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Your favorite presentation tool – tell us!

We’ve seen a few speakers throw down their favorite presentation tools recently:

So, that’s console-presenter and showoff, so far. I also know some very bold presenters use LaTeX with Beamer for theirs.
What do you use? And why?
(And while you’re here – Don’t forget to mark your favorite conference sessions to help us with scheduling! It’s [...]

Town Hall happened – Now what?

Thanks to the 30+ people who showed up to our inaugural town hall! We saw familiar and new faces and got down to the business of organizing the conference. Ed graciously recorded a video, which we’ll publish as soon as its ready.
I forgot to mention a few important things for the new comers – [...]

Book a Room, Get the Early Bird Rate Part 2

So, we ran a promotion a little while ago to help motivate people to book rooms at the Hilton.
To recap, if you booked your stay at the Hilton, we would send you a code to use to register for the conference at the Early Bird rate of $175.
The promotion ran from May 28 to June [...]

Speaker focus: Unit test your Database!

David Wheeler is a consultant and developer presenting Unit Test Your Database at 10am on Thursday, June 18.
Here’s why you should attend my Open Source Bridge talk, “Unit Test Your Database!”:

To see test-driven development in action
To watch me ship well-tested code with a serious bug
To witness on-stage beer consumption
To laugh at testing misconceptions
To get [...]

Speaker focus: Relax with CouchDB

This is a guest post from Chris Anderson, a CouchDB developer presenting Deploying from the edge with CouchDB.
We know good things happen when users control their data and have access to the application source code. The web gave us an incredible simple model for application development, but the downside was code locked up on servers, [...]