As you may know Kamaelia is a project I'm rather familar with (ok understatement), but one of the key ideas behind it is about how to make concurrency usable for everyday problems (from greylisting, database modelling assistance, though to learning to read & write). No one concurrency method suits everyone - as Jesse's recent series of posts shows (if you've not read them they're well worth it :), but Kamaelia's approach fits my head, and hopefully yours too. There may be a few areas where nicer syntactic sugar may be appropriate and so on, and feedback is always welcome - preferably to the project's google group/mailing list.

OK, the point of this post is that recently at O'Reilly Ignite UK North I gave a 5 minute talk which was essentially "what we've learnt about practical concurrency", and by necessity of time it's a whistle stop tour. The slides are on slideshare, and the video is on blip.tv - along with the rest of the talks - and by the magic of the internet they're below as well.

Embracing Concurrency (slides)

Embracing Concurrency (video)

Many thanks to Imran Ali of Carbon Imagineering and Craig Smith of O'Reilly GMT for organising a great evening of interesting talks!