…pooped. I met some great people, the talks were good, and I saw some promising ideas and technologies. Portland is a great city, with free public transportation, good beer, veggie-friendly restaurants, and Mt. Hood close by. What more could you want?
Here's my highlights and impressions.
Innovation
Rolf Skyberg explained where corporate innovation initiatives come from, and Simon Wardley talked about innovation. Those links are to the talk descriptions, …
- RubyLearning Blog: Clojure 101: A New Course
- Lance: Reflections on Ruby
- Headius: Busy Week: JRuby with Android, Maven, Rake, C exts, and More!
- Vineet Gupta | Computer Programmer: Groovy, Scala and Clojure - A Comparison
- Programblings: An epiphany about Functional Programming and Lazy Evaluation
- Merbist: The Ruby Revolution, take II
This summer, I attended (and gave presentations at) two conferences here in Portland: Open Source Bridge and OSCON . Broadly, the subject matter and target audience for these two events are similar (web developers, open source programmers, sysadmins, and mobile developers) but their approach, culture, and (for lack of a better word) "personalities" are quite different.
Overall, I think that OSBridge more effectively captured the spirit of the community from which …
- Rubycon - All things geared towards web development: Garrett Rooney - Extending Ruby with C - OSCON 2006 video
- Nikos D.: Interesting weekly news
- MySQL Performance Blog: Percona at OSCON 2010
- Stake Ventures Inc.: Open Web Payments - PayPal's answer to OpenTransact
- Opscode Blog: O'Reilly Webcast: Automated Infrastructure is on the Menu with Chef
- Envy Labs: No Callbacks, No Threads & Ruby 1.9
Building F# on Mac OS X
I'm attending the Emerging Languages Conference here in Portland, OR, where I ran into Joe Pamer on the F# team. I've been following F# for a while but have had trouble running it on the Mac.
Joe says his team at Microsoft runs into these issues often with users and was kind enough to walk me through the steps to get F# running on the mac.
First install Mono, there's a dmg
1. Download the zip file 2. Run make_package.sh …
- Global Nerdy: Windows Phone 7 Series: Now That's More Like It!
- How Software is Built: Interview with Shay David - Co-founder of Kaltura
- Giles Bowkett: Scott Adams Is Wrong About Content
- carpeaqua by Justin Williams: Serial Numbers Are Dead. Long Live Serials.
- Ruby Inside: A Walkthrough of Ruby In The Web Browser using IronRuby and Silverlight
- BlogFish - Blog: Ruby En Rails 2009 Recap
Calagator: Portland's Tech Calendar - @ edavis10 told me about this when I threw together Meatspace Marketing. Have to go back and revisit it though, a few other places I could see using it and I really don't want to reinvent another wheel
Streaming API: Methods | dev.twitter.com - might need to look at this instead of going straight against the search api, we'll see.
RSoC status: bringing engines closer to application - Updates on engines …
- Obie Fernandez: Meet David Allen at BizConf 2010
- Ruby Inside: Gregg Pollack on Screencasting and Podcasting for Developers (in 10 minutes)
- Heroku: BizConf Bound
- Jason Seifer: Live blogging BizConf Day 2
- Rails Underground: Notes
- elc technologies - Blog : Ruby on Rails, iPhone, Flash, Agile, Interactive Design: ELC Founder Jonathan Siegel to deliver Keynote at BizConf 2010
…the concepts at play in Riak, where/how it can fit into an application, and where it might be headed in The Future. It will be a talk light on benchmarks, heavy on code.
I hope you'll join me there; there are still seats available at the event, and I'd love to meet more Portland developers (me being a fairly new transplant). Not from Portland? Now's a great time to visit; the weather is absolutely gorgeous this time of year.
- techno weenie: Nori: Node.js Riak wrapper
- Rails Envy » Home: Episode 104: Something New
- Spyced: Cassandra: Fact vs fiction
- till's blog: Introducing TillStore
- James on Software: Most NoSQL DBs Are Not Scalable
- a work on process: Weekend Links