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 [...]
I went to 5 sessions today, and I was pleasantly surprised by most of them. CouchDB CouchDB is a distributed non-relational database written in Erlang. It is unique in that its main query interface is simply HTTP REST, and for every UPDATE, it simply creates a new version of the row. Additionally, you can request [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Well, we went to the firefox party: It was pretty cool – we got some swag and stuffs.
I’ll be hosting a GPG/PGP and CACert BoF at this year’s OSCON. I’m very excited. Looks like I also might become a GSWoT GSI. Amazing.
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Heh – check this out. Apparently, i was quoted as saying: hardwarehank: ahhh the vim tut is friggin aawesome. This is hilarious. Look at my terrible spelling. it might was well read …aawesome LOL!!1!1oen!!!one.
