"OSCON" entries

Four short links: 17 Feb 2009

Four short links: 17 Feb 2009

by Nat Torkington | @gnat | +Nat Torkington | February 17, 2009

Four Tuesday quickies:

  1. The Technology Behind Coraline — 3D stop-motion movie used a 3D printer to make the dolls and things like drops of water.
  2. Some OSCON Proposal Tips (Alex Russell) — good advice for anyone submitting a talk to a technical conference.
  3. Oscar Predictions You Can Bet On — Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight turns his attention to the Oscars.
  4. Web Hooks and the Programmable Web of Tomorrow — a epic presentation of different ways to offer and use callbacks, URLs on your site that a remote service can hit when something happens on their service. (via Stinky)

OSCON moves to San Jose

by Allison Randal | October 1, 2008

The official word is out, OSCON 2009 will be moving from Portland, Oregon to San Jose, California. We've received significant positive feedback on the move, and messages of welcome from Bay Area open source contacts, but also some messages of disappointment from the local Portland open source community, and from non-local attendees who enjoyed visiting Portland every year. We're also…

Random OSCON Tidbits

by Nat Torkington | @gnat | +Nat Torkington | August 1, 2008

Some things I learned about at the Django/Python meetup in downtown Portland during OSCON: JS Bridge: a Python to Javascript bridge for all Mozilla applications, still under very active development (i.e., changing daily). 960.gs: a grid framework for Javascript (replacing Blueprint CSS) with a naming scheme that makes prototyping designs a lot less painful. Dojo has Django Templates: I take…

Open Source and Cloud Computing

by Tim O'Reilly | @timoreilly | +Tim O'Reilly | July 31, 2008

I've been worried for some years that the open source movement might fall prey to the problem that Kim Stanley Robinson so incisively captured in Green Mars: "History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do." Innovators are left behind, as the world they've changed picks up on their ideas, runs with them, and takes them…

OSCON in 37 Minutes

by Nat Torkington | @gnat | +Nat Torkington | July 29, 2008

The wonderful Gregg Pollack, of Rails Envy fame, wandered the halls and speaker room at OSCON with his video camera. He asked a pile of speakers to summarize their talks in 30 seconds or less, and has compiled the results into “OSCON in 37 Minutes”. It’s well worth watching even if you were at the conference—as anyone who’s attended knows,…

OSCON day 3: Reflections on OSCON 2008

by Robert Kaye | July 25, 2008

Today was the last day of OSCON and I'm in the mood to think about the conference and share some of my random observations that didn't make it into any of my other blog posts. First up is a comment that Brian Aker of MySQL fame made during the "Tim O'Reilly Interviews Monty Widenius & Brian Aker" interview: Microsoft…

OSCON day 2: Do You Believe in the Users?

by Robert Kaye | July 25, 2008

After enjoying Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick's comments on the anti-patterns panel yesterday, I decided to peek into their "Do You Believe in the Users?" presentation. Ben and Fitz started the presentation with "Successful software requires more than just technical effort." as their premise and then went on to build on that premise. Ben and Fitz used the analogy…

OSCON day 2: Prophet, your path out of the cloud

by Robert Kaye | July 24, 2008

Some of you may know Jesse Vincent as the guy who hands out snarky t-shirts like last year's "My free software runs your business" shirt. But today I got to see Jesse's more serious side when I attended his "Prophet, your path out of the cloud" presentation. He started his session by outlining why cloud computing may not be…

OSCON day 1: An Open Source Project Called "Failure:" Community Antipatterns to Know and Avoid

by Robert Kaye | July 24, 2008

The second session of the day that really appealed to me was "An Open Source Project Called "Failure:" Community Antipatterns to Know and Avoid". When I saw that Ben and Fitz of subversion fame were joined by other open source heavy weights, I was sold on this panel. In this panel each member presented one anti-pattern in open source…

OSCON day 1: Beyond REST? Building Data Services with XMPP PubSub

by Robert Kaye | July 23, 2008

Its good to be back in Portland for my favorite geek convention: O'Reilly's Open Source Conference. The overcast sky in Portland is making it a little easier this year to focus on the plethora of excellent speakers and sessions. The first session to really grip and and speak to me was Rabble and Kellan's "Beyond REST? Building Data Services…