I'm sitting in the hotel lounge in the midst of other hackers, either talking or typing away on their laptops. I don't have my notebook in front of me so I can't give a more detailed description of the weekend but overall it was an amazing conference. I'm very happy to have been here for the first conference and hopefully I can make it a yearly event.
I'll have more later on the various things I saw and heard this weekend but for now, my pint is calling and there are hacks to be done.
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I missed registration last night because I was in the city but it has been quite amazing seeing the transformation of the Wyndham from a sleepy hotel to one overflowing with geeks and laptops. Thankfully I'll register this morning just before the opening keynote from Dave Thomas.
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Like Edd, I leave tomorrow for RailsConf. Not only am I very excited about going to what should be a very amazing conference but it's also being held in Chicago.
I haven't spent any time other than layovers at O'Hare there since I left back in '95. I can't wait to head into the city for a bit. Plus, I'm staying Monday and Tuesday after the conference so I can catch the Cubs.
I'm going with 3 other developers from work.
BTW, you can check out a real-live Rails production app at myFavorites.
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I didn't check my feeds all weekend so I was a bit surprised to come upon this post from Dave Winer saying that EarthLink sucks. While I do understand the annoyance of advertisements, I do think it is short-sighted of Dave to put all of them blame on EarthLink. It isn't like we forced Steve Gillmor and the Gillmor Gang to run the ads.
And I would love to hear a podcast from people talking about how we can do a better job helping them communicate and find things over any IP device.
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That's how long it is until the World Cup starts. I am very excited about the month ahead.
Joshua Bloch explains why all binary searches seem to broken.
This bug can manifest itself for arrays whose length (in elements) is 230 or greater (roughly a billion elements).
The most impressive thing about this is that Google is dealing with arrays with a billion elements. That seems unfathomable on certain levels.
Having lived thru many games where Kyle Farnsworth came in, walked a few and then gave up a hit to lose a lead, I have a bit of sympathy for James but then again, he is rooting for the Yankees so the majority of it is gone.
He does make an excellent point about the infuriating decision by managers many times in how they use their bullpen. A few years ago, Dusty Baker would just leave the starters in and let the pitch counts get higher and higher but now he's much quicker with the hook. It's a fine line for the managers but it does seem they look to the book too quick sometimes instead of staying with a hot pitcher.