Open Source Developers' Conference - Melbourne

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Open Source Developers' Conference



Melbourne, December 5th-8th 2006

The Open Source Developers' Conference is a conference designed for developers, by developers. It covers numerous programming languages across a range of operating systems. Talks vary from introductory pieces through to the deeply technical. With three talks on at any time, spanning over three days; there is bound to be something of interest to any developer.



The Conference Program is now available. Unfortunately registration is now CLOSED! You can see the program here: [url="http://osdc2006.cgpublisher.com/program.html"]http://osdc2006.cgpublisher.com/program.html[/url]



The conference is being held at the Caulfield campus of Monash University, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, Victoria.



List of Topics

• Free software - A look back, a look ahead
  
  
• What's New In Python: 2006 Edition
  
  
• Perl White Magic: Special Variables and Command Line Switches
  
  
• Working with PHP and Oracle
  
  
• A Rails/Django Comparison
  
  
• Obfuscation, Golfing and Secret Operators in Perl
  
  
• Implementation of Queuing Disciplines on Linux made Easy
  
  
• Ctypes. ctypes run!
  
  
• Moose - it's the new Camel!
  
  
• Enterprise PHP
  
  
• What's Old Is New Again
  
  
• use feature: An overview of new language constructs in Perl 5.10
  
  
• Conferences For Beginners
  
  
• RESTful Software Development and Maintenance
  
  
• Nothing can possibly go wrong
  
  
• Testing Performance Mail Relay
  
  
• Web Application Security - Tools, Techniques, Tips and Tricks
  
  
• Wile Coyote's Toolbox: The Acme Namespace - 30 minutes, 90 modules
  
  
• Data Warehousing HOWTO
  
  
• APhPLIX, Traditional GUI in Web Applications: "GUI Classique en Applications Web"
  
  
• Python in Mozilla
  
  
• Publishing a Perl-based app to SourceForge and CPAN
  
  
• Object Pascal on linux isn't dead.
  
  
• The Planet Feed Reader: Better Living Through Gravity
  
  
• Open Source Glue: Using Open Source to Glue Proprietary Systems to Business Needs
  
  
• The Da Vinci Codebase
  
  
• Open Source Synchrotron
  
  
• J2EE and Open Source Innovation: The Relationship between Open Source and Standards
  
  
• Doing stupid things with XSLT
  
  
• A Database Money Can't Buy
  
  
• Testing non-perl apps with TAP
  
  
• Shiny, Pretty Things
  
  
• PHP 5 and IBM DB2
  
  
• The Database - slave or master? Tangram and DBIx::Class
  
  
• Development of Mono Applications with Agile Languages
  
  
• Apache Configuration Primer
  
  
• Retooling the World Wide Web for Its Original Purpose: Modernising the Web for University Research
  
  
• MontyLingua (and ConceptNet) to simplify natural text processing tasks
  
  
• Open Source on the Scientific Bleeding Edge
  
  
• Square pegs and round holes: A reflection on Class:BI
  
  
• Automatic Text Generation and Weather Forecasting
  
  
• System Administration Skills for Developers
  
  
• Mono - Migrating from Windows to Linux
  
  
• Accessing Relational Databases with Python
  
  
• Team Monash: Outwit, Outplay, Outlast
  
  
• An Uppity Phone System: New opportunities from VoIP and OSS telephony
  
  
• Building Audio Applications With GStreamer
  
  
• The Pillars of FOSS: Looking at the whole FOSS picture
  
  
• The Portable Image Testing Architecture: Rediculously Large Scale Testing
  
  
• Building With a Version Control Audit Trail
  
  
• Understanding Greediness: Improve Your Understanding of Reg-exes
  
  
• Programs are Just Words: Designing Domain Specific Languages in Ruby
  
  
• Architecture with Archetypes: The seafelt Reporting Framework for Zope/Plone
  
  
• Making Printed and Online Reports Look Great With JasperReports
  
  
• Human Interfaces for Geeks
  
  
• Career Development for Developer Geeks
  
  
• Managing Distributed Version Control
  
  
• Usability, user-centered design (UCD) and FOSS
  
  
• The DigitalFriend: the First End-User Oriented Multi-Agent System
  
  
• Coding in a Distributed Team: Testing, Reviewing, Sharing and Merging Code Without Going Crazy
  
  
• ODF: Our Document Future: OpenDocument Format and Digital Preservation
  
  
• Better Software Through Test Coverage: A Practical Guide To Making Your Test Suite Suck Less
  
  

For more information go to: [url="http://www.osdc.com.au/"]http://www.osdc.com.au/[/url]