Michael Donohoe a developer at the New York Times released a very cool Google Gadget called the The Last Word.

“The purpose of a summary is to provide a snapshot of what the article is about – maybe an editor would explain it differently. However, when you arbitrarily take the last paragraph of each story and pair it with the headline you can stumble across the profound

My ongoing adventures at OSCON 07, read day 3 here.

Day 4 & 5

Super-sizing YouTube

This presentation was given by Mike Solomon of YouTube.

YouTube began as a small PHP application. Within a few weeks, it became obvious that it needed to grow fast.

A Python-powered YouTube emerged and became an unending battle to meet user demand. Repeated tuning and optimization only revealed new bottlenecks as th

My ongoing adventures at OSCON 07, read day 2 here.

Day 3

Day three is the actual start of the conference, day 1 & 2 were in depth tutorials, so there is quite a bit of stuff happening today.

Here are the sessions that I attended:

Practical Design for Web Developers

This presentation was given by David Verba, Director of Technology, Adapti

This is a continuation of my adventures at OSCON 07, read day 1 here.

Day 2

Modern Web Development with Python and WSGI

Explored modern web development techniques in Python, with a a particular focus on next generation python frameworks like TurboGears and pylons, the WSGI Specification, Ajax, JSON, and REST. Built a simple web application that shows how easy it can be to create multipurpose web applications

After a delayed plane flight last night I finally made it to Portland for OSCON 07. My plan is to do some live blogging of the event for anyone who could not make it. There is a lot of information to cover, so to keep things short and sweet I will give a high level overview and try to post any important links.

Day1

The day started with short walk from the hotel to the beautiful Oregon Convention Center. Aft

I am leaving today to go to the O’Reilly Open Source Convention 2007, in beautiful Portland, Oregon. I know I will enjoy the conference, but I am very excited to visit a city that so environmentaly focused that they have an Office of Sustainable Development which their mission is:
”.. to provide leadership and contribute practical solutions to ensure a prosperous c

Well, I finally have my slice and have installed all of the goodies to get Calabro up and running. I plan to do some testing for a week or so, then move my existing Typo powered blog over, re-point my domain, and then we will be rocking.

I am going to the O’Reilly Open Source Convention 2007, July 23rd – 27th in beautiful Portland, Oregon. Hope to see you there!