Bits and pieces from around the conference.
Conferences are a great opportunity to meet people with diverse interests and to pick up links to websites with all sorts of things to explore further.
OpenMicroscopy (aside)
I had an interesting chat with a chap from OpenMicroscopy an open source, open service for sharing raw scientific data from microscopes. A very cool project attempting to do something very academic.
There were also some Records of Scotland people there. I wonder if they are still doing stuff with MongoDB I haven’t see a job ad about that of late.
Instant Gratification Monkey
I can’t even remember which talk he came up in – but Google him if you like funny self-help books. My 18 year old son knew all about it – it’s a thing, apparently.
I suspect the IGM of eating people’s cheese when they can’t find it because it has been moved.
Active and Passive Eh?
I made a note which seemed very important and profound – but a bit like writing down a dream it seems a bit sparse now… can any body help? (it might be to do with update & failover)
“Active active app… Active passive db” is what it says – what does it mean?
Mousache seemed to be a popular templating language
Moustache templating managed a couple of passing quick mentions – (personally Handlebars has more going for it, or even EJS(embedded Javascript) as these have as simple a syntax as Moustache for doing the easy things but can do so much more). I like EJS because in a NodeJS and web-app world it keeps the number of languages to a minimum. I’d rather have one language to be an expert in than four to be mediocre at.
Additional resources…
http://www.oreilly.com/security/free/http://www.oreilly.com/webops/free/
A Classic Quote
For everyone that likes Microsoft Windows: “Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.” Henry Spencer