Tomorrow I am off to Portland, Oregon with ActiveState for their annual participation in OSCON. I will be working at our booth greeting folks, showing off our products, and handing out t-shirts.
Of course I will also be attending lots of interesting talks over the next few days as well. I am most looking forward to the Apache mod_proxy talk as we are now using it to load balance the ASPN web site thanks to Gozer but I haven’t had the time to learn much about it. I’ve included the talks that I will be attending this week below. I am most looking forward to those in bold.
Wednesday
- 8:45 – 10:15 I’m guessing everyone will be attending the kickoff.
- 10:45 – 11:30 Hacking Web Services: Attacks & Defense
- 11:35 – 12:20 Painless Web Proxying with Apache mod_proxy
- 1:45 – 2:30 Prototype
- 2:35 – 3:20 Cross-site Ajax:
Challenges and Techniques for Building Rich Web 2.0 Mashups - 4:30 – 5:15 Django: Web Development with Journalists’ Deadlines
- 5:20PM – 6:05PM No Flash Required: Interactive Browser Graphics
Thursday
- 8:45 – 10:15 Mini talks
- 10:45 – 11:30 PHP and Web 2.0 (by Rasmus Lerdorf)
- 11:35 – 12:20 Ajax + .NET = Atlas
- 1:45 – 2:30 Building Domain-specific Language in Ruby
- 2:35 – 3:20 Writing Maintainable Code with PHP
- 4:30 – 5:15 When Interface Design Attacks! (Amy Hoy)
- 5:20 – 6:05 Roadmap to Free .NET Developer Tools
Friday
- 8:45 – 10:15 Mini talks
- 10:45 – 11:30 NUnit: Cross-platform Testing for .Net
- 11:35 – 12:20 Hacking Apache HTTP Server at Yahoo!
- 12:30 – 1:00 Closing Session
brad.touesnard.com » +1 Mac User
[...] After considering it for about three years now, I’ve finally taken the leap from a PC to a Mac. Ever since Sean brought a Powerbook in to school in our third year at UNB I’ve been really impressed with what I’ve seen and heard. More recently I’ve been influenced by the fact that nearly everyone at ActiveState has a Mac (or two) and I noticed that tons of other web developers had Macs when I was at OSCON. [...]
November 26th, 2006 at 4:14pm
brad.touesnard.com » Attending Web Directions North next week
[...] Anyways, I’m really looking forward to this conference. I have a feeling that the sessions will be considerably better than OSCON as they are double the length and should contain more substance and less fluff. I will be sporting a black t-shirt with either Komodo 4.0 or Chuck Norris on it, so if you spot me, yell me a hello and introduce yourself. Tags: ActiveState conference Komodo vancouver web design web development Web Directions North [...]
January 27th, 2007 at 7:43pm