So I’m off to ConvergeSouth this year. I just realized I never posted the ’second half’ of my thoughts of last year’s meeting. I’ll try to do better this year!
I’ve signed up for a dinner with Anil Dash this year. And it looks like the honorable Jackson Fox (blog) will [...]

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I had a few ideas from last week that I wanted to throw out here for posterity.
Grahame was talking about Haskell, and I asked if he was going to wait for JHaskell - or Jaskell - before adopting it. We then quickly realized Raskell (a ruby version) and Paskell (php/perl/python version) would be good [...]

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I’ll probably write more about this later.  Things have only wrapped up here now, but the overwhelming impression was definitely positive.  The polish, energy, excitement and ideas here was fantastic.  It only brings me down a bit to realize that many of these ideas and concepts won’t translate back to work.  A former colleague was [...]

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Wow - the connection to my server from the convention center just died yesterday.  I could traceroute all the way to something internal to the data center, but it just stopped.  I need to determine if some iptables crap triggered to block me out (why would that have happened?)
So, yesterday afternoon was great.  I had [...]

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This is one I wish I’d just recorded straight from the board.  This testing framework looks pretty awesome, and one that may have a big impact on how people do AJAX/web testing in the coming months.  While it’s been ‘out’ for awhile, this was basically a public launch here at OSCON.  I’m going to see [...]

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So, I hit a couple more sessions last night.  The ‘high performance web pages’ talk from Steve @ Yahoo wasn’t open - SRO apparently.  Instead, I caught the end of “Profiling PHP apps” (Reilly).  I missed the beginning, but was hoping to get a bit of something out of it.  I did - a reference [...]

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I went to Rasmus’ PHP talk.  Didn’t have too much I wasn’t aware of, but did have a good demonstration of debugging and performance stuff.  He demoed kcachegrind, which you have to use now if you use xdebug2.  I was using kcachegrind and valgrind to debug PHP 4 years ago, and it was refreshing to [...]

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Muness from thoughtworks is presenting web testing concepts. The new ones (to me) presented here

crosscheck - simulates other browsers - need to check this out more
distributed jsunit - java run js on multiple browsers remotely
check firefox profiles in to cvs - to keep all developer experiences uniform

The basic firebug/selenium info was also presented - [...]

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I ended up running over just a bit in my presentation, and didn’t quite get through all my slides (missed the last 3).  For anyone that wanted to see how it ends, download the files from  http://www.webdevradio.com/solr_oscon.tgz.  The only thing I didn’t demonstrate in detail was the PHP/SOLR search code, which is running at http://www.pfblogs.com/v2/ [...]

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I got in yesterday (what a long trip!) and will be presenting my SOLR material this morning at 10:45 in room D133.  As of last evening there wasn’t a projector in the room, so I’m not sure exactly what I’ll be doing if there isn’t one, but we’ll make it through somehow!
I bumped in to [...]

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