OSCON wrapup
Submitted by jeff on July 27, 2007 - 2:39pm.Just got back from Portland, and while the trip was short, it was fun and completely worth it. The Petfinder development team was there, and as we're all remote it's good to see each other face to face every so often. I also reconnected with some folks I haven't seen in a couple years, and, with some help from particle, resurrected mod_parrot from its feathery ashes. More on that soon.
As for the conference itself, there was a mix of good and not so good, as should be expected. Some of the highlights for me were Simon Peyton-Jones' keynote on software transactional memory, Tim Bunce's session on DBI::Gofer, which may prove to be useful at the day job, and Jonathan Worthington's .NET to Parrot bytecode talk. He may be crazier than I am. Chris Shiflett's Security 2.0 talk was good as well -- no surprise there. (You're welcome, Chris. ;-)
Of course the hallway track was the highlight for me, as always. I spent a lot of time hacking on mod_parrot and catching up with everyone, but I still missed a few people I knew were there. Oh well.
And now I'm off to get some rest. That redeye flight back to Philly was not pleasant at all.