4 Aug, 2005
Why the lucky stiff dazzled the audience with his performance art piece entitled, A Starry Afternoon, a Sinking Symphony, and the Polo Champ Who Gave It All Up for No Reason Whatsoever. My mind was blown and my gut busted. O’Reilly should hold a Monday Night Extravaganza at next year’s OSCON and give the entire night to Why (and his band, The Thirsty Cups). My (very limited) notes are below.
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4 Aug, 2005
Glenn Vanderburg presented on Metaprogramming Ruby. I thought it was quite interesting as I had only done this previously in ANSI Common Lisp. My notes from the talk are below.
4 Aug, 2005
Richard Kilmer (from InfoEther, right in my backyard!) gave an amazing presentation/demo on ActionStep. He even took the time late last night/ealry this morning to build a demo with a Ruby on Rails back-end. Here are my notes from the session:
4 Aug, 2005
Matz presented Yield to the Block: The Power of Blocks in Ruby at OSCON this morning. His slides are here.
4 Aug, 2005
The OSCON Thursday Keynotes had the following speakers:
- Conference Announcements - Nat Torkington, Conference Chair, O’Reilly Media, Inc.
- TCP/IP and Shipping Containers - Nick Gall, MetaGroup
- High Order Bit: Secrets Behind Ruby on Rails - David Heinemeier Hansson, 37Signals
- Enterprise IT: Open Source Powerhouse - Kartik Subbarao, HP
- Computational Origami: From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes - Robert Lang
- Interview: Mitchell Baker - Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Foundation
- Identity 2.0 - Dick Hardt, Sxip Identity
Below are my notes from the keynotes (notes from keynotes? sounds redundant)
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3 Aug, 2005
Since I took quite a bit of notes at DHH’s Extracting Rails from Basecamp session, I thought I’d include them below. Note that these are just my raw notes, primarily for those who were unable to attend (and aren’t in Portland, as apparently David is doing the talk again at “FOSCON” (free-OSCON) for those who couldn’t afford to attend).
Update Aug 4, 2005: I was misinformed about FOSCON, evidently David gave the Rails keynote which he is going to do this morning (I’ll have a separate post on this later).
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