Here are some more photos from the last day of OSCON.
Dave Bradley was one of the original engineers who worked on the IBM PC. He invented CTRL-ALT-DEL, and showed us the 8088 assembly language listing for that code!
Carl Malamud gave an inspiring presentation on how to hack the government (politically, that is). He talked about how to use the lens of the blogosphere to shine the spotlight on politicians to inprove transparency in the political process. Lots of things to think about, even for this Canadian.
The morning keynotes closed with Damian Conway’s brilliant presentation:
It was a presentation about cx*ap:
The wit, puns, and evil genius that he exhibited has to be seen in person. He made me see the kittens!
It was a lot of fun sitting in on Alex Martelli’s excellent session on how to be a technical manager. His focus on simplicity makes me wonder if Google spreadsheet was invented to help Google technical managers do their job!
Update:* the shots of Damian’s slides are courtesy of Ugo Cei
