the description of SQLAlchemy was a bit daunting at first glance, but your walk-through was very clear.
    — Doug Hellmann    1742 days ago    #
  5. Great talk, I agree. I am already playing around with a little bit of Elixir. What do you think about a Ruby/Python friendly shootout? I think that would be pretty nifty.

    We are hoping to get your talk propped up on the PyAtl YouTube channel as well.
    — Noah Gift    1742 days ago    #
  6. Noah – yeah, something like that would be fun, say in 2-3 months when we finish up some more fancy stuff for Elixir ;)

    Can’t wait to see the video up on YouTube. Let me know when its up, or if you need any help.
    — Jonathan LaCour    1742 days ago    #
  7. Nice rundown Jonathan.

    I noticed the versioning while poking around SVN the other day. Encryption and associables are equally cool. I assume we’ll see docs for them in the next release, but is there anywhere that we can peek at associable docs now (outside the source ;-))?

    I’ll keep a lookout for the YouTube video—I’d imagine the exposition goes a bit further than the slides :-)

    Any present thoughts on inheritance, or is it there and I just don’t know it? At the point that I need inheritance, I could probably just turn to SQLA. Just comes as a natural question thinking in terms of a feature matrix with the Rails implementation (not that that needs to be a goal).
    — Ches Martin    1742 days ago    #
  8. Ches – All of the extensions and the extension API will be documented for the upcoming 0.4 release, but the best place to look at this point is still the source code (for now). Keep an eye out for updates soon :)

    As for inheritance, the current release of Elixir provides limited support for inheritance, but the version is SVN that will make up the 0.4 release will support the full, powerful multi-table polymorphic inheritance that SQLAlchemy allows for in a very seamless way. Look at the unit test suite for examples for now, but again, we’ll be documenting this for the 0.4 release.
    — Jonathan LaCour    1742 days ago    #

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