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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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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