This weekend I’m hanging out on Fosdem which is quite fun, although mainly from a social point of view.
The ADA talks where intresting and I might take a look at the language. I felt they left out a lot during the talks. Which made me a bit confused as to how abstract the language really is. It looks powerful, but also very limiting.
Koen gave an small overview over a migration from Informix to PostgreSQL. This talk was again followed by a intresting talk on how to run ‘software meetings’ in a somewhat centralised way. And currently watched a talk on ext4 which was fun and now watching a FreeBSD performance talk.
Overall I’ve mainly running into familiar faces and enjoying nioce belgian beers in de evening. The talks aren’t bad, but I do see it more as a social event. The network on the otherhand is quite crap, with ports being blocked, accespoints requiring users to press buttons on pages before you get any routing, and just entire parts not working.
On anoter note, the Dutch Perl Workshop is comming up soon. On the 6th of March this year you can spent an entire day following cool perl related talks, talking to fellow perl coders and playing Fluxx. A program isn’t online yet, but it’s bound to be fun anyway.
Ext4 talk at Fosdem 2009
