• New Video! – LSRC 2010 – Glenn Vanderburg – Real Software Engineering – http://odz.mx/79zf5 #

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• I just earned the 35mm Film Pin on @gowalla! http://gowal.la/r/25c4X #
• @mcottmery thanks for the link – LMAO -> and then shuttered for some of the truth of it – http://odz.mx/cKqzr #
• getting ready for #lsrc2010 – starting up in 10-20 minutes #
• @rubiii give it a try now… http://odz.mx/kn4db in reply to rubiii #
• @israelantezana ok link is fixed… in reply to israelantezana #
• @patmaddox – listen to the MP3 see if it is sufficiently loud. The video versions are rendering. http://odz.mx/sX85d #
• @evanphx, @veganstraightedge nice job on la.rb, I'll see you next Tuesday! Laptop isn't powerful enough to edit video => what I'm doing now #
• testing URL shortners – link to @patmaddox's talk -> if the volume is low please let me know – http://Ez.com/89zp #
• @patmaddox ok, I'll listen to it, and ramp up the volume a bit. in reply to patmaddox #
• @patmaddox -> video is up http://odz.mx/y68fB – screwy drop shadow around slides – will re-render soon, let me know what you think. #
• @patmaddox They are uploading now… after upgrading to Windows 7 64-bit, Premiere Pro CS5, and more RAM -> I'm back in production mode. in reply to patmaddox #

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• I checked in at Foxy's Restaurant (206 W Colorado St) on #Yelp http://bit.ly/90T7Ls #
• @wartigger – my apologizes not you how had words about @jeffpatton, instead it should've been @wartiger #
• Some words from @wartigger regarding @jeffpatton presentation "No one wants your stupid process" from #agileroots – http://odz.mx/CmHD7 #
• @trojanchad01 yes I really did mean yellowpages.com aka yp.com in reply to trojanchad01 #
• @grantmichaels Nope I am too, it haunts me, it's my community black eye until I get them done in reply to grantmichaels #
• Congratulations WebYP -> Site looks good! – awesome effort! – checkout the new YELLOWPAGS.COM home page – http://odz.mx/yp #
• @patmaddox – your talk is rendering, should be able to post in the morning (render time pending) and announce. #
• @grantmichaels, @headius – they've gotten back piled, trying to finish them up to help promote jrubyconf this year. #
• @cdwille76 – last tweet was in regards to your comment about @confreaks #
• @cdwillie76 – turns out i over looked the RSS feeds in the new dynamic version of the site, so it will be a bit before agileroots feed works in reply to cdwillie76 #
• a good write up on the Oracle vs. Google situation by @headius – http://odz.mx/orvgo #
• Be sure and check out the RubyWeb Conference at Snowbird on 9/9-9/10 http://odz.mx/DBKsw #
• @cdwillie76 Thanks those should get fixed this evening. in reply to cdwillie76 #
• @cdwillie76 Thanks – will fix rss feeds this evening. in reply to cdwillie76 #
• AT&T Interactive – Corporate Headquarters Glendale, CA, 91203 – YELLOWPAGES.COM – http://t.yp.com/bpg9q #
• @scottedwards200 regarding #lazyweb, most people will do an @ response if if they are actually replying to you. in reply to scottedwards200 #
• #lazyweb, I need to talk with someone who has experience with data recovery services to get data off of a failed hard disk. #

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So I final wrote a long overdue update about Confreaks, its available on the confreaks blog.

http://odz.mx/61Pb1

I’ll be writing more about Confreaks, the equipment I’m using now, and the revised process I’m using these days.

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• @objo hey Joe! Welcome to CA, looking forward to chatting tomorrow in reply to objo #
• I forgot to mention @tenderlove s blog post about Ruby 1.9 Code Coverage – awesome! – http://odz.mx/GcBcS #

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• Despite FCC “Scare Tactics,” Researcher Demos AT&T Eavesdropping « The Firewall – Forbes.com http://odz.mx/z7d1F #

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• I'm now the Duke of Riptide BBQ on #Yelp! http://bit.ly/aGFpWI #

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• I'm now the Duke of Surfrider Oceanfront Resort & Restaurant on #Yelp! http://bit.ly/bicUtH #
• I checked in at Voodoo Doughnut Too (1501 NE Davis St) on #Yelp http://bit.ly/av24B6 #
• @vborja not sure if I responded to your tweet or not, yes olabini's talk will be posted follow @confreaks for announcements, #emerginglangs in reply to vborja #
• found a camera while cleaning up and tearing down after #emerginglangs, #oscon, message me if you think it is yours #
• There is a human comprehension zone and there is no reason to step outside of it. – Jonathan Shapiro #emerginglangs #oscon #
• @techmatchmaker – following complete in reply to techmatchmaker #
• Here is a link to Kodu if you're interested in learning more. http://odz.mx/p71Lr #emerginglangs #
• Really fun presentation on Kodu this morning #emerginglangs #oscon – Kids programming introduction language #
• @headius presenting on Mirah at #emerginglangs #
• OH: the f in F# stands for facemelting – Joe Pamer #emerginglangs at #oscon #
• @mbleigh I'm in F150 today and tomorrow, @headius is also here, as is @olabini and @technomancy are around here also. #
• check out Frink at http://odz.mx/H80Z2 #emerginglangs #elcamp #oscon #
• Enjoyed @aeliasen presentation on Frink at #emerginglangs #elcamp at #oscon. He debunked a myth or two, and validated others. #
• @vborja yes, @confreaks will be publishing all the talks from #emerginglangs (2-4 weeks from now) in reply to vborja #
• @olabini presenting on Ioke and Seph – #OSCON #
• At OSCON recording the Emerging Languages Camp -> Rob Pike presenting on Go #
• Speaker schedule for the Ruby Hoedown -> http://odz.mx/1Xm1r from @jm, check it out and help boost the HN score. #
• anyone else at OSCON? If so I'll be in the Emerging Languages Camp room the tomorrow and Thursday, drop by and say hello. #
• On plane to PDX for Emerging Languages Camp! #
• @jdunphy – woohoo! – good run – I'm trying to work my way into shape to do the RubyConf 5k in November, assuming there will be one. in reply to jdunphy #
• can't update my bio on twitter to save my life – all other functionality here seems to work @twitter ? #
• Last day in the office this week before heading to OSCON/Emerging Languages Camp tomorrow, ping me if you want to meet up at OSCON. #

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After Emerging Languages camp, I consolidated all of the audio, video, and slide capture data to a single source, and then enjoyed dinner and got a good nights sleep.

This morning after fighting some fires with engineering vs. operations issues, my wife and I are off down the coast.  At the moment I’m sitting at Hungry Tiger Too’s a vegan restaurant/dive bar in Portland, waiting for breakfast, had an espresso next door at Three Friends Coffee Shop, and will stop by Voodoo donuts too for some travel snacks. 

I enjoyed blogging in detail from Emerging Languages, so figure while I’m out and about over the next week, I’m going to try and put some more thoughts up here.  Pending posts:

• confreaks equipment setup and conference recording
• thoughts on odz.mx – a side project
• how the revamp of confreaks web-site is going

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Back at Emerging Languages Camp for day 2, the presentations got off to a great start:

• Matt MacLauren presented on Kodu a visual programming language designed to allow children to learn critical thinking.  The language exposes a 3d graphical user interface that allows characters to interact and respond to emotions and the environment.
• Rich Hickey presented on Clojure and a new potential feature tentatively titled Pods they are similar to transients only better.
• Mark Miller presented on why E is merging with Javascript and gave a brief history of programming on the web.  E is a secure distributed object oriented language with the intent of improving web programming.  Caja is an object capable safe subject of javascript, also the spanish word for box or vault.  Lessons learned from Caja were presented to the ECMA script committee.
• Christopher Bertels presented on Fancy.  Fancy is a dynamic, object-oriented programming language heavily inspired by Smalltalk, Ruby and Erlang. It will support dynamic code evaluation (as in Ruby & Smalltalk), concurrency via the actor-model and many more features yet to be implemented.
• Jonathan Shapiro presented on BitC.  BitC’s domain is critical system code; Saftey; Zero runtime footprint, it has a 7,o00 line microkernel that has been verified.
• Steve Folta presented on Trylon.  It appears to be a cross between Python and Smalltalk.
• Amos Wenger presented on ooc – a hybrid language experiment.
• Jonathan Edwards presented on Coherence and declarative programming, the future of programming and in order to do so started with where we are today.  We are effectively still writing assembly because the program is required to control the order that we read and write, from and too memory.

Instead of taking an afternoon break that was scheduled for 90 minutes, the camp has decided to jam in four more presentations:

• Bob Nystrom presented on Finch, the language most successful at meetings its goal at the camp.  He designed and started implement it as an exercise to show his work and get a new job.  He succeeded. 100% of goals achieved.
• Andrew Fischer presented on a live coding language called Circa.  It’s goals are immediate feedback, intuitive use, Fun, ability to maintain flow, and provide good tool support.
• Matt Youell presented on Wheeler.  Wheeler has the odd property that its fundamental abstraction is state.  Wheeler is about categories it does not have a type system.  Context drives behavior.
• Alexander Fritze presented on Stratified Javascript.  A cross-browser extension to JavaScript providing advanced concurrency abstractions. It’s implemented in JS itself; runs in unmodified IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari. Does not require any native browser support.
• Slava Petsov presented on Factor.  The implementation is fully compiled for performance, while still supporting interactive development. Factor applications are portable between all common platforms. Factor can deploy stand-alone applications on all platforms.
• Walter Bright presented on the D programming language.  It is a systems and applications programming language.  It does native code generation, static typing and an extremely fast compiler.  It is a big language, covering many paradigms including: Imperative; Metal; Object-oriented; RAII; Functional; Generic; Generative; Concurrent.
• Tom Van Cutsem from the Software Languages Lab at Vrije Universiteit Brussel presented on AmbientTalk.  AmbientTalk is a distributed language designed specifically around ad hoc networks and mobile devices.

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