Although it is a few days late, I thought I would post something about the last two days at OSCON to wrap it up.Thursday was a big improvement from Wednesday. The talks were more in sync with what I was interested in. The keynote was good. Bill Hilff from Microsoft’s Open Source Lab talked [...]
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OSCON
OSCON Day 1
Today was the first day of OSCON for me. The keynote was good. Seems like the emphasis is on parallelism this year. Interesting how a theme seems to emerge each conference (and I don’t think it is intentional).Intel’s Threading Building Blocks looks like a great project. I hadn’t seen anything about it until today. I [...]
To OSCON 2007
I’m packing and getting prepared to go to Portland for OSCON 2007. This is probably my favorite conference I regularly attend. Unlike the big corporate sponsored events like Microsoft’s PDC or Apple’s WWDC, I never feel like I am having stuff shoved down my throat. I like that I can walk out a talk and [...]