OSCON 2006 Day One The first two days of OSCON are dedicated to long tutorial sessions lasting at half a day each. Even though it's total information overload, there's definitely a less wacky atmosphere than later in the week, and less topics covered per-hour.

I checked out Javascript Bootcamp. Amy Hoy gave a super comprehensive overview of Javascript. It wasn't so much a tutorial on how to construct Javascript, but more of a deconstruction that catogorized almost any Javascript part you could think of. Her slides will be on her blog at some point. There was a part of me that would have dug it if she "tied it all together" in a different way, but she was extremely familiar with Javascript, and great at relating it to other languages. So it was cool get such specific definitions of everything.

Also: props to Amy for great design on her slides. Everything... from the font size, to the colors, made them the easiest to read slides I've seen so far at this conference.

The other tutorial from Day One I checked out was Damian Conway's Mastering Vim. Damian is a very engaging speaker, so any talk by him is going to be fun. But he gave a great "tricks" style talk about vim which really spoke to how people use editors, instead of just an item-by-item list. For now slides don't seem to be digitally available :(

TECHNORATI TAGS: oscon, oscon2006, javascript, conference, Amy Hoy, Damian Conway  ¶ 3:26 PM