12 Month Anniversary

Yesterday was the 12 month anniversary of starting my photoblog - Learning 2 See - an attempt at posting one image per week day, in some sort of thematic grouping.

What it's shown me is that producing quality shots on a regular basis is really difficult. It's an incredible time sink. To succeed, you need to be scheduling photo shoots on a regular basis, and being prepared to take enough shots to throw away 90% of them. In my attempt to keep the commitment of a shot per weekday, I've had to use quite a few shots that I'm not happy with - whether it be the composition, or the technical execution that has failed - just so I could have something to post. But out of the 218 or so shots posted so far, there's some captures that I think have worked.

So has it been worthwhile?

Absolutely!

I've learnt a lot, and I think I'm a better photographer today than what I was 12 months ago. But as per usual with any field of endeavour, the more you learn, the more you realise how much you don't know. I've got a long way to go, but I'm glad about the journey so far.

photos | 23 Sep 2009 | #

linux.conf.au 2010 Conference Program now available

Cool!

The team in Wellington organising linux.conf.au 2010 have released the conference program. This is shaping up to be an excellent 6 days in January! :-)

Just some of the things that stand out immediately to me are:

• Free the Cloud Miniconf led by Evan Prodromou (the identica guy)
• Wave Developers Miniconf led by Shane Stephens
• Introduction to game programming by Richard Jones
• A whole bunch of talks about HTML5
• subunit: Testing across boundaries for fun and profit by Robert Collins
• Git Wrangling - Advanced Tips and Tricks by Scott Chacon
• The Hydras: Improving the C/C++ Development Experience via GCC Static Analysis Plugins by Taras Glek
• PostgreSQL Development Today by Josh Berkus
• Simplicity Through Optimization by Paul McKenney
• Using Launchpad for Code Reviews by Tim Penhey
• Using Functional Programming Techniques In Your Favourite Language by Malcolm Tredinnick
• Patent defence for free software by Andrew Tridgell
• FOSS Fun With A Wiimote by Rusty Russell
• Patchwork: pursuing productive project participation by Jeremy Kerr

I love this time of year - knowing what the conference will contain, but still a few months of waiting in anticipation. So Wellington team, when are registrations going to open? It's time to book flights for the week starting January 18, 2010 :-)

tech/linux-australia/lca2010 | 17 Sep 2009 | #