Monthly Archives: August 2009

BayPIGgies: Tech Management

Posted on August 27, 2009 by Administrator

Tonite at Baypiggies, Alex Martelli from Google gave a talk on “Tech Management.” Largely the talk pertained to leadership in traditional tech companies, rather than FOSS projects. A high-level summary would be that, in tech companies, there has to be … Continue reading →

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sf.pm.org: Oops! I i18n’d your app

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Administrator

Jeff Goff (DrForr) gave a sf.pm.org talk on internationalizing web apps at Six Apart in San Francisco. (It was a long trip from San Jose on the Caltrain. I knew that I had arrived in San Francisco when I could … Continue reading →

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Using Sphinx Search with Perl

Posted on August 25, 2009 by Administrator

I had been aware of Sphinx Search since meeting Andrew Aksyonoff, the author, at the MySQL Conference a couple ago, but just got around to using it. Sphinx is a full-text indexing and search engine written in C that is … Continue reading →

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Film Review: The Hurt Locker

Posted on August 11, 2009 by Administrator

The Hurt Locker is a different kind of fictional action film: bomb technicians don’t run much, instead moving millimeters at a time. The film did a good job of inserting the audience into a different world, the Iraqi urban battlefield. … Continue reading →

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Defcon 17, Las Vegas

Posted on August 2, 2009 by Administrator

Estimates are about 8,000 people showed up for Defcon 17. The Riviera corridors were gridlocked at times – foreboding for next year. Everybody was carrying a netbook, often with 500 mA USB wifi cards and 12″ external antenna. I can’t … Continue reading →

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