100 Open Source Presentations...

100 Open Source Presentations From OSCon

Very interesting to see what's new out there! I particularly liked the Developers vs Designers pdf. Way back in the late 90's when Java was "the next big thing" I really thought it would be. I was amazed at what a wonderful language it was (is). While at News Interactive we wrote some internal apps in it, but were unable to find a way to integrate it into the web sites, since Java applets were just not what the users wanted to deal with. With that experience, and being fortunate enough to attend the www7 conference in Brisbane, Australia in 1998 I thought that Java would eventually adapt itself enough to be useful in the web. From what Developers vs Designers pdf talks about, I think the future is once again rosy.

Still.. love PHP now!

I loved the How to be Normal pdf, simply because it explains in a simple, understandable and concise way what I've been trying to show people who _don't_ choose to normalize their database structure since the start! Over the past week I've been debating how best to cover this in the book I've been writing, and I think (without so much of the technical aspects) this will help me get my thoughts together .