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June 15, 2005
OSCon
After four years out of the geek con circuit, I am heading up to the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland from Aug 1-5.
I sat down and worked out my schedule today; it's listed below. It turned out to be pretty heavily PHP biased, which seems weird given what I do at my day job until you recall that I have a medium sized public web service built in PHP 4. (It's gotten bloated and has always been much too slow, and something needs to be done, but for those same reasons I'm scared to make large scale changes. I hope some of these presentations will give me ideas for small steps to take toward better performance. If i had a do-over, I'd use PHP 5, Propel or the PDO that's being talked about in one of these sessions, and memcached.)
I'm most looking forward to the "It's Time to Share: Calendar Data Interchange" session. I wonder if there will be any surprises. The session seems to be focused on calendar clients, but hopefully some of the other server developers will be there too. Having missed the CalConnect interoperability event the last go-around, I haven't met any of those folks yet. I will be on Mitch Kapor's CalDAV panel though, and probably some of them will be there.
In any event, it will be strange to be jumping into the deep end of the geek pool again after all this time. I hope folks I know will be there so we can drink heavily and oversleep the morning sessions just like the old days.
Monday
8.30 am: Introduction to Ruby (tutorial)
1.30 pm: Scalable Internet Architectures (tutorial)
Tuesday
8.30 am: Learning Ajax (tutorial)
1.30 pm: Creating Passionate Users (tutorial)
Wednesday
8.45 am: Trends in the Open Source Marketplace (keynote)
10.45 am: Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5
11.35 am: Accelerating PHP Applications
1.45 pm: The Evolution of Web Application Architectures
2.35 pm: How to Serve a Billion Requests a Day with Perl
4.30 pm: State of PHP
5.20 pm: Implementing CalDAV, a New Standard for Sharing Calendar Information Over the Internet
Thursday
8.45 am: TCP/IP and Shipping Containers (keynote)
9.30 am: Computational Origami: From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes (keynote)
10.45 am: PDO: PHP Data Objects
11.35 am: Getting Up to Speed with Apache Geronimo
1.45 pm: It's Time to Share: Calendar Data Interchange
2.35 pm: PHP Is Ready for Big Business
4.30 pm: Flagship Features in MySQL 5.0
5.20 pm: XMPP in Java
Friday
10.45 am: Extracting Rails from Basecamp
11.35 am: Building Responsive Web UIs with DHTML
12.45 am: Closing Session (keynote)
Posted by bcm at June 15, 2005 06:16 PM
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