Re: OSS/Perl Conference Report
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote: On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Gunther Birznieks wrote: I have to say that I really enjoyed reading this. Especially since I was stuck halfway around the world and couldn't really go this year. :( I wonder if the OReillyCon people would consider linking to this piece? I've offered it to MJD/JonO for www.perl.com - assuming they'll be running the same sort of thing as they did for YAPC. mjd just wrote that they will. snip Date: 26 Jul 2000 06:37:25 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: recipient list not shown: ; Subject: Would you like to do a very brief conference reoprt for perl.com? I need conference reports from last week's big Open Source conferences. I've decided that it's boring to have one big comprehensive report from one person, and that I like getting many small reports from many different people. This worked well for the YAPC reports (http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/07/yapc19101.html) and I'm doing it again. If you're interested in contributing a report, please keep it short: No more than about 300 words; that is a little longer than this message is. 100 words is also fine; 400 words is not so fine. Don't try to cover the whole conference. Try to focus on one or at most two specific items that were interesting to you. The items don't have to be talks or other official events; you might write about a conversation that you had in the hallway, or someone that you met that you hadn't expected to meet, or what it was like to be in Monterey. The only thing you should really avoid is vagueness. Don't say "I learned a lot at the talks." Say "I sat next to so-and-so at lunch, and she talked about this and that, which surprised me, because..." If you want to write a report, please send it to me by Friday night. On the weekend I'll collate the reports I got and put them up on www.perl.com. If you weren't even at the conference and I sent this to you by mistake, please read the next paragraph only. Please forward this to anyone else you know who was at the conference who might be interested in writing a report. Thanks. /snip - ask ps. more pictures of Perl People at http://photo.tomat.dk/tpc4/ now... if you haven't seen a picture of Doug before then you should take a look at http://photo.tomat.dk/tpc4/dsc_4696.html ... :) -- ask bjoern hansen - http://www.netcetera.dk/~ask/ more than 70M impressions per day, http://valueclick.com
Re: OSS/Perl Conference Report
Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: ps. more pictures of Perl People at http://photo.tomat.dk/tpc4/ now... if you haven't seen a picture of Doug before then you should take a look at http://photo.tomat.dk/tpc4/dsc_4696.html ... :) seems to me to involve lots of Beer and and I not sure about the relevance of the fish ... Thanks Greg -- ask bjoern hansen - http://www.netcetera.dk/~ask/ more than 70M impressions per day, http://valueclick.com
Re: OSS/Perl Conference Report
"Ask" == Ask Bjoern Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ask And the many pictures involving people slightly intoxicating Ask themself are just because they were a lot more fun than pictures of Ask people in conference rooms. :) Yup. 'cept for me. I just finished one year of no drinking. I'm extending that to at least the end of 2000, until I have enough data about what being a dry guy vs a drinking guy is, so I can make appropriate choices. It was pretty amazing watching $11K of drinks being consumed around me at my party last wednesday night. But I figured that was just about the same as what people had bought for me over the years, so I think I'm now even. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
Re: OSS/Perl Conference Report
Hold on there. Did I read that right? Is that "11 thousand" dollars? WTF!?! Do your friends happen to be elephants who like to drink alcohol??? Just how in the hell do you consume that much liquor at a single party?! P.S. Let us know how the non-drinking thing goes. You're a much braver man than I... -- On 26 Jul 2000 15:43:51 -070 Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Ask" == Ask Bjoern Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ask And the many pictures involving people slightly intoxicating Ask themself are just because they were a lot more fun than pictures of Ask people in conference rooms. :) Yup. 'cept for me. I just finished one year of no drinking. I'm extending that to at least the end of 2000, until I have enough data about what being a dry guy vs a drinking guy is, so I can make appropriate choices. It was pretty amazing watching $11K of drinks being consumed around me at my party last wednesday night. But I figured that was just about the same as what people had bought for me over the years, so I think I'm now even. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Before you buy.
[OT] Re: OSS/Perl Conference Report
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hold on there. Did I read that right? Is that "11 thousand" dollars? WTF!?! Do your friends happen to be elephants who like to drink alcohol??? Just how in the hell do you consume that much liquor at a single party?! You've never thrown a party with an open bar, have you? ;-) /me appologises for the 8 beers and 4 whiskeys that he consumed, and promises to repay Randall when/if he stops the no-drink thing :-) -- Matt/ Fastnet Software Ltd. High Performance Web Specialists Providing mod_perl, XML, Sybase and Oracle solutions Email for training and consultancy availability. http://sergeant.org | AxKit: http://axkit.org
Re: [OT] Re: OSS/Perl Conference Report
"Matt" == Matt Sergeant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matt You've never thrown a party with an open bar, have you? ;-) Especially with premium and call liquor, and very few beer choices (sorry!). Matt /me appologises for the 8 beers and 4 whiskeys that he consumed, and Matt promises to repay Randall when/if he stops the no-drink thing :-) No, please no. I threw the party so that my friends could have a good time. I'm not owed a thing. Please no. It was entirely my pleasure. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
Re: OSS/Perl Conference Report
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Perrin Harkins wrote: On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote: I've put my report on the OSS/Perl conference online for all to see. Hopefully you'll find it vaguely interesting in parts. Its at http://modperl.sergeant.org/oss-conf-report.txt "On Wednesday I first went to Andy Wardley's Template Toolkit BOF where he showed us briefly how it works, and then I told him I might add support to AxKit for TT2" Hey, I was thinking about that too! TT seems like such a natural fit for this, and it looked like it would be pretty easy to add. I don't have time to code it right now, but I know a fair amount about how to use TT efficiently from mod_perl and I'd be happy to answer questions. It will be a while before I get around to doing any coding on this whatsoever. I have a lot of work to do before ApacheCon to get something working on what I've been promising people on. Maybe after then though! -- Matt/ Fastnet Software Ltd. High Performance Web Specialists Providing mod_perl, XML, Sybase and Oracle solutions Email for training and consultancy availability. http://sergeant.org | AxKit: http://axkit.org
Re: OSS/Perl Conference Report
I have to say that I really enjoyed reading this. Especially since I was stuck halfway around the world and couldn't really go this year. :( I wonder if the OReillyCon people would consider linking to this piece? At 12:44 PM 7/23/00 +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote: I've put my report on the OSS/Perl conference online for all to see. Hopefully you'll find it vaguely interesting in parts. Its at http://modperl.sergeant.org/oss-conf-report.txt -- Matt/ Fastnet Software Ltd. High Performance Web Specialists Providing mod_perl, XML, Sybase and Oracle solutions Email for training and consultancy availability. http://sergeant.org | AxKit: http://axkit.org __ Gunther Birznieks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) eXtropia - The Web Technology Company http://www.extropia.com/
Re: OSS/Perl Conference Report
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Gunther Birznieks wrote: I have to say that I really enjoyed reading this. Especially since I was stuck halfway around the world and couldn't really go this year. :( I wonder if the OReillyCon people would consider linking to this piece? I've offered it to MJD/JonO for www.perl.com - assuming they'll be running the same sort of thing as they did for YAPC. -- Matt/ Fastnet Software Ltd. High Performance Web Specialists Providing mod_perl, XML, Sybase and Oracle solutions Email for training and consultancy availability. http://sergeant.org | AxKit: http://axkit.org
OSS/Perl Conference Report
I've put my report on the OSS/Perl conference online for all to see. Hopefully you'll find it vaguely interesting in parts. Its at http://modperl.sergeant.org/oss-conf-report.txt -- Matt/ Fastnet Software Ltd. High Performance Web Specialists Providing mod_perl, XML, Sybase and Oracle solutions Email for training and consultancy availability. http://sergeant.org | AxKit: http://axkit.org
Re: OSS/Perl Conference Report
Matt Sergeant wrote: I've put my report on the OSS/Perl conference online for all to see. Hopefully you'll find it vaguely interesting in parts. Its at http://modperl.sergeant.org/oss-conf-report.txt Thanks Mat - much appreciated. It seems difficult to get a concise view of what people are playing with (not only Doug's MPM threaded model, DBI connection pools, but now hotspot style op code removal ...) development wide - without subscribing to loads of lists, and even then there is on guarantee of any news! Sounds like a good time was had by all. Thanks again for the resumee. Greg Cope. -- Matt/ Fastnet Software Ltd. High Performance Web Specialists Providing mod_perl, XML, Sybase and Oracle solutions Email for training and consultancy availability. http://sergeant.org | AxKit: http://axkit.org
Re: OSS/Perl Conference Report
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote: I've put my report on the OSS/Perl conference online for all to see. Hopefully you'll find it vaguely interesting in parts. Its at http://modperl.sergeant.org/oss-conf-report.txt "On Wednesday I first went to Andy Wardley's Template Toolkit BOF where he showed us briefly how it works, and then I told him I might add support to AxKit for TT2" Hey, I was thinking about that too! TT seems like such a natural fit for this, and it looked like it would be pretty easy to add. I don't have time to code it right now, but I know a fair amount about how to use TT efficiently from mod_perl and I'd be happy to answer questions. - Perrin
