Attended OSCON 2004.
This one was cramped indeed, but the wireless worked better than the previous year.
Some of the talks I attended (they were all short but excellent) were:
- Building Your Own Storage Engine for MySQL, Brian Aker
- MySQL Innodb Tuning Experience, Peter Zaitsev
- Practical i18n with PHP and MySQL, Jim Winstead
- How DBD::mysql enhancements can benefit the Perl Developer, Patrick Galbraith
- HTTP Caching and Cache-busting, Michael Radwin
- Planning Ahead, A Survey of Caching Strategies, Marcel Levy
- MySQL High-Availability Options, Jeremy Zawodny
- Database Abstraction with Class::DBI, Casey West
- Building A High-Speed Website (using Persistent Perl instead of mod_perl), Vivek Khera
- PostgreSQL Replication Panel
- Build Your Own Spam Firewall, Zach Levow
- Building Scalable Websites with Perl, Perrin Harkins
Most of the slides are here.


