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 [...]
Entries Categorized as 'oscon07'
OSCON – catch up
July 27, 2007
OSCON 07 – windmill testing
July 26, 2007
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 [...]
OSCON live recap (and solr BOF tonight)
July 26, 2007
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 [...]
OSCON – PHP and OFBIZ
July 25, 2007
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 [...]
OSCON – testing the web tier
July 25, 2007
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 – [...]
SOLR presentation
July 25, 2007
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/ [...]
OSCON 2007
July 25, 2007
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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