OSCON, Day 2: Tutorials Part the Second
The weather is cooler today (about 10° cooler than the norm, according to the local station), and the walk over from the hotel (about 5-10 minutes) was a great way to start the day. I actually read...
View ArticleOSCON 08 Tutorial Days Wrap-up
With the two days of tutorials over, I just wanted to do a quick re-cap, with some thoughts on my experience this year, and some observations. In previous years, I’ve picked tutorials that seemed cool...
View ArticleThe OSCON Kick-off Keynotes: Tuesday Evening
In an interesing change, there were opening keynotes Tuesday evening by some big speakers that are usually reserved for major conference timeslots. It could be that O’Reilly knows from past experience...
View ArticleMidweek at OSCON: Start of the Conference Proper
Despite the usual flood of newcomers to the conference (a lot of people don’t come to the tutorials), the morning breakfast and keynotes didn’t feel any more crowded. With the keynotes almost over,...
View ArticleOSCON Day 4
Thursday already…the pace is such that if you choose to be, you’re really busy, moving from one talk to the next, to the expo hall, chatting with people, and before you know it, the evening’s activites...
View ArticleMore Social Networking For Me, Thanks to OSCON
Looking through my blog’s archive, I never did blog about my getting started with Facebook, but I’m blaming, er, crediting the 2008 O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON). They had put up a note that...
View ArticleHeading to OSCON 2009!
I leave tomorrow for California, spending a few days in the Berkeley/SF area before heading to San Jose to attend OSCON 2009. Each year I say I’m going to blog the conference, and each year I do a...
View ArticleOSCON Day 1
And so it begins! The move of the conference to San Jose this year was done under the reason of out-growing Portland, mostly the convention center (which was definitely the case). However, it wasn’t...
View ArticleOSCON Day 2
With a only a couple of tutorials and an evening intro thing, there wasn’t much going on to report. My morning tutorial was Damian Conway’s “7 Principles of Better API Design”, which was fantastic....
View ArticleOSCON Day 3: Now the Fun Begins
My hat is certainly off to those for whom blogging is either a way of life or a profession. I feel as though I was dragged through the day yesterday, barely able to keep up with moving from one part of...
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