Monthly Archives: October 2007

Live from Barcamp – Day 2 – Session 4 [for me] Ruby on Rails panel

Looks like just two panelists.  Didn’t get the names. Starting discussion with scaling issues of mongrel server.  I was expecting more of a discussion of rails, pros and cons, this seems to be more of a discussion of memory use on the server and scalability.  Database load failed to scale for Twitter, sooner than the […]
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Live from Barcamp – Day 2 – Session 3 [for me] Google Web Toolkit

Presenter – Robert Cooper Had a good lunch – everything food-wise that you can possibly put on a stick – finishing with chocolate covered cheesecake on a stick.  Who can complain about that? Now sitting in Cooper’s session on Google Web Toolkit – a Java to javascript compiler.  It’s certain to be way over my […]
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Live from Barcamp – Day 2 – Session 2 [for me] Second Life

Presenter – Michael Ivey Blow by blow – sort of: What is the value? Michael finds that using 2nd Life makes for richer distance communication, as an alternate to just chat or other non-visual communication.   Virtual marketing — Nissan had virtual cars to drive around and they came out of a giant vending machine.  Other […]
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Live from Barcamp – Day 2 – Session 1 [for me] Drupal sh*t

Presenter: Rusty Stanton The setting — grabbing OJ and a muffin on the run.  Can’t find the room.  found the room and Rusty.  No projector.  Wing it. The paraphrase: Quick recap on using drupal to present podcasts.  Question to class – experience with drupal?   A Joomla user says he went to that platform cause […]
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Live from Barcamp pt. 4 — Merb

Well before Merb, a good chat between sessions with Cooper about JavaFX, Silverlight, and other things – found out that he has a book coming out – Way to go Cooper! Now on to the session – Michael Ivey presents on merb — this is bound to be over my head [or rather, even more […]
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Live from Barcamp pt. 3 — Facebook apps.

This session is packed!  Had to move to a bigger room.  speaker [Ididn’t get his name ]   is going to show a flickr app he is working [ speaker is Chris Martin gcjmartin@gmail.com]  – [sorry for the messy posting – typing and listening] The blow-by-blow: Shows his Facebook profile – has numerous plug-ins app.   Wanted […]
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