http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog?noCache=778:1371632381 http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/calwac2-notes-testing-for-accessibility?noCache=907:1371632381 By Jim Thatcher. Presentation slides: http://jimthatcher.com/knowbility/testing0906.html. The most important message I got from this presentation is that accessibility testing is a multi-dimensional process. You can’t assume your site is accessible by running it through an automated check. Human testing is also required. http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/calwac2-notes-testing-for-accessibility?noCache=907:1371632381 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:24:08 -0700 http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/calwac2-advanced-topics-in-css?noCache=555:1371632381 By Jon Wiley del.icio.us/jonwiley/css - A lot of information is packed into a short amount of time. Below is an outline. Detailed information on this session can be found at www.jonwiley.com/knowbility/classes/advancedcss/index.htm http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/calwac2-advanced-topics-in-css?noCache=555:1371632381 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:24:08 -0700 http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/calwac2-notes-the-web-devlopment-toolkit-tools-and-tricks-of-the-trade?noCache=325:1371632381 By Paul Reuger. This session covered web development/QA tools (mostly Firefox extensions), streamlining the web production process, and creating a framework/styleguide for web production to support workflow and ensure that QA and accessibility testing are not overlooked. http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/calwac2-notes-the-web-devlopment-toolkit-tools-and-tricks-of-the-trade?noCache=325:1371632381 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:24:08 -0700 http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/calwac2-notes-javascript-and-accessibility?noCache=836:1371632381 By Jordan Casper, www.jkdesign.org, University of Texas at Austin. Most of the session involved creating and analyzing scripts, which can be found at http://www.jkdesign.org/JS/slides/calwac_2006_ex.html http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/calwac2-notes-javascript-and-accessibility?noCache=836:1371632381 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:24:08 -0700 http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/making-tech-documentaries?noCache=213:1371632381 On Friday, I attended a talk titled Making Tech Documentaries by Jason Scott. http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/making-tech-documentaries?noCache=213:1371632381 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:24:07 -0700 http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/deploying-rails-apps-with-capistrano?noCache=286:1371632381 On Wednesday I attended a session named Deploying Rails Apps with Capistrano by Mike Clark, which introduced Capistrano, a rails application for deploying rails (and other technology) applications to multiple machines in multiple configurations. All of the configuration is done in ruby, and it's very simple to set up and to customize. The command set allows not only for deployment but also rollback of code sets, as well as data migration advances and rollbacks. http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/deploying-rails-apps-with-capistrano?noCache=286:1371632381 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:24:07 -0700 http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/oscon-2006-my-notes?noCache=653:1371632381 I have posted my notes in my blog. All OSCON entries are preceded with OSCON 2006. http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/oscon-2006-my-notes?noCache=653:1371632381 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:24:07 -0700 http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/oss-project-press-relations?noCache=115:1371632382 On Thursday I attended a session named OSS Project Press Relations by Josh Berkus, which covered a lot of excellent advice for interacting with the press if you're trying to get coverage for your open source project. In summary, Josh covers the following issues: http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/oss-project-press-relations?noCache=115:1371632382 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:24:07 -0700 http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/friday-morning-keynotes?noCache=497:1371632382 Tired and weary from the week, I made it to the final day's morning keynotes which were inpsiring, informative, and entertaining. http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/friday-morning-keynotes?noCache=497:1371632382 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:24:07 -0700 http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/dimdim-the-worlds-free-web-conference?noCache=872:1371632382 On Wednesday I attended a session named dimdim: The World's Free Web Conference by Prakash Khot and DD Ganguly, which showed off an alpha of a fully open source web conferencing platform that looks very promising. The clients use a combination of html, ajax and flash, and the server runs on standard open source software, with a centralized management admin interface built in. http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/dimdim-the-worlds-free-web-conference?noCache=872:1371632382 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:24:07 -0700 http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/harishs-entries-on-his-blog?noCache=683:1371632383 Harish has posted a good deal on OSCON at his blog, Busy IT Bee http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/harishs-entries-on-his-blog?noCache=683:1371632383 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:24:07 -0700 http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/simplifying-service-oriented-applications-with-apache-tuscany?noCache=420:1371632383 On Thursday I attended a session named Simplifying Service-oriented Applications with Apache Tuscany Jeremy Boynes, which discusses the Service Oriented Application pattern for connecting applications as services to one another, and relying on the assembly framework to handle the connections. Apache Tuscany is an early implementation of a system to handle the linkages and leaving the applications with very simple interfaces to implement. The implementation is language-agnostic, and has many interesting features: http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/simplifying-service-oriented-applications-with-apache-tuscany?noCache=420:1371632383 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:24:07 -0700 http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/open-source-performance-monitoring-tools-tips-and-tricks-for-java?noCache=306:1371632383 On Friday I attended a session named Open Source Performance Monitoring Tools, Tips and Tricks for Java by Matt Secoske, that covered a number of different tools to help profile and monitor performance for Java applications. Some of the important issues he covered in his talk were: http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/open-source-performance-monitoring-tools-tips-and-tricks-for-java?noCache=306:1371632383 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:24:07 -0700 http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/building-java-web-applications-with-tapestry?noCache=344:1371632383 On Wednesday I attended a session named Building Java Web Applications with Tapestry by Howard Lewis Ship, which detailed the Tapestry framework, a framework for creating web interfaces that is very similar to Apple's WebObjects frameworks. The framework understands concepts of application, page, and components, and http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/building-java-web-applications-with-tapestry?noCache=344:1371632383 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:24:07 -0700 http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/java-and-ruby-integration?noCache=219:1371632383 On Wednesday I attended a session named Ruby for Java Programmers by Ugo Cei, which detailed several methods to get Ruby and Java to work together. Several projects were mentioned for either using Ruby inside of the Java compiler, or using java inside of Ruby: http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/java-and-ruby-integration?noCache=219:1371632383 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:19:55 -0700 http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/using-ruby-on-rails-and-ajax-to-make-a-massive-multiplayer-game?noCache=94:1371632383 I attended a session on Wednesday named Using Ruby on Rails and Ajax to Make a Massive Multiplayer Game by Michael Buffington which completely blew my mind, and made me want to run out and create my own Ruby on Rails game immediately. Michael created an online persistent web-based game inspired by a game called 'Macropoly', which in turn was inspired by Monopoly, and came up with http://llor.nu (unroll spelled backwards). http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/using-ruby-on-rails-and-ajax-to-make-a-massive-multiplayer-game?noCache=94:1371632383 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:19:54 -0700 http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/going-open-source?noCache=743:1371632384 This presentation was based on Lars Thalmann's (http://larsthalmann.com/) experience with MySQL cluster that was developed at Ericsson R&D and was later purchased by MySQL. http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/going-open-source?noCache=743:1371632384 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:19:54 -0700 http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/lightning-states-of__?noCache=170:1371632384 This was a session from last night on the state of software. The updates were done in 5 minutes, hence the term "lightning". http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/lightning-states-of__?noCache=170:1371632384 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:19:54 -0700 http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/using-google-web-toolkit?noCache=355:1371632384 A session I attended on Thursday named Using Google Web Toolkit by Bret Taylor and Bruce Johnson was one of the coolest and most inspiring I'd seen at the entire conference. In a nutshell, Google's open source initiatives have among many other things produced a set of frameworks and a compiler that allows you to http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/using-google-web-toolkit?noCache=355:1371632384 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:19:54 -0700 http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/oscon-2006-day-two----release-management-automation?noCache=29:1371632384 This morning I attended a session titled Large Scale Webapps: Managing Releases and DevTeam Infrastructure by Jonathan Oxer (slides can be found at http://jon.oxer.com.au/talks) that laid out a fairly comprehensive model for a highly automated development 'Release Management Automation' environment from source code management, to internal documentation, to bug tracking, to packaging, pre-release testing, and finally package release. http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/oscon-2006-day-two----release-management-automation?noCache=29:1371632384 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:19:54 -0700 http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/oscon-2006---opening-evening-speakers?noCache=123:1371632384 Tuesday's opening speakers were all very entertaining. Not including the awards given out to members of the open source community, Larry Wahl gave his 'State of the Onion' talk, Damian Conway gave a humorous spoof on the Da Vinci Code by the name of 'The Da Vinci Code Base', and Kathy Sierra gave a fascinating and inspiring talk on inspiring passion in your users by the name of 'Cognitive Seduction'. http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/oscon-2006---opening-evening-speakers?noCache=123:1371632384 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:19:54 -0700 http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/marketing-to-dilbert-how-to-invite-developers-to-your-project?noCache=721:1371632384 I attended a session on Thursday named Marketing to Dilbert: How to Invite Developers Into Your Project, which I had assumed would give me a bit of information about how to convince developers to join an open source project, but in fact did not really live up to my expectations. The session really was aimed more at business community members on how to practice marketing that appeals to developers, but felt mostly like a repurposing of a general marketing talk. http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/marketing-to-dilbert-how-to-invite-developers-to-your-project?noCache=721:1371632384 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:19:54 -0700 http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/oscon-2006-is-over----i-have-lots-to-blog?noCache=620:1371632384 I'm at the airport now at 4:30, and I've been so very busy with all the work and all the fun and all the learning, that I havent' had a chance to post anything for days! I have tons of entries that I will start to crank out now -- hopefully they are of use to someone out there. Sameer and Harish also had a similiarly excellent (albeit busy) time. I've got a lot to take home and process now from the conference. http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/oscon-2006-is-over----i-have-lots-to-blog?noCache=620:1371632384 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:19:54 -0700 http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/open-source-voting?noCache=769:1371632384 Wednesday evening I attended a session called Open Source Voting by Arthur Keller and David Mertz which talked about the open voting initiatives and organizations, and the work of the Open Voting Consortium to produce a demonstration prototype for a secure and private but accurate and verifiable electronic voting system http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/open-source-voting?noCache=769:1371632384 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:19:54 -0700 http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/oscon-2006-day-two----testing-web-apps?noCache=292:1371632385 This afternoon's tutorial, Rock-solid Web Development: Testing Web Apps by John Paul Ashenfelter (slides at http://www.transitionpoint.com or http://www.ashenfelter.com), has so far been the most valuable session I've attended so far, even if it is only for showing me that Selenium exists. http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/oscon-2006-day-two----testing-web-apps?noCache=292:1371632385 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:19:54 -0700 http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/welcome-to-oscon-2006---tutorials-day-one-ruby-rails?noCache=43:1371632385 Hello everyone, and welcome to the first entry from OSCON 2006. Monday and Tuesday are pre-conference tutorial sessions, and I opted to attend The Ruby Guidebook and Rails Guidebook. Unfortunately, through some weird quirk of events, I ended up going to the hospital this morning due http://cats.cdl.edu/cats_resources/blog/welcome-to-oscon-2006---tutorials-day-one-ruby-rails?noCache=43:1371632385 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:15:45 -0700