SCALE 6x: Wrapup - People

While I met a lot of great people at SCALE  (Michael, Moose, Sharon and a host more) I had generally interesting non-private discussions with (or observations about) the following:

Allison Randal - OSCON co-chair and Parrot architect - gave a great presentation on Parrot and an excellent  low-stress guide to effective speaking. We also spent some [...]

SCALE 6x: Getting There

If you read my post on getting the most out of conference attendance, you know that I'm trying to reduce the environmental costs associated with my conference attendance. I even made a plan. As with most plans, real life is a bit different. Here's how I've done:

Taxi from home to YVR (I would have taken [...]

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Planning my SCALE 6x Attendance

In about a week, I'll be heading down to Los Angeles to participate in SCALE 6x, the sixth annual Southern California Linux Expo. In addition to visiting the event, I'll be giving my Age of Literate Machines presentation, updated for 2008 and supported by more research. I'll be joining another Mozillion - Chris Blizzard, who [...]

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PHP Con West 2003

I will be attending and speaking at PHP Con West 2003.

The conference runs from October 21st to 24th and features some of my favorite people. Sterling and Thies even give the closing keynote! :)

I have a session titled Opening the Toybox: A Hands-on Overview of MySQL's New Features

Interestingly, Josh Berkus from the PostgreSQL advocacy project [...]