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OSCON 2007 (July 25)

2007.07.25 Wed 7:58 P GMT-07
I arrived in Portland last night for OSCON. From a conference standpoint, it feels very similar to when I attended in 2005. The attendance hasn't grown much and the exhibition hall is about the same size. Though there appear to be a few more "comm
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Ajax explosion

2005.10.06 Thu 3:27 P GMT-07
With OpenOffice 3.0 (the AJAX edition) in the works, I thought I'd join the bandwagon and do a more with AJAX. So I have a dilemma. Much like in the python world (where it is really easy to implement what you want) where there exists many slightly
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Are there areas where Open Source won't work?

2005.08.08 Mon 11:24 P GMT-07
One of the biggest shockers for me at OSCON happened during the first day. I was sitting in the second row of the Rails session and I looked behind me to see what type of laptops people were using. I would guess that 80% were PowerBooks. Of the x8
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Trying out Django

2005.08.08 Mon 10:51 P GMT-07
Having Ruby on Rails pounded into me for 5 straight days (it seemed to be a theme of OSCON) caused me to try out Django tonight. I've only finished the 2nd tutorial but it's pretty impressive what's in there. The only thing that seems a little
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Gems from OSCON

2005.08.06 Sat 12:11 A GMT-07
I'm going through my OSCON notes and compiling a list of interesting websites or notes. The websites will be found here: Yaml - This is the markup language the Ruby on Rails is using rather than xml. There are bindings for various languages. Th
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Trip back from OSCON (Rob Kaye's crazy hair)

2005.08.05 Fri 11:11 P GMT-07
I'm back from OSCON and had a great time. It was fun to meet and talk with so many interesting people. One of the most interesting I met after the conference en route home. While in the airport standing in the queue to get on the plane Rob Kaye wa

2005 OSCON Ruby on Rails Presentation

2005.08.02 Tue 7:56 P GMT-07
I'm up at OSCON and have attended 4 sessions in the past two days. My favorite so far was the Rails talk.David did a great job presenting, and I was very impressed by the fra
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