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.
John Paul Ashenfelter gave an interesting tutorial called Rock-solid Web Development: Testing Web Apps. The slides are available here. I’d heard about Selenium before this presentation, but never took the time to investigate it – after seeing it used here I’ve already installed it and set it up to test my Rails app.
This morning I attended Stuart Halloway’s Ajax on Rails tutorial. The slides from his presentation are available here, here and here. This was the first time I’d attended one of Stuart’s presentations and I was impressed by his relaxed presentation style. He also seems to be a genuinely nice fellow – during the break, I spoke briefly with him to see if he would be interested in speaking about Streamlined to the NoVA RUG.
This afternoon I attended Asterisk Inside and Out by Brian Capouch. His presentation is available here while all of the Asterisk configuration files can be obtained here. The tutorial was based on his forthcoming book, Asterisk Inside and Out: Do-it-yourself Open Source Telephony, from Addison-Wesley.
This morning I attended Amy Hoy’s JavaScript Boot Camp tutorial. The slides should be available online shortly at Amy’s website – I’ll update this post once she publishes them.
She provided a good overview of JavaScript as a language, some of the issues with the various implementations, how to debug it and some of the libraries available for use.
Updated: The slides are located here.
I’ve made it to OSCON ‘06 after being stuck in a plane sitting at the gate for almost two hours at Dulles airport. I’m dead tired so stay tune for coverage over the course of the conference.
