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Latest tagged entries for 'FOSS2005'



The real benefits of Open Office

2006.01.10 Tue 9:01 A GMT-07
My buddy Matt has an interesting post on the problems with Open Office. I would argue that Open Office along with Firefox are two of the most important and successful Open Source applications for the mass of humanity (I'm not discounting Linux (

What format to use for a (dead tree) journal? (2006 New years goal)

2006.01.08 Sun 11:09 P GMT-07
I've been blogging for almost a year now and have found it quite enjoyable. Writing is quite therapeutic, and it makes you think about stuff a little more than you normally would. One of my most valuable possessions is a 300 page tome, my grandfath

Another picture from India

2005.12.15 Thu 9:58 P GMT-07
This is the Bangalore Palace. Site of FOSS 2005.

Visualizing the commercialization of open source

2005.12.15 Thu 9:43 P GMT-07
This morning I had a few hours to myself in a jetlagged induced stupor. It was refreshing to sit and watch the sunrise, yet disappointing to realize I had driven to work only to be locked out for an hour. So I had some time to ponder. Being the vi

I impersonate Alax Cox at FOSS

2005.12.05 Mon 10:54 P GMT-07
One of the nice things about conferences is the oppurtunity to meet new people.  It was nice to be able to mingle with Alan Cox for a little bit while fighting for Pizza at FOSS.  Talking with Seemant was cool too.  Props to those comm

Generate twill scripts and mechanize unittests from TestGen4Web

2005.12.05 Mon 10:44 P GMT-07
While attending FOSS.IN, one of the sessions was a website security session. I only caught the tail end, but it felt very similar to a session at OSCON this year by Nitesh. I also attended part of Rasmus' talk where he talked about a tool

FOSS Day 3

2005.12.01 Thu 9:04 A GMT-07
Today started off with a bang with a keynote by Andrew Cowie. He did an excellent job speaking and wasn't afraid to ruffle feathers. One of the best parts was his proposal to change Linux to "Open Office/Mozilla/Apache/Perl/Gnu/Linux

FOSS Day 2 (the kernel, turbogears, google and gentoo)

2005.11.30 Wed 9:36 A GMT-07
Today was the second day of FOSS. I'll jot down my observations from today.The first talk I attended was from LWN's Jonathon Corbet. He discussed recent happenings in the Linux kernel. He noted that the development cycle of the kern

Report from FOSS 2005 (day 1)

2005.11.29 Tue 7:27 A GMT-07
I made it to India intact. I haven't really slept much in the past 48 hours, so forgive the typos. The FOSS conference is being held outside of the palace of Bangalore. The schedule got kind of messed up and many of the talks were d