OSCON Day 3: Observations

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David Lents
Aug. 03, 2005 05:01 PM
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It's day three here at OSCON. The new venue this year (Oregon Convention Center) is beautiful and spacious, but I do miss a certain vibe from the previous two OSCONs at the Marriott in downtown Portland where everyone attended and stayed to congregate in the same places. The sessions were very crowded last year though, so the venue upgrade was inevitable.

Hot topics and observations so far:

• Perl is dead, long live Ruby (on Rails), PHP, and Ajax. Personally, I'm not buying this theory just yet.
• Lots of buzz about new O'Reilly sites: O'Reilly Connection, CodeZoo, and Make.
• It appears there are a lot more females in attendance this year, which is very encouraging.

My lovable boss, Tony Stubblebine, has a nice write-up about the response to the O'Reilly Connection preview on his blog.

CodeZoo has announced new components for Python and Ruby.

David Lents is a Software Engineer for O'Reilly's Online Publishing Group.

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• Most importantly
  2005-08-04 14:59:12  Terrie Miller | [View]
  
  
  Does the new venue have a good spot for the OPG Office? Are you all staying properly hydrated?

• Other OSCON observations
  2005-08-09 17:09:36  tonystubblebine | [View]
  
  
  Did you notice that the decreased MySQL presence made Postgresql look a lot more popular. Or maybe Postgresql really is a lot more popular, I've had a ton of people tell me that recently.
  
  Also, not sure how I feel about being lovable.

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