2006 July | Lazycoder

26Jul/060

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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25Jul/060

OSCON tutorial: Real world web services

I left 1/2 way through this one. I got tired of reading about code and wanted to go write some code. You can only watch someone read slides for so long.

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24Jul/060

OSCON Tutorial: Mastering vim

vim 7 rulez!

Branched undos.

neat.

More later after my fingers stop throbbing. I think I wore out my “:” key.

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24Jul/060

OSCON tutorial: Ruby Guidebook

I went to the Ruby Guidebook tutorial by Dave Thomas and Mike Clark this morning. It was pretty dull. They just went through their slide deck, sometimes they would talk ahead of their slides. They did have a companion manual to use during the class. It was just a printout of their deck. I was really under-whelmed. Most of the information they gave us could be found in “Ruby in a Nutshell”. I was hoping for more insight into Ruby. What makes the language really tick. I’m at this weird, in-between place with Ruby. I know enough that the “intro to Ruby” courses are boring, but I don’t really know enough to make Ruby really sing yet.

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24Jul/063

At OSCON

I made it to Portland for OSCON 2006. As with most Open Source, the documentation left a lot to be desired. The directions to the Doubletree hotel given on the OSCON website were wrong, wrong, wrong. They put me on the wrong side of the river. Had to call the front desk to get me unlost. Luckily, I had been to downtown and the Chinatown district once before, because that’s where I ended up.

I”m hosting a BOF tomorrow night at the con, “Open Source in Healthcare”. It’s my first BOF and I’m not sure what to do. I’m mostly looking for a conversation between people working in the healthcare industry about what OSS they use or have used. What works, what doesn’t. What still needs to be written. No free WiFI at the hotel. Just a hardline ethernet that I have to pay for so Doubletree–; for me.

Ah, the stench of B.O. was heavy in the elevator and hallway and there were plenty of pasty, flabby bodies poolside. The geeks have arrived.

On a side note, apparently Portland rolls up it’s sidewalks and closes down at 9PM on a Sunday. I had to go to the hotel bar to get a beer in the microbrew capital of the west coast.