John Adams’ views on emerging technologies, software engineering, and various hacks
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Macworld 2009 is this week in my home town of San Francisco, and while we won’t have Jobs’ famous Keynote speech nor the participation of Apple this year, we will have the usual barrage of Macworld Parties.
A great list of events and parties is right here.
My week looks a bit [...]
Brady just posted links to numerous presentations from Web 2.0 Expo Europe. The LolCats have taken over presentations at most major web conferences these days. Nearly every presentation I looked at had a LOLCat on one of their slides.
Those that were lacking in an actual LOLCat slide featured lots of LOLSpeak. I know we’re discussing [...]
My discoveries with the Wall of Sheep at Defcon 16 and it’s application to Twitter security were mentioned on the August 12, 2008 Data Security Podcast.
They called me one of the “good guys”. Heh!
You can listen to it here:
http://datasecurityblog.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/data-security-podcast-episode-13-aug-11-2008/
I’m heading to Defcon 16 on Thursday to talk to some fellow hackers, meet colleagues, and to hopefully, not lose my shirt in Vegas. I think I’ll be much too busy to gamble, really.
For a conference that is so technically minded, they didn’t post the conference schedule in a useful format (HTML only! ew!), so [...]
Velocity was great. Today’s best talks were on Puppet, and EUCALYPTUS, both methods for automatically setting up, configuring, and deploying systems.
Now, a couple of computer history lessons for you, lest you believe that all of the fancy, state-of-the-art talks at Velocity were not built on the backs of giants:
History of programming languages, in a graphical [...]
Velocity (day one) went amazingly well. Again, let me thank Jesse for dinner and the chance to speak there.
Part way through the day I got caught up in a bit of a media circus, but I survived. I finally got to meet Steve Gillmor, even if he had a camera shoved in my face.
(Oh [...]
I made it to Velocity around lunch as I was dealing with work business, but so far it’s been pretty decent. Thanks to Jesse Robbins for the invite to speak this evening at Ignite, and for access to the conference.
The day opened (for me, at least) with the Measuring Performance presentation. The general takeaway [...]
I am speaking at Ignite Velocity (which is part of the O’Rellly velocity conference).
I’ll be giving a short presentation on Scaling sites for adult hosting, which will cover technical and operations aspects of building sites to scale for video.
I’ll post up slides shortly.
The kind people who run Ignite finally got around to posting my Snarkatron slides, which are now available on slideshare (with audio, thanks to DNA’s webcast.)
Slideshare link for snarkatron slides
I apologize for talking so fast; I only had five minutes!
I’d like to share with you some takeaways from the Web 2.0 conference, mainly in the realm of scaling and web development.
John Allspaw’s Capacity Planning for Web Operations:
http://www.slideshare.net/jallspaw/capacity-planning-for-web-operations-web20-expo-2008
Why startups need automated infrastructures
This talk was pretty awseome. It dealt with automating operations work.
http://www.slideshare.net/adamhjk/why-startups-need-automated-infrastructures
Scalable Web Architectures: Common Patterns and Approaches (2007)
http://www.slideshare.net/techdude/scalable-web-architectures-common-patterns-and-approaches/
I’m also adding my friend’s talk (Artur [...]