OSDC 2006

!!!WARNING: DO NOT STARE INTO LASER WITH REMAINING EYE!!!

A bunch of notes made at the 2006 OSDC conference in Melbourne, Australia. The conference was friendly, informative and casual (who cares if its not quite as slick as North American ones when the fees are so reasonable). Attendance seems to have been about 200 or so, there were about 8 non-aussies according to a show-of-hands in a keynote._

A nice touch during the formal opening of the conference was a firm request that no language-bashing occur with some suggestion as to what was bashing as opposed to general ribbing. I'm not sure how much tweaking of presentations this resulted in but the conference generally did have a very positive nature.

The three day conference kicked off on Wed 6th December and was preceded by a day of tutorials which were lightly attended, maybe 10 people in the two tuts I went to. I guess most folks were there for the conference proper. All in all an excellent conference, definately one to keep in the calendar for next year.

Tutorials

Www Mechanize - Randal Schwartz
Template Toolkit - Randal Schwartz

Day 1

OSDC Key Note Merlyn - Randal Schwartz
Perl White Magic - Jose Castro
Rails Vs Django - Alan Green & Ben Askins
Enterprise PHP - Thorsten Rinne
Web Application Security - Chris Burgess
Publishing A Cpan Project - Leif Eriksen
OpenSourceGlue - Bernde Felsche

Day 2

OSDC Keynote Synchrotron - Richard Farnsworth
J 2 EE And Open Source Innovation - Keith Pitty
Test Non Perl With TAP - Leif Eriksen
Retooling The WWW - Kieren Diment
Reflecting On Class Dbi - Stephen Edmonds
Team Monash: Outwit, Outplay, Outlast - Hamish Carpenter

Day 3

Pillars Of FOSS - Pia Waugh
Understanding Greediness - Jacinta Richardson
Career Development For Geeks - Eric de Castro Lopo
Coding in a distriubted team - Andrew Bennets and ???
Architecting with Architypes
Tangram vs DBIx::Class - Sam Vilain

Wrap up

There was a good variety of presentations, great calibre of speaker, including a couple of international geek superstars as well as some prolific and very clever Aussie s/w developers. Content was balanced but pleasantly meaty with three streams in parallel and about 30-70 or so folks in each session.

They could easily have called the conference YAPC::AU-06 given the heavy bias and volume of Perl talk and content, suited me tho being a Perl user mostly, and it sounds like this conference was kinda spawned out of the Aussie Perl community with the idea to make it broader in nature.

The lightning talks were fun as they usually are at conferences, probably a quarter where serious and techie, about a quarter were people trying to build an app in their favourite platform in 5 minutes, and the other half were pretty entertaining combos of tech and fun.

Some takeaway items of special interest from the conference and tools or tech that are new to me or that I want to investigate further are:

YAML (simple text markup language)
DBIx::Class
Perl 5.10 developments
OWASP (application security)
Cookie Swap (browser plugin)
Web Inject (testing tool)
Beyond Fear (book)
TAP (testing protocol)
Mock Objects (testing tool)
http://iosn.net/ (open source advocacy)
Selenium (testing tool)
j Query (testing tool)
Perl Advent Calendar

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Wiki Menu: FrontPage Edit References Delete Changes Formatting Index Tags:	OSDC 2006 !!!WARNING: DO NOT STARE INTO LASER WITH REMAINING EYE!!! A bunch of notes made at the 2006 OSDC conference in Melbourne, Australia. The conference was friendly, informative and casual (who cares if its not quite as slick as North American ones when the fees are so reasonable). Attendance seems to have been about 200 or so, there were about 8 non-aussies according to a show-of-hands in a keynote._ A nice touch during the formal opening of the conference was a firm request that no language-bashing occur with some suggestion as to what was bashing as opposed to general ribbing. I'm not sure how much tweaking of presentations this resulted in but the conference generally did have a very positive nature. The three day conference kicked off on Wed 6th December and was preceded by a day of tutorials which were lightly attended, maybe 10 people in the two tuts I went to. I guess most folks were there for the conference proper. All in all an excellent conference, definately one to keep in the calendar for next year. Tutorials Www Mechanize - Randal Schwartz Template Toolkit - Randal Schwartz Day 1 OSDC Key Note Merlyn - Randal Schwartz Perl White Magic - Jose Castro Rails Vs Django - Alan Green & Ben Askins Enterprise PHP - Thorsten Rinne Web Application Security - Chris Burgess Publishing A Cpan Project - Leif Eriksen OpenSourceGlue - Bernde Felsche Day 2 OSDC Keynote Synchrotron - Richard Farnsworth J 2 EE And Open Source Innovation - Keith Pitty Test Non Perl With TAP - Leif Eriksen Retooling The WWW - Kieren Diment Reflecting On Class Dbi - Stephen Edmonds Team Monash: Outwit, Outplay, Outlast - Hamish Carpenter Day 3 Pillars Of FOSS - Pia Waugh Understanding Greediness - Jacinta Richardson Career Development For Geeks - Eric de Castro Lopo Coding in a distriubted team - Andrew Bennets and ??? Architecting with Architypes Tangram vs DBIx::Class - Sam Vilain Wrap up There was a good variety of presentations, great calibre of speaker, including a couple of international geek superstars as well as some prolific and very clever Aussie s/w developers. Content was balanced but pleasantly meaty with three streams in parallel and about 30-70 or so folks in each session. They could easily have called the conference YAPC::AU-06 given the heavy bias and volume of Perl talk and content, suited me tho being a Perl user mostly, and it sounds like this conference was kinda spawned out of the Aussie Perl community with the idea to make it broader in nature. The lightning talks were fun as they usually are at conferences, probably a quarter where serious and techie, about a quarter were people trying to build an app in their favourite platform in 5 minutes, and the other half were pretty entertaining combos of tech and fun. Some takeaway items of special interest from the conference and tools or tech that are new to me or that I want to investigate further are: YAML (simple text markup language) DBIx::Class Perl 5.10 developments OWASP (application security) Cookie Swap (browser plugin) Web Inject (testing tool) Beyond Fear (book) TAP (testing protocol) Mock Objects (testing tool) http://iosn.net/ (open source advocacy) Selenium (testing tool) j Query (testing tool) Perl Advent Calendar See Also: Web Related Conferences \| Web Development \| Notes Index
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