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 to wincachegrind (also referenced multiple times in comments on another post here).

I did end up meeting up with Ben Ramsey and George Schlossnagle.  I’ve talked on and off for years with George, and met his brother Theo, but we’d never met in person before.  Very nice guy.  Ben was good to see as well, and recently became a dad.  I was surprised that he was able to make it at all!  I gave both George and Ben copies of my ‘work in progress‘ book about the PHP job market, ideally getting some feedback from each of them with criticisms and pointers about how to make it better.

I checked out the ’scrum war stories’ ‘birds of a feather’ session last night, run by Eric Pugh.  It was interesting to hear other peoples’ experiences with scrum and agile methodologies.  There was another person (Bill West) from Raleigh, who’s also been to the Agile Artisans group run by Jared Richarson (who’s also here speaking today - if you are doing Rails and want to tune your apps, check out Jared at 1:45 today - he’s a good speaker and great guy).  We then checked out the MySQL session with “pizza and beer”.  I had pizza and some home made “black vodka” personally made and poured by Monty himself!  It was *strong*!  I think I took 4 years off my esophagus last night with those few ounces.

I’m watching Bill Hilf’s keynote right now, and will be attending a lot of web dev sessions today, and am going to try to corner some people today for a webdevradio podcast interview.

Lastly, I’m hosting a SOLR “hands on” BOF tonight at 8:30.  There were a number of people who had some SOLR questions after yesterday’s presentation which I didn’t get a chance to respond to.  Hopefully a few people will stop by tonight and we’ll go over any more questions or demos people want to see, or others will stop by and share their success stories (please drop by!)

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