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O’Reilly Open Source Conference 2010, Portland

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Administrator

Once again, the O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) was held in Portland, Oregon. It was a good conference, and we had beautiful weather all week long. Executive Summary The themes promoted by the conference organizers were Cloud Computing, NoSQL, Emerging … Continue reading →

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MySQL Conference 2010

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Administrator

The MySQL Conference was this week in Santa Clara. It was a well-organized and educational event with everybody involved in the MySQL community showing up once again. Executive Summary The highlights were: after 2 years of effort, the performance schema … Continue reading →

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ApacheCon 2009 Oakland

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Administrator

I went to ApacheCon 2009 in Oakland. Why Oakland? The ASF was founded here 10 years ago. Executive Summary Most of the attendees that I talked to were primarily interested in search technologies, or were Apache project comitters. The search … Continue reading →

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Zend PHP Conference 2009

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Administrator

The Zend PHP Conference was downtown at the San Jose Convention Center, so I went to that this week. It was a well-organized, fun-sized conference – just big enough to use half the convention center, which made it easy to … 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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