I’m still digesting certain parts of OSCON 2008, but I think I’ve finally settled on a conclusion for my thoughts on Sam Ramji’s presentation of Microsoft’s contributions to open source projects, and their progress toward rethinking how they do business to be more friendly toward competing platforms and technologies, so that other platforms can integrate…
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OSCON Day 1: The BoF Board, for your perusal
I’ve posted a picture of the BoF board for day 1. Click on it to see bigger sizes. The full size image (maybe smaller) is perfectly suitable for reading at your leisure. I’ll update this if/when I see significant changes to it:
Notes on Book Shopping from a Tech Bibliophile
Hi. My name is Brian, and I’m a tech bibliophile. I have owned more books covering more technologies than I care to admit. Some of my more technical friends have stood in awe of the number of tech books I own. I am also constantly rotating old books that almost *can’t* be useful anymore out…
Simple S3 Log Archival
UPDATE: if anyone knows of a non-broken syntax highlighting plugin for wordpress that supports bash or some other shell syntax, let me know :-/ Apache logs, database backups, etc., on busy web sites, can get large. If you rotate logs or perform backups regularly, they can get large and numerous, and as we all know,…