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OSCON 2010: Friday Morning Plenary Sessions
I’m tired this morning after a long week at OSCON, so my ability to understand and summarize the Friday plenary sessions is diminished. As such, what follows won’t be terribly useful to anyone. Your Work in Open Source, 3 years … Continue reading
OSCON 2010: State of the Onion
The Thursday sessions are over, but before I head out to the parties, I’m attending the 14th State of the Onion address. This is the always well-attended update on the universe of Perl. I immediately noticed that Larry is surrounded … Continue reading
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Tagged Larry Wall, live demo, OSCON, oscon2010, Perl, perl 6, Rakudo Star, State of the Onion, uncertainty
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OSCON 2010: Awesome Things You’ve Missed in Perl
Paul Fenwick (Perl Training Australia) Ever since I saw An Illustrated History of Failure two years ago, I’ve made it a point to see @pjf‘s talks. That’s how I find myself in his mid-afternoon session, Awesome Things You’ve Missed in … Continue reading
OSCON 2010: Dist::Zilla
Ricardo Signes (Pobox.com) The full title of this talk is, Dist::Zilla – Maximum Overkill for CPAN Distributions. Every CPAN distribution contains a significant amount of crap. It’s infrastructure used for the distribution tools. ExtUtils::MakeMaker has been the traditional way to … Continue reading
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Tagged cpan, Development, Dist::Zilla, distribution, framework, laziness, OSCON, oscon2010, Perl, session
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OSCON 2010: Thursday Plenary Session
This morning’s plenary session, based on the scheduled speakers, is focused on the nebulous cloud. The cloud is what everyone in technology talks about, but everyone defines differently. It’s the section of the flow chart where magic happens. Somehow, we … Continue reading
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Tagged cloud, data, keynotes, open, OSCON, oscon2010, thursday
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OSCON 2010: Hands-on Cassandra
The second tutorial I attended on Tuesday, and the last one of the conference, was Hands-on Cassandra. Actually, I missed the first half of this tutorial, for reasons which I explain in my Tuesday recap post. I’ve been told by … Continue reading
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Tagged cassandra, database, distributed, expo, OSCON, oscon2010, tutorial
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OSCON 2010: Environmental Monitoring with Arduino
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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Tagged arduino, data, Environment, hacking, hardware, hobbies, monitoring, OSCON, oscon2010
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OSCON 2010: Smalltalk-style Traits
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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Tagged inheritance, OSCON, oscon2010, Perl, Programming, roles, smalltalk, traits
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OSCON 2010: Building Applications with the Simple Cloud API
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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Tagged abstraction, cloud, libcloud, OSCON, oscon2010, session, standards
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