Archive for September, 2005
Day 2 of FOSSSL 05 Conf.
Day 2 of FOSSSL started off with David Axmark addressing on Past, Present and Future of MySQL. Bruce Momjian, Rasmus Lerdorf and Sam Ruby presented their talks today. Rasmus did somewhat an overview of PHP in a quick one hour which covered more of what he did on the Tutorial session the other day. He [...]
All at Once
It was awesome to see all of the drivers and the creators of OpenSource at one place on the first day of FOSSSL 05 Conference. Michael Tiemann (President of OSI and Father of G++), David Axmark (Co Founder of MySQL), Martin Michlmayr (Former Debian Project Leader), Bruce Momjian (Lead contributer to PostgreSQL), Greg Stein (Chairman, [...]
Father of PHP @ FOSSSL 05
The first day of FOSSSL 05 kicked off with the PHP5 Tutorial by Rasmus Lerdorf AKA the father of PHP. I was so excited to see him and was very quietly and keenly listening to his session he did on PHP5. He was going through all the new stuff in PHP5 and it was [...]
Beyond our control
The weather here in Sri Lanka has changed quite dramatically as its raining quite heavily here and there and the wind is quite strong and the forecast for the next five days suggest that it will continue to rain. This is opposite for what we experienced in the past few weeks as it was very [...]
The decider
The decider of the Ashes Series will kick off on the 8th of Sepetember 2005 at the Oval. This test will be an important one for both teams as Aussies need to win this one to draw the series and retain the Ashes for the 9th time in a row. While a draw for the [...]
National FOSS Week 05
5th to 11th September 2005 will be the National Free And Open Source Software Week here in Sri Lanka. There are loads of events lined up on this upcoming week. FOSSSL seems to be the highlight among the other events as top names of Open Souce will be part of it.
