Back from OSCON, it was a very good, enlightening trip. I have a stack of things I want to learn and experiment with now.
I went to
Simon Phipps and Tom Marble's talk about Sun's open source strategy,
where for the most part they focused on Java. Tom talked about
getting Java into GPL distributions of Linux like Debian and Ubuntu –
quite a success story and a great example of a...
None of the tutorials at OSCON interested me this afternoon, so
after a brief look at OSCAMP (interesting, but no topics that pulled
me into a circle), I took a walk across Steel Bridge into downtown
Portland. The walk was great. I walked along Park Street, which is
a double street with a long aisle of green, shaded in beautiful tall
elm trees. Such quiet walks are a great antidote to the...
I work from home most of the time. No sitting in a car in hours of
traffic. Fresh organic food from my own refrigerator. A nice office
with natural light, colorful walls, lots of space. And I forget how
great this all is until I head off to the
airport (this time to OSCON
2006 in Portland). Ugly carpets and fluorescent lights in the
airport. Of course, the flight is delayed. I don't
get into my...
