Today is the last day of OSCON, and the conference will be over at noon today. It’s been an amazing week, and I have tons of notes to write up, but I’m ready to be home.
This morning’s first keynote was entitled “Open Content: How Online Digital Libraries will Provide Access to Cultural [...]
Category Archives: oscon2004
OSCON Day 5: Maps as Culture
Friday, July 30, 2004 – 12:14 pm
The Lure of the Unknown
Thursday, July 29, 2004 – 1:13 pm
Warning: I just re-read this post and it’s a little rambling…but I’m too tired to re-write it, so take it for what it’s worth.
I was killing some time Tuesday afternon at OSCON and wandered through the on-site display of books provided by the good folks at Powell’s. It was there that ran across the [...]
Building for Windows
Thursday, July 29, 2004 – 11:20 am
It’s a little ironic that the best session I attended yesterday was presented by a Microsoft employee, Rob Mensching. Rob presented on WIX, the Windows Installer Xml toolkit. WIX is a set of tools which allow developers to “integrate setup into the build process.” After Rob’s presentation, I’m convinced that WIX [...]
OSCON Day 1 Keynotes
Wednesday, July 28, 2004 – 3:18 pm
Today is the opening day of the Open Source Conference. After two good days of tutorials, I’m ready for diverse sessions on new and emerging topics.
This morning’s keynotes were presented by Tim O’Reilly and Robert Lefkowitz. I went into Tim’s keynote from a somewhat cynical place: of course Tim is the opening keynote [...]
It’s just buttons and stickers, people!
Tuesday, July 27, 2004 – 6:06 pm
Those of us at CC are encouraged to blog our public (or semi-public) appearances, and I so I dutifully posted my attendance at OSCON this week. In an effort to lighten my baggage and meet with other developers, I offered CC schwag to anyone who tells me why they love CC. Who knew [...]
