Speaking of foss.in…
Looks like the first shortlist of talks for foss.in was not enough, we now have the first list of special speakers: Jeremy Zawodny, Harald Welte, Brian Behlendorf, Rasmus Lerdorf, Dave Phillips, Danese Cooper, Alan Cox (yes, I said Alan Cox)… the list is impressive!
October 25th, 2005 at 5:38 am
Swaroop, I see you’re an early adopter and you’re doing a talk on TurboGears. Great stuff. Do you have a tutorial or docs online? Just a request that you could post your slides or audio if you can. What does Yahoo! think about Python? I know at Google, Python is used very heavily. Later, Julian
October 25th, 2005 at 7:36 am
@Julian:
Yep, TurboGears is really neat. I haven’t written anything on it although I will be definitely be putting up the slides for the talk.
In Yahoo!, we use Perl and C++ generally, and continue to use the same because we have a lot of infrastructure built around these two languages.
Regarding Python, I know that a lot of people (at least in Y! Bangalore) use Python for prototyping. I have been pinged by various yahoos asking questions about Python equivalents of Perl statements/modules/etc.
However, it looks like Python is becoming more accepted inside Y!. For example, here’s a recent job listing:
This position was listed under the “Senior Software Engineer - Search Core” section.
October 25th, 2005 at 10:50 am
I saw the list of speakers and went “Holy sh*t!”. Awesome. Hats off to Atul Chitnis (not everyday will you hear that from a Microsoft employee :))
October 25th, 2005 at 6:46 pm
Phew! Tall list this one! Although I have probably met only of the enlisted!
It would be interesting to see Sarath give his demo - cool.
Wish I could be there at Bangalore to attend this event :((
October 25th, 2005 at 8:47 pm
@Sriram: You can say that again
@Ankit: Why can’t you make it?
October 25th, 2005 at 9:22 pm
Because
October 25th, 2005 at 9:23 pm
I saw the list of speakers and went “Holy sh*t!�. Awesome. Hats off to Atul Chitnis (not everyday will you hear that from a Microsoft employee
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Cool! BTW who is Atul Chitnis
October 25th, 2005 at 9:56 pm
@Ankit: Okay, Delhi is quite far off. Anyway, I guess you’ll be coming down here after a couple of years
Read about Atul here. Hint: He’s the administrator/moderator of the Bangalore LUG lists.
October 26th, 2005 at 7:51 am
Anyway, I guess you’ll be coming down here after a couple of years
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October 26th, 2005 at 7:51 am
Impressive biography!
October 26th, 2005 at 8:54 am
@Ankit: I meant after a couple of years, you would be old enough to come on your own.
October 26th, 2005 at 9:08 am
@Ankit: I meant after a couple of years, you would be old enough to come on your own.
Oh Ok!
October 26th, 2005 at 9:10 am
BTW OT but did u suggest WP to AB ?
October 26th, 2005 at 7:03 pm
@ankit: english please is it wordpress to amitabh bacchan?
October 26th, 2005 at 8:08 pm
is it wordpress to amitabh bacchan?
Haha..I deliberately left it for you to figure out. So scratch the head a bit and think puhleeze. It is sorta of a quiz! go figure?
October 27th, 2005 at 11:23 am
I have figured it out.
Now the only missing piece is why you cannot answer a politely worded question, straight.
If it is something personal, which I’m not party to, say so.
There was no need to use the acerbic tone.
October 27th, 2005 at 12:30 pm
I have figured it out.
Now the only missing piece is why you cannot answer a politely worded question, straight.
If it is something personal, which I’m not party to, say so.
There was no need to use the acerbic tone.
C’mon. There was nothing secretive about it! It’s just that I decided to use acronyms for the fun of it - for once stop being paranoid :P!
Actually AB refers to Ashok Banker. I was asking SC [again!] whether he has ever recommended WP to him?
October 27th, 2005 at 12:57 pm
@ankit chill
one more sterling example of why acronyms are bad 
October 27th, 2005 at 1:02 pm
oh ok…actually we have a game in here. Its pretty popular among my circle of friends. We use acronyms to tell about a relevant situation with clues of course and you got to guess… although I can see you guys arent interested! :))