Category Archives: OSCON

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SVLUG: The Parrot Virtual Machine, Allison Randal

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Administrator

Allison Randal gave an overview of the Parrot Virtual Machine, plus delved into the syntactic details of the PIR assembly language for the virtual machine. (around 1200 opcodes.) Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. She’s … Continue reading →

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OSCON 2008, Portland

Posted on July 25, 2008 by Administrator

I attended the O’Reilly Open Source Conference, once again in Portland, Oregon. Overall my impression was that the talks and vibe were oriented towards Web 2.0 primarily. I would say that the talks were not as strong as previous years, … Continue reading →

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OSCON July, 2007 – Portland

Posted on July 27, 2007 by Administrator

I attended the O’Reilly Open Source convention again, making it 10 years in a row. Once again it was held at the Convention Center near downtown Portland, a convenient light rail ride from the airport. Like many experienced developers, I … Continue reading →

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3 Rules for Writing High-Performance Code

Posted on October 30, 2006 by Administrator

Several years ago I attended a talk by Chip Salzenberg, a former Perl Pumpkin (lead maintainer), at OSCON. One of his slides had these three rules for writing high-performance code: Don’t do it. Do it later. Let somebody else do … Continue reading →

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MySQL 4.x to Oracle 10g Migration Notes

Posted on August 16, 2006 by Administrator

About once a year I need to migrate a medium-sized web application using MySQL to Oracle. Usually it’s to prepare a successful intranet application for a move to a formally supported production environment – and in Silicon Valley, that usually … Continue reading →

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