I am back from Portland and it was a great week at OSCON. Overall, I felt the sessions & tutorials were pretty good, but the best part of going to OSCON is taking with all the uber smart people.

I ended the week with a night of great beers at Oregon Brewers Festival. I was blown away by the amount of great breweries that were at the event.

Over the next week I will pos

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Francesco Cesarini

John has saved me some typing by providing me with the slides.

• http://ejohn.org/files/secrets-of-js.pdf
• http://ejohn.org/files/js-secrets.pdf

John Resig from Mozilla Corporation and creator of JQuery

Libraries John likes

• Prototype
• JQuery
• base2

Testing

• Can be painfully simple
• Rarely need for more than a couple of methods
• Simple output
• Tests tricky with delayed tests

Cross browser code

Strategies

1. Pick your browsers
   • Cost/Bene

The first day of OSCON filled my moleskine with cool stuff that still needs to be transformed to a binary state to be posted to this blog.

My day ended a little early so I headed over to Powell’s tech book store for some good geek porn.

http://www.saburos.com/

Get ready for the week long blog storm, if the beer does not slow me down!

For those who could not attend OSCON this year, O’Reilly has posted most of the presentations on the OSCON web site.

I am back in town from a great week in Portland, Oregon at OSCON 07. Here are a few pics from my trip.

Me at Powell’s

View from Portland City Grill

Another view from Portland City Grill

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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