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OSCON 2005 – Extracting Rails from Basecamp
Last session of the day. More rails! Extracting Rails from Basecamp Basecamp came from 37 Signals. Less people, more power Less money, more value Less resources, better use Less time, better time Trust – the best technical decisions come from technical people when it comes down to developing applications. Start w/ least amount of resource [...]
Best Hacker of the Year
Congrats to David Heinemeier Hansson for the O’Reilly/Google best hacker of the year
OSCON 2005 – State of the opensource databases
Ingres _ by CA_ Ingres r3 is the version which was put into opensource. Features Value based table partitioning (a-c go here d-x go here, etc) can partition tables based on value of records No application change required parallel query execution may utlize more than one cpu on MP machines for a single query. single [...]
OSCON 2005 – Webwork vs. Spring spackdown
Matt Raible and Matthew Porter Not much to report here. Mostly a bitch session about what’s wrong w/ java frameworks. I could not help but feel sorry after using rails for the last couple of months. Matt and Matthew are both good presenters. Good light presentation for the day.
OSCON 2005 – Firefox extension development
Tools – XPIStubs (pronounced Zippy Stubs) Use this and forget half of what you need to know. Still needs some work. Speaker looks like Hani (bileblog) Looks like this tool stubs out everything you need to develop firefox extensions. Run the program to stub out program, do a ./configure make and it installs a plugin [...]
OSCON 2005 Keynote
Over the keynote was just OK. Not terribly exciting. Tim O’Reilly is an awsome speaker as always. He seemed to keep it short this time for some reason. one thing he said that struck a chord, was once you create an standard, values moves up the stack. He believes opensource is doing this now, moving [...]
OSCON 2005 – Learning XSLT
This update is late since my server was down during the track. Also my notes were pretty shoddy since there was so much info I was trying to digest plus I was getting sick during the track. My ribs ached and I my teeth were chattering b/c I was so cold. I believe I had [...]
bidwell down (AGAIN!)
Well it was yesterday during OSCON and prevented me from blogging. This is getting nuts. Seems to be occurring 2-3 times/week lately. I really like textdrive but the downtime is getting really annoying. Particularly since I am trying to blog OSCON and the server goes down right in the middle of a track. They are [...]
OSCON 2005 – Learning Ajax
Demos and slides You’ll walk away with Enought code to be dangerous Damn. I thought I was already dangerous. Crap. Demo Life in a text area Interesting – autosave in a textarea – much like autosave in a text editor or something like MS Word. What is ajax still being defined – good portion still [...]
OSCON 2005 – Day 2
On the agenda for today is “Learning Ajax” with Alex Russell and probably the XSLT track with Lentz. As much as I hate XSLT, I should probably go because I am having to use it for my current project. Perhaps I’ll learn something. Was just looking over my blog from yesterday, and they pretty much [...]