Lazycoder

OSCON Keynote

Amazingly enough, the WiFi is still up. Hats off to the network guys.

Tim O’Reilly is on stage now. I saw him at a coffee shop this morning. I told him that the USA today weather map was full of crap. (It was trying to show a heat wave, so they only used “hot” colors. For example, bright yellow was 60 deg. F, bright orange was 80 deg. F. It made almost the entire map look “hot”). Guess I should have said, “Nice conference, love the books.”

Man, I’m tired of seeing snapshots of the Google API page.
He’s showing a graph of book sales. I don’t see .NET anywhere on the graph. Interesting. His comments about infrastructure is true. It’s too expensive to host a highly used app by yourself.

Anil Dash had a great presentation. I think the theme for these keynotes is, “Don’t forget your roots. Don’t sell out.”

On a side note, O’Reilly media is selling MAKe magazine at the booth for $12, Powell Books is selling Make magazine at the official OSCON book stand about 100 feet away for $14.95 with a 35% discount. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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