OSCON 2008
2008-07-21..2008-07-25
Portland, United States
OSCON ·
[OSCON 2008, OSCON 2009, OSCON 2010, OSCON 2010 Cloud Summit, OSCON 2014, OSCON 2017, OSCON 2019]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Jason Hunter on MarkMail.org: OSCON 2008 | Jason Hunter | 09m |
MarkMail runs as an XML-backed search and visualization site holding about 0.5 TB / 17M messages today with attachments stored as PDFs/images and plans to… | ||
| Talks Books and Conferences | Andy Oram | 07m |
Covers O’Reilly’s shift to cross-discipline books such as Art of Capacity Planning and Beautiful Code and the growth of the theory and practice series… | ||
| Jerry Carter at OSCON 2008 | Jerry Carter | 17m |
Samba 3.2, released July 1 2008, introduces real features: support for cross-forest transitive trust and one-way/into-way trusts, a registry-backed dynamic… | ||
| Steve Souders at OSCON 2008 | Steve Souders | 30m |
Describes measurable claims and concrete fixes: the performance Golden Rule shows only 10–20% of page load time comes from server-side HTML and 80–90% from… | ||
| A talk | Toby Segaran | 19m |
Describes building Freebase as a massive semantic open database that extracts and links data from Wikipedia, SEC, FDA, FCC so users can run sophisticated… | ||
| The Ever-Dynamic | John Lam | 17m |
Builds a Ruby implementation from scratch on top of the CLR using a shared runtime library called the DLR that reuses JIT, GC and dynamic dispatch so language… | ||
| Walking the Thin Line | Joe _Zonker_ Brockmeier | 10m |
Novell acquires SUSE in 2003 and announces the openSUSE project in 2005; by 2008 it celebrates a third anniversary and ships openSUSE 11. Novell releases the… | ||
| The Father of perl Persistence | Tim Bunce | 09m |
Origin and timeline: perl DBI starts as a 1992 idea and first ships in 1994, kept off the core to allow independent releases. Design choices: a… | ||
| Josh Berkus at OSCON: Sun, MySQL, PostgreSQL | Josh Berkus | 16m |
Claims Sun shifts focus to revenue after acquiring MySQL, leading to departure from its small PostgreSQL team; a GPL-only MySQL fork called Drizzle cuts… | ||
| Google's Chris DiBona at OSCON | Chris DiBona | 21m |
Google has a long association with Open Source, both by fostering its development and releasing its own software into the community. The man responsible for… | ||
| Über Tech Lead On Code Revi | Alex Martelli | 21m |
Argues that open source under-uses code review and that reviews improve code quality and learning by catching code smells and design issues tests miss, cites… | ||
| What's Coming up on the Radar | Nathan Torkington | 22m |
Surveys open-source genetic building blocks and the DIY genomics movement, noting sequencing costs drop from tens of thousands to about $1,000 and a parent… | ||
| Reflects on 10 Years of | Tim O'Reilly | 19m |
Looks back at the first decade of OSCON and claims open source has mostly won — even Microsoft as a diamond sponsor — while adoption is far higher in Fortune… | ||
| Pia Waugh of Software Freedom International at OSCON | Pia Waugh | 24m |
Software Freedom International coordinates global outreach with 330 teams from 90 countries running events from hackfests to village-wide marches. Work focuses… | ||
| The Mysterious Work of the | Jim Zemlin | 24m |
Explains that the Linux Foundation funds coordination and standards work, defends users through a legal defense fund, and brokers cooperation across projects… | ||
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