OSCON day three

The third day of the convention is winding down and I just got back from a quick tour of some of places in Portland on the back of a Harley and saw a great establishment called the Douglas Fur. It seems to be an old motel that was updated to be a more swank new joint and it has pulled it off well.

At the convention there were some talks on Ajax, Atom, RSS and Perl that I attended today and now have even more evil genius ideas. I've also found that there seems to be at least one older man sitting at the back of every talk that yells out something nonsensical that they find funny and no one else does. I think next year I may need to try to change that part of the convention and see what happens if someone younger up front manages to do it first.

There were also a whole slew of products on the exhibition floor to look at today. A few of them seemed pretty interesting such as Splunk and Alfresco, also there was a product being shown called OpenLaszlo which allows development of code that can give browsers the choice to handle things via DHTML or Flash.

Next year my plan is to return with t-shirts of Jason from Foxtrot showing off his unix underpants, we'll see how that pans out.

ScottK

Comments

[andy]

Why was yesterday's Ziggy about OJ and the day before about Beavis and Butthead? Is the cartoonist in some sort of time warp?

[Flash is Trash]

"some talks on Ajax, Atom, RSS and Perl"... notice, they weren't focusing on Flash as an "up and coming"....

Instead, "there was a product .. called OpenLaszlo which allows .. the choice to handle ... Flash."...

So, the HOT TECHNOLOGY is the ability to _let_browsers_choose_NOT_TO_USE_FLASH!!!!

[jj]

Bring back the James Bond strip. If you need space get rid of the lame ones like 'Bob the Squirrel'.