Rodger Donaldson

Rodger Donaldson

Kiwicon 9 Day 1 Morning

So another year, and I'm back for another Kiwicon. If I have any misgivings about Kiwicon, it's that I didn't start going earlier in its existence. How,

Being Kind to Speakers

The first time I did an LCA talk I spent the week before having chest pains to the point I thought I was going to have a heart attack. I was nervously scratching

La Dune

I was a little mislead by the synopsis for La Dune; it sounded like a slightly unorthodox police proceedural. Which, in the narrowest possible sense it is, but that's like handing

linux.conf.au 2015 Day 4

Keynotes Cooper Lees - Facebook * Facebook open source all their infrastructure code (btrfs, HHVM, etc, etc). * 100s of GitHub reports, 1000s of contributers. * 10x growth in pull requests in the last 2 years.

linux.conf.au 2015 Day 3

Keynote - Bob Young * Don't interrupt a good story with the facts (as long as they're within an order of magnitude of reality). * Used the M word. * "I