Sean Mountcastle

Now that OSCON is over, I like to make an attempt at distilling my thoughts on the conference. Last year I wrote a lengthy post on my observations; this year it’s going to be short.

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Below are my notes from the third and final day of sessions here at OSCON. The talks I attended were:

• Practical OpenID
• Highly-technical Management of Software Development

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Below are my notes from the second day of sessions here at OSCON. The talks I attended were:

• Subversion Best Practices
• haXe: A Cross-platform Web Language
• Building DSLs in Ruby
• Testing Rails Apps
• When Interface Design Attacks!
• Web Heresies: The Seaside Framework

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Below are my notes from the first day of sessions here at OSCON. The talks I attended were:

• Using Ruby on Rails to Build a Massive Multiplayer Game
• Easy AI with Python
• Driving Rails Deep into the Back Office
• Streamlined
• Ruby for Java Programmers
• Coding Wizard, Savvy Trader

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Tonight I was able to attend FOSCON II at FreeGeek (I wish they’d hold FOSCON at the OCC so it wasn’t such a hassle to get there and back – but I will say the volunteers who walked us down there and then drove us back did make it easier). Follow the link below for brief summaries of the presentations and links to them.

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Tonight the opening keynotes for OSCON were held. After the Google/O’Reilly Open Source Awards, Larry Wall gave his annual State of the Onion in which he talked about his other ‘child’, Perl, and how she’s growing into adulthood (Perl will be 20 years old this year). After Larry, the White Camel Awards were given out.

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