Ubuntu Live and OSCON were awesome. Eric and I got a bunch of good hacking done during the sessions. I think the most interesting discussions there were those on Intel’s new Threading Building Blocks. It doesn’t seem that innovative, it seems more like a microthreading system. However, they put a lot of smarts in the scheduler I guess. I also bought an O’Reilly book on the subject, and I hope to get around to reading it soon.
After OSCON, I flew out to the University of Minnesota for the OpenNMS DevJam. That bridge thats all over CNN collapsed while we were there. Lots of excitement. All of the OpenNMS team is awesome, and I owe a really big thank you to The OpenNMS Group for inviting me. Lots of work got done, and I can’t wait for the REST api to get into production. I started hacking a XUL gui, but didn’t get that far. I really hope Mozilla doesn’t abandon pyxpcom in favor of this ironpython/ironruby bytecode converter they have planned.
My new car has finally arrived! I’ve been without a vehicle since January.
/nick vw^H^bmwdude