Oh man, what a day. I attended quite a few talks, grabbed a lot of swag, and entered a few contests. I ended up buying the Arduino Starter Kit from MAKE so I can do some awesome embedded Ruby like I saw at FOSCON. It looks really fun – I can’t wait to try it out. The talks I attended were half-way decent, but I learned a lot more on the first day. Hadoop and EC2 A good overview of [...]
I’ve been at OSCON 2008, and I’ve been keeping pretty good notes on the tutorials I’ve attended. GitHub has a great feature if you take notes in rdoc, making nice HTML when it’s viewed online. Here’s some links to my notes: Pro PostgreSQL This talk was alright, but it wasn’t really tailored for people who hadn’t used Postgres extensively. Yet, I’m sure the notes will come in handy in the future. Introduction to Django This was an awesome talk. He [...]
Today I found out they cancelled Ubuntu Live 2008 for unspecified reasons (I don’t know what they were thinking having it on the same days as OSCON, but whatever). It cost too much anyway ($800 for 2 days without tutorials is unacceptable IMHO). But, it’s still sad since Ubuntu is awesome. Now I can not attend the event guilt free since no one can!
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