Met with some interesting people last night, and I’ll be posting the contents on webdevradio.com later.  Met with JasperReports people today and obm.org people.  OBM looks pretty powerful.  Currently sitting in the ‘MySQL sandbox’ presentation.

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Listening to Joe Stump from Digg.com talk about SOA and MySQL and some PHP.  One key thing he’s repeating is using a service layer to access data asynchronously.  His advice right now is to group data requests at the top of a user request, do them asynchronously, and then use the data in the rendering [...]

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Xaware.org looks prett slick.  I’m in a session with one of the xaware guys going through the process of using xaware.
OK – we had a long intro, but are finally seeing some screenshots, which look useful.  Xaware will bring value to scenarios with many complex XML documents.  The fewer or less complex your XML files [...]

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I just got here a few minutes ago and am sitting in in the ‘Future of MySQL’ with Robin Schumacher and Rob Young. Interesting – 5.1.24 RC announced at the conference yesterday. GA scheduled for end of Q2 – 2008. It’s close.
Some nice new things – job scheduling, row-based/hybrid replication, faster full-text [...]

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I got a taste for speaking last year, and submitted three more proposals this year for OSCON.  I submitted:

Groovy/Grails for PHP developers
Open Source Search overview
Open Source Risks

We’ll see how these are received.  I hear of people submitting 5-10 proposals and not getting any accepted, yet I submitted only one last year and was accepted.  I [...]

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I had a good conversation with Joe Fiorini about balancing his daily work in .NET with a passion and enthusiasm for Ruby on Rails.  Have a listen.

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I had a fun time recording this ‘open spaces’ meeting at Codemash last week.  This was led by Joe Brinkman from the DotNetNuke project, and joining us was Kevin Devine from the Euclid Public Library, Sara Ford from Codeplex @ Microsoft, Steven Harman from the Subtext project and – shoot – I do not have [...]

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I had considered submitting a codemash proposal about “Grails for PHP developers”.  I was counseled out of this by a certain someone as it was considered “too niche”.  I probably could have renamed it “Grails for non-Java developers”, and submitted it.  I think I will do that next year (or keep the PHP tag in [...]

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I had a chance to have a fun discussion with Dave Kroondyk, Adam Lumsden and Elizabeth Naramore about web development, ecommerce, project management, content management systems, shark dissection, PHP, Mozilla’s Weave project, general MIchigan awesomeness and some other topics. I was a bit closer to the mike than I should have been, but worse [...]

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I’m not going to write a whole lot about this, but Neal Ford’s main takeaway point was that the future of programming is dynamically typed languages running on virtual machines – things like JRuby running on the JVM or IronPython on .NET.  I’m putting those examples in his mouth, so to speak – he didn’t [...]

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