oscon day two

Day two is now over and things are starting to step up a notch, tomorrow I believe the exhibition hall opens up and we'll get to see vendors galore. We shouldn't be getting ahead of ourselves here though because there were some good sessions today.

Tim Bunce gave a talk called Advanced Perl DBI where I picked up a few things that again will be of good use, most of it dealing with profiling and database handle caching. I would have like to hear more on web transactions and blob storage but it doesn't seem to be his thing and there was a lot of material to cover so when we got to that part it was essentially RTFM.

I was more impressed with my second tutorial which was More Perl Best Practices by Damian Conway. Damian is a great speaker and John talked me out of going to the tutorial I was planning on attending and instead hit up the Best Practices one and I'm glad I did. Aside from the great information that was passed along I now understand why he is one of the prominent figures in the Open Source community, he's one of those people that has an aura that others just want to bask in. They had the OSCON opening night speech to and I had hoped that by the time I posted this I'd be able to find Damian's The Da Vinci Codebase presentation on YouTube but I haven't seen it out there yet. If you are at all into OpenSource and a version of it hits the web it needs to be watched, there were a few times I was having a bit of trouble breathing between fits of laughter.

We managed to get out for dinner tonight and do a little bit of wandering around aimlessly in Portland for about thirty minutes, on the morrow I need to try to get out with my camera and get a few shots. Looking around though I just now realized that I didn't bring my USB cable with me so I'm out of luck as far as getting them off of there until I get home, or maybe one of the vendors will have one.

I should also make special mention of my wife who's birthday is today (7/25) and is turning 23 yet again (how many times exactly I won't mention), whom let me venture off to far off places while she's at home taking care of the kids solo. Happy Birthday Sweets

ScottK

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[Nick]

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