I’m at ETech, where there have been some great presentations. But during his keynote this morning, Jon Udell momentarily had a problem where the window he was using was larger than his screen real estate. And this reminded me of one of my pet peeves.
Why the hell do conference projectors still support a resolution of no more than 800 x 600?! There is simply no excuse for this anymore—and there hasn’t been for, what, a decade?
That is all. Thank you.
Joy of Tech gives you: What’s really behind a Steve Jobs keynote.
I think they nailed it.
I just saw that the OSCON 2006 Call for Participation has gone up. Deadline is February 13, 2006. I’ve been thinking about some of the things I’d like to see:
The PostgreSQL equivalent of this presentation, in which Flickr’s John Allspaw (hi John!) offers up advice on how to configure hardware, replication, and proxies for a busy MySQL-based site. Can Slony-I scale out in the same way? How does it work? I’d love to see someone who’s had to make a busy PostgreSQL-based site scale up to massive load tell us how it was done.
Something about an open-source JavaScript library project. I know that there are a number of them, each with its advantages and disadvantages. I’d love to see a successful, general repository for reusable, well-tested JavaScript libraries. Me, as a Perl guy, I’m partial to the CPAN model, which has been enormously successful. Will JSAN have similar success?
I’m sure I’ll think of others in the coming weeks. What ideas do you have? Post them below!
Kineticode has posted PDF versions of my my OSCON 2005 presentation slides. Direct links:
What’s New in Bricolage
Polymorhic Database Design(a.k.a.
How to Move Object/Relational Mapping into the Database
Enjoy!
I just had to share this lovely picture of Nick Clark, taken on the Friday night of OSCon 2004 at Matt Sergeant’s party. I honestly have no idea what Nick was doing, but it was worth it for the photo, don’t you think?
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