August 07, 2005
August 06, 2005
OSCON Day 3: HTTP Caching
Michael Radwin's "HTTP Caching & Cache-Busting for Content Publishers" talk covered a number of important issues that deal with Internet caching and some of the pitfalls associated with caching. This fast-paced and excellent introduction served as a great starting point for web developers to see if they need to delve deeper into this complex topic.
- Robert Kaye [05:40:11 PM
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August 05, 2005
August 04, 2005
OSCON Day 3: Real world scalability
Ask Bjørn Hansen's "Real World Scalability" presentation left my head spinning as he peppered us for 45 minutes with useful tips for making sure your site is scalable. The talk covered vertical scaling, caching, database replication and making the most of their web server processes. If you're interested in a practical complement to Theo Schlossnagle's more theoretical approach to scaling your site, read this.
- Robert Kaye [03:02:30 PM
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Perl 6: Pining for the Fjords?
If you're even vaguely interested in the fate of Perl 6, you MUST read the slides from Autrijus Tang's amazing Pugs talk at YAPC. Short version: Perl 6 is already being implemented (no, really!) on a Haskell-based compiler, and it's shaping up to be everything originally promised. This Parrot's definitely not dead after all; it was probably just pining for the fjords...
- Schuyler Erle [12:30:36 PM
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OpenTech 2005 roundup
Last weekend saw a "very British" conference - the backstage.bbc.co.uk Open Tech. Aimed at
people who enjoy spending their Saturday travelling to West London and listening to people talk
with passion about what they're working on. Read on for more...
- Sam Smith [05:21:18 AM
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August 03, 2005
OSCON Day 2: The long tail and open source
Kim Polese's keynote presented some interesting insights into the world of open source and some of the issues that corporations face as they use open source. Kim's presentation used the long tail to show some of the issues that surround corporate use of open source. Thinking more about the long tail in open source yields some interesting thoughts.
- Robert Kaye [02:10:59 PM
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Pugs Off Sabbatical
Highly productive hacker Autrijus Tang started the Pugs project in February and, with a little help from his team of lambdacamels, has implemented a huge portion of Perl 6 in six months. #perl6 participant Limbic~Region has just posted an interview with the fearless Autrijus, now that his self-imposed six month sabbatical has ended. Don't fear; Pugs and Perl 6 will continue... perhaps with your help.
- chromatic [11:10:38 AM
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Understanding Asterisk
Asterisk isn't just for large businesses intending to replace huge, expensive, old, proprietary equipment with software and commodity hardware under their control. It's for tinkerers and geeks at home too. Here's what I picked up at Brian Capouch's "Understanding Asterisk" session at OSCON 2005.
- chromatic [09:11:36 AM
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August 02, 2005
OSCON Day 1: Subversion Tutorial
Brian Fitzpatrick's Subversion tutorial was the perfect introduction to the new version control system that appears to be poised to take over for CVS. He presented a number of comparisons to CVS and outlined how Subversion was designed to address all of CVS' shortcomings.
- Robert Kaye [05:25:29 PM
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OSCON Day 0: Scalable Internet Architectures
Theo Schlossnagel's Scalable Internet Architectures tutorial presented some general rules on scalability and supported those rules with a lot of examples on how (and how not to) scale an internet site. In the course of the tutorial Theo presented a lot of open source source solutions that can save tons of money compared to conventional scalability solutions.
- Robert Kaye [01:40:38 PM
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August 01, 2005
OSCON's new digs
OSCON started today in its new location at the Portland Convention Center, which gives the event a lot of space and a lot of room to grow in the future. A packed line-up and a ton of exhibitors and I'm excited to be part of the happenings this week.
- Robert Kaye [07:42:48 PM
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Toxic developers
The talk at OSCON is that Tony Bowden has become a liability to Class::DBI, but not for anything technical. I think he's become a toxic developer and that Class::DBI is unusable until he leaves the project.
- brian d foy [10:34:29 AM
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