Daily Archives: Wednesday, 23 July 2008

OSCON 2008: An Illustrated History of Failure

Posted on Wednesday, 23 July 2008 by sirhc

For my final session of the day, I’m in D139/140 for An Illustrated History of Failure with Paul Fenwick. I attended Paul’s Perl security talk yesterday, which was deciding factor in my attendance here. I figure it will have to … Continue reading →

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OSCON 2008: Moblin.org

Posted on Wednesday, 23 July 2008 by sirhc

Continuing my afternoon tradition of attending sessions with absurdly long names, I’m in D136 at Moblin.org: The Community for Linux on Mobile Internet Devices (MID), netbooks, nettops and More…. It’s being presented by Dirk Hohndel, who I just overheard agreed … Continue reading →

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OSCON 2008: Linux on the Corporate Desktop: We Did It, and You Can Too

Posted on Wednesday, 23 July 2008 by sirhc

The second of my mid-afternoon sessions is Linux on the Corporate Desktop: We Did It, and You Can Too with John Goerzen. This session popped out at me because we have a similar initiative at work. The company John works … Continue reading →

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“Ninja” Code

Posted on Wednesday, 23 July 2008 by sirhc

The Amazon booth at OSCON 2008 is advertising heavily that they are hiring. They are also holding a raffle. To enter, simple look over some Perl code they have written out on some poster board and tell them what it … Continue reading →

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OSCON 2008: Code Reviews for Fun and Profit

Posted on Wednesday, 23 July 2008 by sirhc

Lunch is over and I’m sitting in Code Reviews for Fun and Profit with Alex Martelli. I really wanted to go to the Perl 6 talk, but I always end up going home disappointed, because I don’t yet have Perl … Continue reading →

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OSCON 2008: Beautiful Concurrency with Erlang

Posted on Wednesday, 23 July 2008 by sirhc

My second session of the day is Beautiful Concurrency with Erlang. I’m here for two reasons. First, Erlang looks cool; second, the speaker, Kevin Scaldeferri, is a friend of mine. Erlang is a pure functional language (and thus no side-effects) … Continue reading →

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OSCON 2008: Strawberry Perl: Achieving Win32 Platform Equality

Posted on Wednesday, 23 July 2008 by sirhc

My first session of the day is Strawberry Perl: Achieving Win32 Platform Equality, presented by Adam Kennedy. Originally, I had considered a Parrot talk, but I saw a similar talk at SCALE6x, and I happened upon Adam on IRC this … Continue reading →

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OSCON 2008: Wednesday Morning Keynotes

Posted on Wednesday, 23 July 2008 by sirhc

Kicking off the official start of OSCON on Wednesday morning is Allison Randal welcoming us to the 10th annual O’Reilly Open Source Conference. She gave us an overview of what we could expect from this year’s conference. Mostly, it’s about … Continue reading →

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OSCON 2008: Day 3

Posted on Wednesday, 23 July 2008 by sirhc

It’s Wednesday, which means it’s day three of OSCON—day one for those here only for the sessions or expo hall. The tutorials and the Tuesday Night Extravaganza are behind us. Three days of sessions and two days of expo hall … Continue reading →

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