In addition to attending WebVisions July 20/21, I will also be attending the O’Reilly Open Source Convention on July 26-28. Although WebVisions will be enjoyable and useful, OSCON is the largest open source convention in the US. This is where the tech big-wigs come to speak and teach, and boy am I excited for it!

Last year I noted “My dream job is to be able to attend technology conferences like the recent OSCON here in Portland”. I will be a very busy bee as I’ll get there early and be out fairly late, but it’s going to be worth it!

SESSIONS – WEDNESDAY

Wednesday 8:45AM – 9:00AM Welcome

Wednesday 9:00AM – 9:15AM O’Reilly Radar

Wednesday 9:15AM – 9:30AM School of Rock

Wednesday 9:30AM – 9:45AM Trying to Suck Less: Making Web 2.0 Mean Something

Wednesday 9:45AM – 10:00AM Keynote

Wednesday 10:00AM – 10:15AM Q&A

Wednesday 10:45 – 11:30 Handling Cross-domain XMLHttpRequests

Wednesday 11:35 – 12:20 Ajax Optimization Techniques: Working with Large Ajax Applications

Wednesday 1:45 – 2:30 Prototype

Wednesday 2:35PM – 3:20PM Cross-site Ajax: Challenges and Techniques for Building Rich Web 2.0 Mashups

Wednesday 4:30 – 5:15 The Truth about XSS

Wednesday 5:20 – 6:05 PDO: PHP Data Objects

Wednesday 6:05 – 7:30PM Exhibit Hall Reception

Wednesday 7:30PM – 8:30PM PHP Security Hoedown

Wednesday 8:30PM – 9:30PM What is Python?

SESSIONS – THURSDAY

Thursday 8:45AM – 9:00AM The Zen of Free

Thursday 9:00AM – 9:15AM “Opening” the Possibilities: APIs and Open Source Code

Thursday 9:15AM – 9:30AM 25 years of the IBM PC

Thursday 9:30AM – 9:45AM Developers: You’ve Got the Power – Now What?

Thursday 9:45AM – 10:00AM Making Tech Documentaries: How and Why

Thursday 10:00AM – 10:15AM Q & A

Thursday 10:45 – 11:30 PHP and Web 2.0

Thursday 11:35AM – 12:20PM Microsummaries in Firefox and on the Web

Thursday 1:45 – 2:30 PHP Security Testing

Thursday 2:35 – 3:20 Writing Maintainable Code with PHP

Thursday 4:30 – 5:15 Understanding ZFramework

Thursday 5:20 – 6:05 The PHP Collaboration Project: Targeting PHP at Modern Web Applications

Thursday 7:00PM – 8:00PM Ubuntu

Thursday 8:00pm – 10:00pm Firefox Flicks Screening

SESSIONS – FRIDAY

Friday 8:45AM – 9:00AM 5 A Day

Friday 9:00AM – 9:15AM Keynote

Friday 9:15AM – 9:30AM Keynote

Friday 9:30AM – 9:45AM The Washington Bridge and Other Public Structures

Friday 9:45AM – 10:15AM openTalk 2.0: Maximizing Non-stakeholder Buy-in by Leveraging Depatented Generic Information Transfer Protocols

Friday 10:45 – 11:30 10 Tools Developers Need Today

Friday 11:35 – 12:20 Practical PHP Patterns

Friday 12:30PM – 1:00PM Closing Session