[wellylug] [Wellington-pm] Kiwi PyCon Media Statement - "How a programming language is changing the Web"

[Bruce Hoult]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:07 PM, David Antliff <david.antliff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 21:12, Tim Knapp <duffyd at kokorice.org> wrote:
>>> In summary: Wellington - mostly software. Christchurch - mostly hardware.
>
> Interesting - I'd never thought of "IT" being covered by the "Silicon
> Valley" idea.
>
> I work in Wellington - having studied CompSci in Wellington and
> Electrical Engineering graduate in Christchurch, this sounds pretty
> right to me. I've never considered Wellington to be a particularly
> great place for EE types like me to work (electronics, hardware,
> embedded software, signal processing) - I'm lucky to have a great job
> with one of the few companies that do this sort of stuff in
> Wellington. Hmm, actually, we're in the Hutt ;)

I recently spent three years working for a company on Courtenay Place
writing a Java compiler for embedded systems, namely mobile phones,
some of which had a 1 MHz CPU and 390 KB of RAM. And unlike most
embedded work, we often didn't have any on-device debugging capability
at *all*. Rn your code, phone reboots, it's BIG heady scratchy time.