Month: July 2003

Wandering around after lunch, I stopped by the Perl Lightning Talks (slides) session. I was delighted to hear Autrijus Tang‘s five-minute rap These are 1% of my favourite CPAN… in Chinese, followed by an English translation sung to the tune of These are a few of my favorite things… from The Sound of Music. It […]

I bounced around on Wednesday between a bunch of different sessions. In the morning, I did some last-minute touch-ups on my slides, then caught the tail end of John Coggeshall’s Interfacing Java / COM with PHP. After my talk on One Year of PHP at Yahoo! (slides), I grabbed some lunch in the speaker’s room. […]

Tim O’Reilly gave this morning’s keynote address, “The Open Source Paradigm Shift”. The talk was reminiscent of last year’s Watching The Alpha Geeks keynote at ApacheCon, although now he is able to say the phrase “paradigm shift” with a straight face. Largely the talk was trying to make the case that we shouldn’t try to […]

Slides for my talk tomorrow, One Year of PHP at Yahoo! are now available online. The talk will be from 11:30am – 12:15pm in Salon D.

John Ashenfelter spoke about Building Data Warehouses with MySQL. After surveying the audience with some questions about what database technology people use and how much data they store, he described what he felt was the one and only reason to create a data warehouse: to answer business questions. The first two-thirds of the talk discussed […]

Theodore Ts’o spoke about Designing and Creating Great Shared Libraries. It was a truly geeky talk, sprinkled with interesting historical trivia and packed with really useful guidelines and real-world examples. He started out by describing his personal history with shared libraries by descibing his involvement with Kerberos V5 and the Linux Standards Base. As a […]

As Jeremy pointed out, the wireless network at OSCON was having problems this morning. During the break in the afternoon session, there were little laser-printed signs all around asking people to please disable Rendezvous as it’s causing interference. There were even instructions on how to turn it off! sudo mDNSResponder stop Perhaps the “Networking, simplified” […]

Sitting in a small room with about 20 other folks, I’m hoping to learn something about XSL and XSLT. Our instructor for this half-day tutorial is Mike Fitzgerald of Wy’east Communications (whose website appears to be unavailable right now). XSLT has been around for 3 or 4 years now, but this is the first time […]

I’m at OSCON 2003 in Portland this week. I’ve created a new “Open Source” category in my blog for entries that I type up during this event. Most useful feature: built-in spell-check. I’m also testing out my first post using the Zempt blogging tool.