Conferences: lots of folks you want to meet, many spaces to be in, lots happening at the same time.
In Danish they call it “at gå glip” (to miss out). Getting good at missing out is an important part of growing up.
Wait, I’m not trying to tell you to cope with your fear of missing out, I’m just… rambling. Ruby and Python conference, in Poznan, Poland. Hosted by some fine young Europeans. Last year, magical.
So, make a talk proposal already! I might do that, too, you know.
Blogged with Flock
They say that the people of Flock have worked on the memory leakage issues of Firefox. I’m trying that out for truth (by running Flock).
If Flock manages to pull me away from NetNewsWire Lite, I’ll be a happy toad. Less apps.
That I now have my social media items under my fingertips all the time is also… a side-effect I have to deal with. Good laced with dangerous, for a procrastinator like me.
Blogged with Flock
I got this fine email from the organizers of Nordic Game Jam. I thought I’d share it here, since it might be of local hackerly interest.
Update: The entrance fee is totally low, at 200 DKK. (26.8 EUR, or 39.5 USD)
Dear all,
For the third year in a row: Check out the program for Nordic Game Jam, 1-3 Feb. 2008, in Copenhagen.
Event details page over at Diginet.
In 2006, 40 participants produced 8 games.
In 2007, 75 participants produced 12 games.
In 2008 we expect around 100 participants from all over Scandinavia with one thing in common: Everybody want to have a weekend with fun, creative challenges and networking with other professionals interested in (game) design, programming, sound design/music or graphics.
Please pass the link and flyer on to others in your network that might be interested in joining the event.
Hope to see you there…
Last year’s events:
A Swede made the first WideFinder implementation in Io: Ragnar Dahlén.
The results were informative, but not performant. Io can not compete just there, just yet.
Me and Thorbiörn were conspiring last week to implement WideFinder, but we got waylaid by… distractions. The distractions were speculative, lazy, and touched on different OCamls. Like this: “We need an OCaml-shaped project. To help us learn.”
The usual get-started project is “Make an HTTP server than can 200 and 404. At least.” Hardly qualifies as OCaml-shaped…
I attended a local geek meetup at La Trattoria, at 18:30 this past Wednesday. (map)
I can recommend the mozzarella add-on to any pizza.
InterSystems Caché® got hard slammed at the meeting. Horrible war stories about that object-oriented database. The guy who told them, Micke, was also a Högskolan i Skövde alumnus.
New visitor record, says Magnus.
This morning, I ordered Peter Seibel‘s Practical Common Lisp as a paper book. Turns out, there is a Google Video with him, from 2006.
More groups of people who want to fiddle with opensource software: Hackaton.se. They have an event in Malmö, at a school, 23-25 november.
Just to let you know, so you can spread the word. I’ll write more when I know more.
Update! An attentive reader, also being the organizer of the upcoming event emailed me, and told me more. It’s called “Hack-a-ton”, note the Scandinavian spelling. URL changed to reflect this.
