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MacWorld 2009 is Upon Us

Posted by John Adams on January 5th, 2009

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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 [...]

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Got lolz? Web2.0 Expo Berlin does.

Posted by John Adams on October 24th, 2008

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 [...]

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random media mention…

Posted by John Adams on August 19th, 2008

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/

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Defcon 16 Schedule in iCal Format

Posted by John Adams on August 4th, 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 [...]

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A history lesson.

Posted by John Adams on June 25th, 2008

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 [...]

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Velocity Ignite!

Posted by John Adams on June 24th, 2008

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 [...]

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Day one, Velocity…

Posted by John Adams on June 23rd, 2008

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 [...]

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Speaking at Ignite Velocity

Posted by John Adams on June 21st, 2008

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.

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Snarkatron slides up.

Posted by John Adams on May 8th, 2008

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!
 

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Scaling and Web Operations at Web 2.0 Expo

Posted by John Adams on April 29th, 2008

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 [...]

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