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Larry Wall, father of perl, likens the history of perl to raising a child. In this live interview at OSCON 2008, Larry talks about perl's rebellious teen years, the role of the benevolent dictator, and dual licensing as a quantum physics phenomenon.
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Gerald "Jerry" Carter, author of O'Reilly's Using Samba and LDAP System Administration talks about the current state of open source and modern network administration.
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Jim Zemlin, the executive director of the Linux Foundation, talked with O'Reilly News at OSCON, the O'Reilly open source convention. He demystifies the role that the Linux Foundation plays in helping to promote Linux use, provide legal defense, and broker cooperative work between Linux related projects.
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John Lam, who heads the Iron Ruby effort at Microsoft, stopped by to tell O'Reilly News all the exciting work going on with dynamic languages at Redmond. John spent some time discussing what makes a language dynamic, what the benefits of dynamic languages are, and how Microsoft is trying to leverage the power of lanaguages such as Ruby inside their CLR framework.
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O'Reilly blogger Nathan Torkington spent some time with James Turner of O'Reilly News at OSCON 2008 in Portland. He shares some of the trends and technologies that he thinks will play a big role in the near future, including open source biology and the rise of mobile computing.
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Anthony Baxter, one of the lead engineers working on Google's new App Engine, spent some time at O'Reilly's source convention, OSCON, talking about the features that App Engine can offer to developers.
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Nice parody of the Barnaked Ladies song "Life in a Nutshell", performed live by Pudge at the end of the "Perl Lightning Talks" at OSCON 2007 in Portland, Oregon. The studio version can be found on youtube as well.
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It's been 10 years since O'Reilly held the first OSCON. At the latest edition of O'Reilly's open source convention, Tim O'Reilly sat down with O'Reilly News to talk about the anniversary. He also reflected on how open source has changed in that period, whether Web 2.0 (a term he helped coin) has met his expectations, and how the nature of technical book publishing has changed.
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Pia Waugh, President of Software Freedom International sat down at O'Reilly's open source convention, OSCON, to talk about some of her interests. These include how women are entering the computer field worldwide and her work getting laptops into the hands of children across Australia and the Pacific islands.
From the show floor at OSCON 2008 in Portland, OR, SnapLogic CEO Chris Marino discusses the company's latest news: a solution pack that dramatically simplifies data integration with SugarCRM and Sugar On Demand.
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This is a 3-D printer being demonstrated by Vik Olliver at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, OR. More info at: http://reprap.org/bi n/view/Main/WebHome
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