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Fri, 27 Jan 2006
More trench notes. - 11:12
Last night we had a rather cool Professional Delegates Networking Session,
with thanks to IBM and HP for the beers and food, at the Larnarch Castle in
Dunedin, neat location. This morning the keynote was from Damian Conway
talking about lessons learnt (technical and social) from the perl 6
development process. Next I went to Chris Yeoh's talk about Managing Memory in
variable sized chunks. Then I got to see the cool new stuff Wayne Piekarski
has done in the augmented reality gear and software he has been presenting
about since lca began in 1999.
I have uploaded some notes, not much from Chris' talk but a but from the rest.
Wayne has managed to make the tinmith system a lot smaller now, to the extent
the entire system fits in a bum bag sized case with some batteries mounted on
the hips (2 8 Amp Hour batteries, I suspect if he used NiMH 4.4 Amp Hour cells
he could get the battery packs even smaller and lighter too).
Damian Conway rocked seriously, a great speaker and I am a perl fan so it was
fun to see.
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