Proposals

Brandon Philips

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Brandon Philips

Biography

Brandon is the Developer Happiness Engineer at Rackspace/Cloudkick in San Francisco. Previously he worked as a Kernel developer at Novell/SuSE Labs.

He has presented at several technical conferences in the past including FreedomHEC Taipei, Linux Plumbers Conf and Ignite Portland 2 . In his spare time he tinkers with electronics and software, bikes, hikes and builds robots. For more information checkout his site.

Open Source Bridge 2011

Sessions for this user

* Beaming Up With Alien and Lua

lua is an extension language that is used in everything from mail filters to World of Warcraft. Learn how you can script C libraries with lua and alien.
Chemistry
Brandon Philips

Open Source Bridge 2010

Proposals for this user

* Fiddling with Linux

A violin is an analog instrument beloved throughout the world. I started playing at the end of 2009 and will spare sharing my skills but, I will share Linux tools, scripts and hardware I use to help learn and play.
Hacks 03/25/2010 10:38PM
Brandon Philips

* Get organized: Emacs a la org-mode

Have you ever finished a day and wondered where the time went? Need to bill customers but only have a vague idea of your actual effort? Get back on track with a heaping scoop of org-mode!
Cooking 03/16/2010 07:00AM
Brandon Philips

* Write a Linux Device Driver: Flipping bits, blinking lights and crashing Kernels

Curious what makes your hardware tick? Itching to crash your system in a indiviualized way? Then you should try your hand at writing a device driver for Linux.
Chemistry 03/25/2010 10:31PM
Brandon Philips

Open Source Bridge 2009

Sessions for this user

* Building an embedded Linux system monitoring device

As a Kernel developer I spend alot of my day looking at syslogs and rebooting systems. So, I set off to automate the process and you, the audience, will get an introduction to building ARM software and network device drivers.
Hacks
Brandon Philips