This years EuroOSCON has been announced. It’s on the 18th – 21st September in Brussels. Last year’s conference was great, so I hope to be there again. Oh, and there seems to be another similar conference taking place in the US in July.
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EuroOSCON on the BBC
This week’s edition of the BBC programme Click Online contains a report about EuroOSCON. The transcript is here and the Real Audio stream is here. The programme is repeated a number of times on various BBC channels (mainly News 24) over the next couple of days. It’s the first report in the programme, but its… Continue reading EuroOSCON on the BBC
EuroOSCON Day 3
Late, but I thought it was worth recording what I did on the final day of EuroOSCON. As always, we started with the keynotes. Marc Heglund talked about privacy issues and the possibility of an “open data” movement. David Heinemeier Hansson talked about the secrets of Ruby on Rails and MySQL’s Kaj Arnö showed us… Continue reading EuroOSCON Day 3
EuroOSCON Day 2
Very late, but here’s a summary of what I did at EuroOSCON on the second day (Wednesday). The keynotes started with Rael Dornfest talking about how “Annenuation is the new Aggregation”. He was followed by Red Hat’s Michael Tiemann talking about quality management. We then had Jason Matusow from Microsoft nicely illustrating how, hard as… Continue reading EuroOSCON Day 2
ActiveRecord Does It Wrong
I’m listening to the keynotes on the final day of EuroOSCON and David Heinemeier Hansson is talking about the secrets of Ruby on Rails. He talks about how they promote “convention over configuration” and how that means that you don’t have to describe the same object attribute multiple times. This is a great idea, but… Continue reading ActiveRecord Does It Wrong
EuroOSCON Day 1
Ok, so it was probably day 2 if you were here for the tutorials, but it was my first day here, so I’m calling it day 1. Just a few brief notes so that I remember what I did yesterday, I’ll fill in more details later. The morning started with the keynote speeches. Nat began… Continue reading EuroOSCON Day 1
EasyJet (part 2)
EasyJet had one last surprise for me. My plane from Stansted was delayed by over an hour. I was supposed to arrive in Amsterdam at about 17:00 local time. I finally landed at about 22:45 and eventually got to my hotel just before midnight. Which wouldn’t have really been a problem, but there were some… Continue reading EasyJet (part 2)
EasyJet
Remind me to never book another EasyJet fight. Ever. I had booked a flight that left Gatwick at 14:35 getting me to Amsterdam at 17:50 (local time). It’s now 18:00 (London time) and instead of being in the bar at at the conference hotel, I’m typing this in the departure lounge at Stansted airport whilst… Continue reading EasyJet
EuroOSCON
Interesting post from Nat Torkington about what he’s thinking on the eve of the first European OSCON. It’s been a few years since I went to one of the US OSCONs and I’m really interested to see how the European version works out. I’ll be arriving in Amsterdam on Monday and will, of course, be… Continue reading EuroOSCON