OSCON Day 1
At the moment I am sitting on my fifth plain in three days. The nice thing about all the flying recently is it has given me plenty of time to look over my OSCON presentation. The down side is I am starting to get really sick of all these damn pretzels. It was a fun weekend at Jon and Jen’s wedding and though the Tech crew numbers where small those of us there had a good time. I fly back to Detroit where I plan to crash right at the airport and I fly out of DTW at 6 AM Monday morning. I am somewhat bummed that I never was able to catch up with Aaron Morison while I was in MSP. I am also a little bummed that I did not have time to go out at all while I was in Minneapolis. I will just have to plan another trip back to party at the bars and visit some of my other friends.
I got into Portland at 10am and went right from the airport to the hotel. Checked in and got quickly to the convention center. I got checked in with Vee and was ready to go. It was at this time the afternoon session was just starting.
My first afternoon here I decided to take in some Perl and went to Pratical mod_perl 2 presented by Stat Bekman. Now I thought I had a pretty good handle on the way apache did this but Stas blew me away! Now I have an idea how mod_perl is able to do what it does and have a much better idea how things happen in apache. His presentation started out a little slow but once it got going I wonderd where the heck the 3 hours went!