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OSCON 2010: Environmental Monitoring with Arduino

Posted on Wednesday, 21 July 2010 by sirhc

Russell Nelson (Open Source Initiative) For my final session of the day, I’m in Environmental Monitoring with Arduino and Compatibles. Since I attended the Arduino tutorial on Monday, I thought it would be fun to attend a session on using … Continue reading →

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OSCON 2010: Smalltalk-style Traits

Posted on Wednesday, 21 July 2010 by sirhc

Curtis “Ovid” Poe (BBC) After a long break, an apple, a cup of coffee, and a beer, I’m back in the Perl track. The full title of this session is, Scratching the 40-Year Itch of Inheritance with Smalltalk-style Traits. This … Continue reading →

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OSCON 2010: Building Applications with the Simple Cloud API

Posted on Wednesday, 21 July 2010 by sirhc

Doug Tidwell (IBM) http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/schedule/detail/13976 I finally left the Perl track. I attended Tim Bunce’s presentation on Devel::NYTProf at OSCON two years ago and, while there have been many enhancements made to module since that time, I expect this year’s talk … Continue reading →

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OSCON 2010: PostgreSQL Reloaded

Posted on Wednesday, 21 July 2010 by sirhc

The full title of this session is PostgreSQL Reloaded – Hot Standby, Streaming Replication & More! It was presented by Chander Ganesan, who, even before the tutorial started, demonstrated his skill as a presenter. Reading his biography, I noted that … Continue reading →

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OSCON 2010: Cool Perl 6 Today

Posted on Wednesday, 21 July 2010 by sirhc

Patrick Michaud (pmichaud.com) I’m just back from lunch at Burgerville with Juan and Jonathan. On the way back into the convention center, I ran into Alasdair, who has been attending the hardware hacking sessions. That made me think that I … Continue reading →

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OSCON 2010: Perl 5.12

Posted on Wednesday, 21 July 2010 by sirhc

Jesse Vincent (Best Practical) This talk could be titled something along the lines of “Lessons Learned from Project Management.” Jesse Vincent is the current Perl 5 pumpking, which for the moment can be thought of as the project janitor. People … Continue reading →

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OSCON 2010: New Beginnings in Perl 5

Posted on Wednesday, 21 July 2010 by sirhc

Piers Cawley (BBC) After reviewing today’s session schedule, I quickly came to the conclusion that I will spend my entire day sitting in the room “Portland 256.” This is, apparently, where the Perl track is located. Paul Fenwick introduced Piers … Continue reading →

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OSCON 2010: Wednesday Morning Keynotes

Posted on Wednesday, 21 July 2010 by sirhc

I haven’t had a chance to compose my Tuesday blog posts.  Hopefully, I’ll find time throughout the day to work on them.  All that really means is that my posts will be chronologically out of order. It’s Wednesday morning at … Continue reading →

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OSCON 2010: Monday

Posted on Tuesday, 20 July 2010 by sirhc

I awoke early on this first day of theO’Reilly Open Source Convention so I could have breakfast with Juan at his hotel. At first I thought fresh-made omelettes, bacon, and sausage were simply a better choice than the fruit and … Continue reading →

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OSCON 2010: Get Started with the Arduino

Posted on Tuesday, 20 July 2010 by sirhc

The second tutorial I attended at OSCON on Monday was one I had regrettably skipped when I was last here in 2008: Get Started with the Arduino.  After purchasing my Getting Started with Arduino Kit for $69.95, I tore it … Continue reading →

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