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Open Source Bridge 2012

Favorite sessions for this user

* <Your Favorite Programming Language> Loses

Every programming language ever created has some horrible mistakes: your favorite is no exception. We'll talk about some fundamental principles of PL design and how they fail to play out in various real languages.
Chemistry
Bart Massey

* Building the Open Source Battle Rifle.

A look at the technical and legal issues surrounding home construction of firearms, focusing on semi-automatic AK-47 style rifles.
Hacks
Beth Flanagan

* Understand "Inform 7" as Teh Awesome.

Y'know those "Interactive Fiction" (IF) text-adventure thingies? Inform 7 is a language for writing IF in the style of English prose. It's also a neat idea for general modeling. Let's build a simple world together while learning some of what Inform 7 is about.
Chemistry
Bart Massey

Favorite proposals for this user

* Fearless M4 For The Win

The M4 macro preprocessor is a tool that inspires fear in the hearts of many open tech developers. This is kind of pathetic. I'll show you how to quickly, easily and fearlessly build useful prototype tools in M4.
Cooking 01/19/2012 04:07PM
Bart Massey

Open Source Bridge 2011

Favorite sessions for this user

* Diary of an Open Source Sysadmin Entrepreur

Half the story of the building of Puppet Labs and half instruction on how to build your own company, Luke Kanies, the founder of Puppet and Puppet Labs, will tell how he built his company and product and how you can, too.
Business
Luke Kanies

* Doing NoSQL with SQL

How to use the new NO-SQL MariaDB features from SQL.
Chemistry
Sarah Novotny

Favorite proposals for this user

* GovHub - Sustainable open source projects through government bids

Much of the difficulty for open source developers who try to work on civic or government apps is getting past the RFP process and convincing analysts and procurement officers that their projects have long term value and support. We hope to supply details on how to find and respond to the RFP process as well hints on how to work outside the process.
Business 03/08/2011 02:02AM
Greg Lind