Author: mradwin

Perl Lightning Talks

Wandering around after lunch, I stopped by the Perl Lightning Talks (slides) session. I was delighted to hear Autrijus Tang‘s five-minute rap These are 1% of my favourite CPAN… in Chinese, followed by an English translation sung to the tune of These are a few of my favorite things… from The Sound of Music. It […]

OSCON Wednesday morning

I bounced around on Wednesday between a bunch of different sessions. In the morning, I did some last-minute touch-ups on my slides, then caught the tail end of John Coggeshall’s Interfacing Java / COM with PHP. After my talk on One Year of PHP at Yahoo! (slides), I grabbed some lunch in the speaker’s room. […]

McWireless

I read today that McDonald’s is doing 802.11 in the San Francisco Bay Area. “McDonald’s and Wayport Bring High-Speed Wireless Access to 75 Restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area… McDonald’s is the first quick service restaurant to offer high-speed wireless access in a major market. The new Wi-Fi service will be available at approximately […]

Building Data Warehouses with MySQL

John Ashenfelter spoke about Building Data Warehouses with MySQL. After surveying the audience with some questions about what database technology people use and how much data they store, he described what he felt was the one and only reason to create a data warehouse: to answer business questions. The first two-thirds of the talk discussed […]

Designing and Creating Great Shared Libraries

Theodore Ts’o spoke about Designing and Creating Great Shared Libraries. It was a truly geeky talk, sprinkled with interesting historical trivia and packed with really useful guidelines and real-world examples. He started out by describing his personal history with shared libraries by descibing his involvement with Kerberos V5 and the Linux Standards Base. As a […]

“Urgent: MacOS X users, please turn off Rendezvous”

As Jeremy pointed out, the wireless network at OSCON was having problems this morning. During the break in the afternoon session, there were little laser-printed signs all around asking people to please disable Rendezvous as it’s causing interference. There were even instructions on how to turn it off! sudo mDNSResponder stop Perhaps the “Networking, simplified” […]

Introduction to XSLT

Sitting in a small room with about 20 other folks, I’m hoping to learn something about XSL and XSLT. Our instructor for this half-day tutorial is Mike Fitzgerald of Wy’east Communications (whose website appears to be unavailable right now). XSLT has been around for 3 or 4 years now, but this is the first time […]