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  • OSCON08 Wrap-up

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    A few things to wrap up. The Stress on Programmers Slides Man oh man I wish there was a recording of the talk. I looked over the slides and they don’t do the talk justice by themselves as one might expect. Glenn posted some comments that I think have the slides for the XMPP talk…

  • OSCON08 Day 2

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    Today’s keynotes didn’t do much for me. The first guy was trying to justify intellectual property as a concept. Epic fail. The rest weren’t really all that noteworthy other than a good message to stop whinging. I’m a bad whinger. Two things I’ve noticed about the conference so far: For supposedly smart people, everyone seems…

  • OSCON08 Day 1

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    Breakfast was tasty, but the good grub was dwarfed by the conversation at the table. I sat down at a table of four or five guys and no one seemed to know each other. These two guys who were both in their mid 40’s kept trying to out-geek each other. It was really quite unintentionally…

  • OSCON08 Day 0

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    I gave myself plenty of time to get to the ATL airport and I’m very glad I did. It ended up taking around 3 hours just for the drive. Once I got there, all of the airport parking-lots were full. I eventually found a place to park in Park & Ride, got on the bus…