• Season 3, Episode 3 – Godefroid Chapelle

  • Dec 24 2023
  • Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
  • Podcast
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Season 3, Episode 3 – Godefroid Chapelle

  • Summary

  • 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 programmer
    • being present at the first EuroPython
    • the difference between hackathons and sprints
    • the culture of organizations and communities
    • monkey patching as conflict avoidance
    • how Zope's component architecture enabled Plone's diverse community
    • reading code as poetry
    • the importance of mentoring in coding
    • tools that teach best practices
    • repeatability with buildout and Nix
    • Hashicorp
    • the main selling point of Zope
    • Rust and other typed languages
    • Python tracebacks and the topology of code.
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