I’ll be down London way on Monday 25th July giving a talk about Ceph at the London Devops meetup. Come along and learn about petabyte scale distributed filesystems, or just come along and drink beer with us!
Tag: talk
My NWRUG Ferret Talk
I did a short talk on Ferret, the Ruby “Information Retreival Library”, at the North West Ruby Users Group last Thursday. We had a bit of a theme too, with Will Jessop speaking about Sphinx and Asa Calow speaking about Solr.
I got to have a bit of a nosey around the Manchester BBC building too – though I was worried I’d open the wrong door and end up on TV. Didn’t fancy having to apologise to Jeremy Paxman.
Brightbox also sponsored some pizza, and gave away t-shirts and stickers like candy (there was no candy though).
My slides are available here, and contain a little example file system indexer. I made my slides with webby and S6 if you’re interested.
Speaking at the Manchester Free Software Meeting
I’m speaking next Tuesday (15th April 2008) at the Manchester Free Software about my geeky web comic, Everybody Loves Eric Raymond. Apparently people are still interested in it even though it hasn’t been updated since December! Hooray!
It’ll be a bit of a mix of the two talks I’ve done before on ELER, so some stuff about the history of the comic and how I make it, plus some ranting about free software, free markets and leaders.
I was asked by the then organiser (and my friend) Matt Lee who was then extraordinarily renditioned to North America with his new wife, leaving the new organisers to pick up the pieces. Luckily most of the pieces were found and it’s all go, though I do now appear to be talking about my new Rails hosting company too and my name is spelt differently. If there is time, I’ll talk about some of the stuff we’re doing at Brightbox with Free Software.
Talk starts at 7pm at the Manchester DDA. More details on the Manchester Free Software website.
North West Ruby User Group Talk: Building Brightbox
Oh, btw, I’m doing a talk tomorrow at the North West Ruby User Group in Manchester about how we do the Ruby on Rails hosting at Brightbox.
I’ll be talking about SANs, Centos, Ubuntu, Xen, Apache, Lighty, NGINX, MySQL and other goodies. Heck, I might even mention Ruby, which would be nice considering it’s a Ruby user group.
My business partner Jeremy will be nattering about the business side and various other things.
Update: A couple of photos here and here.
Leeds Ruby on Rails Talk
I’m talking about Ruby on Rails at the West Yorkshire Linux User Group on Monday 11th June 2007. I’ll be covering what Rail is, how it works, and how you use it. Starts at 1900hrs at the E.C Stoner (snigger) Building at the University of Leeds. There follows a talk about Sun’s ZFS file system by Tom Hall, then we retire to The Victoria Hotel pub for some real ale and whatnot.
I’ll be the tall one with the curly hair… stood at the front… talking about Ruby on Rails.
Directions and stuff to be found on the WYLUG website.