premshree

OSCON was a lot of fun. My talk went pretty well. I think. Here’s the presentation, if you’re interested.

A lot of the sessions and tutorials were nice—I mostly attended a bunch of Perl talks. Among the keynotes, the best, in my opinion, was Kathy Sierra’s.

Oh, this picture that I took won a runner-up prize at the Third Annual OSCON Photo Contest. So I got a HP Photosmart R717. Just like that.

Also, during the OSCON week, we released an update of our Search Web Services SDK. Here’s the announcement. It now includes the Lua and Ruby bindings that I had worked on earlier.

I’ll write more about the stuff that happened during that week if/when I get time.

» Pictures from OSCON 2006

MJD was talking about Memoize. Here it is in Ruby:

module Memoize
  def memoize(func_name)
    cache = {}
    (class<<elf; self; end).send(:define_method, func_name) { |*args| 
      return cache[args] if cache.has_key? args
      cache[args] = super     
    }       
  end     
end

There’s a lot of code in the Perl Memoize module; maybe it does other things—I haven’t really looked. Oh, and here’s this Memoize module from RAA. I’m some months late. :-)

Here’s some pictures from Portland.

It’s been about three days or so that a few of us haven’t slept well. Mostly hacking away and playing pool—the usual. Hack Day began at 00:01 and lasted until 16:00. The number of folks hacking away in the night was less than what we had hoped for. So for us it was a day like any other. The nice part, though, was the number of folks who participated. Unlike those of us who hack regularly, some people need incentives. Economics.

The Next Best Thing I was working on didn’t cut it. Another one of my hacks made it to the list of finalists, though.

Rest of the evening was spent at Geoffrey’s followed by dinner at one of the restaurants there, with Chad Dickerson [pics]. I was supposed to fly to Bombay yesterday night; rescheduled it for today morning (if it weren’t for Her, I would’ve missed my flight). So yeah, in Bombay (extremely hot here, btw) now. I think I’m going to Daman tomorrow. Time to catch up on lost sleep now.

Btw, sleeping in a sleeping bag is orgasmic! Yeah!

PS: pictures taken using my new Canon Powershot SD600.

PPS: OSCON schedule is out. My talk abstract here.

[...] Congratulations! You have been accepted as a presenter for the O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2006 at the Oregon Convention Center July 24, 2006 - July 28, 2006. [...]

Yeah, I’ll be speaking at OSCON 2006. Will be nice to meet some of the Ruby guys and the Pugs folks. I guess I’ll be in the Bay Area after the conference.

McManus has probably demoed GeoURL Yahoo! Mapping at OSCON. I can’t be terribly sure, but we know that he intended to :-).

After a long day of black widowing, a crate of beer’s probably what’s needed.