Season 3, Episode 3 – Godefroid Chapelle

24/12/2023 1h 31min
Season 3, Episode 3 – Godefroid Chapelle

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Godefroid Chapelle is a longtime Zope and Plone developer who first encountered Zope in its hectic heyday and was a participant at the first in-person Plone sprint. We cover a lot of ground in this episode as Godefroid reflects on: his origins as a programmerbeing present at the first EuroPythonthe difference between hackathons and sprintsthe culture of organizations and communitiesmonkey patching as conflict avoidancehow Zope's component architecture enabled Plone's diverse communityreading code as poetrythe importance of mentoring in codingtools that teach best practicesrepeatability with buildout and NixHashicorpthe main selling point of ZopeRust and other typed languagesPython tracebacks and the topology of code.