OSCON 2007 Trip Report

As reported earlier jMaki and GlassFish, along with a host of other Sun-led open source technologies (NetBeans, OpenJDK, OpenDS, Project Indiana, etc.), were present at OSCON 2007 last week. I spent my entire 2 days at the jMaki booth which had a consistent stream of visitors on both the days. In case you are interested, here is what I presented:

• What is jMaki ?
• Running Mashup with jMaki
• Displaying RSS feed in jMaki widgets
• jMaki on Rails

The videos of other demos shown at the pod will be made available on this blog in the next few days.

I could not attend any of the sessions except some of the keynote sessions on second day. Of all the keynote videos the one I'd like you to watch is Overcoming Bias by Prof Robin Hanson. The professor, an Economic Theorist, talks about how cognitive bias cause software projects to slip. Some of the quotes from his talk are "Be more honest about writing code" and "If you really care about truth, you'll work at it and try to overcome bias".

Here are some pictures.

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