Something interesting happened today at my apartment. I was sitting at my computer around 3pm when I heard a loud bang and the power went out. I looked outside and saw a car had run into the power pole on the corner. I went outside and called 911. The power pole [...]
A month ago I went to the Portland Rose Garden and took some photos. Here are some roses for Rose.
Today I rode in the Providence Bridge Pedal, a big community bike ride in Portland. I heard an estimate of 18,000 people. I can believe it; it was more crowded this year compared to last year. There were bnottleneck this year where people had to get off and walk. I heard [...]
For a special meeting of Portland Perl Mongers on Friday, Stas Beckman talked about mod_perl 2.0. He talked for three hours and only went through probably half of his slides.
He went quickly through the difference between modperl 1 and modperl 2 but he demonstrated a lot of the new modperl 2 API. He [...]
After OSCON on Wednesday, I met up with Michael Schwern and friends. We went to FOSCON, a Ruby gathering a Free Geek.
We missed the Ruby on Rails talk which is probably the technical introduction I didn’t get at OSCON.
I did get to see a Ruby Metaprogramming talk by Glenn Vanderburg. I [...]
I went to a day of sessions last Wednesday at OSCON. Here are the session I went to:
Shtoom
First, I went to talk by Anthony Baxter about shtoom, a SIP stack written in Python. As he explained multiple times, VOIP and SIP are complicated. Which makes writing a complete stack by himself even [...]
I went to two days of OSCON last week. My company finally decided to send me on Monday. The first day, August 2, I went to the Slony-I Replication Tutorial. Slony is a replication system for PostgreSQL. We use it at work to replicate a master database to two slave databases. [...]
Last Monday, I became an uncle. My brother and his wife had a baby girl, Rose Athena Martinsen-Burrell. Lara went into labor on Saturday evening. Rose was born by C-section 42 hours later.
He sent out a picture:
Hopefully, they will post more pictures at his blog or the baby’s website.