Older blog entries for lukeh (starting at number 23)

Is there a copy of On The Road on every San Francisco bookshelf, or have I just a very small sample size?

Well, so far I haven't seen that much of WWDC, but that should change today. Yesterday I checked out the Java on MacOS X seminar, they showed a cool demo of a Swing applet automagically adopting the MacOS X look and feel. The other cool thing is that the place is "wirelessed" for AirPort, so there are people sitting around with the wireless-enabled PowerBooks and iBooks checking their mail and doubtless doing real work. Great idea, particularly given the contention for terminals in the Internet caf (when they opened the doors yesterday, it was like a bunch of schoolkids being let out early...).

Yesterday I met with a fellow Aussie from VA Linux to check out their campus and meet some people (Jeremy Allison, sadly, wasn't in). We then drove up to the city, where Adam had tickets to see The The (but not for me; and I wasn't going to pay the $90 people were scalping them for!). Instead, I hooked up with my former boss from Verve, Inc (formerly Xedoc). It is an indictment of the employment situation here when the first thing one of my friend's colleagues asked upon talking to him on his cellphone was "so, you had dinner with this guy... are we hiring him?".

Stayed in the city, caught the Caltrain up this morning. A few interesting, technical sessions on MacOS X today, plus the Darwin BOF, plus dinner with HP LDAP folk.

Got to WWDC today; the plane (from LA to San Francisco) was delayed of course, and by the time I arrived at SFO, caught the bus to San Jose airport, got a cab to the convention center, etc, I managed to just catch the last half hour of the Open Source presentation. It looked interesting though, and although I am very much jet lagged (having been up for 24 hours) it's exciting. I've never really been to one of these sorts of conferences before, unless you count MacWorld in 1998. Everyone is wearing WWDC badges and Apple T-shirts; it's fun to see some people I haven't seen since I worked at Apple and some other NeXT developers that I hadn't otherwise met... more later, off to see the Apple Masters session now (if I stay awake!).

Tomorrow brings more sessions and BALUG.

Posted nss_ldap-109. See the ChangeLog for details.

Time-capsule: DataServe. Enjoy, and remember, don't take it too seriously!

I've been working on collecting some important historical documents pertaining to my interest in computing (as well as those of several of my peers, including pjf). Stay tuned for the time-capsule's URL.

Been playing with xmlterm in Mozilla. Way, way, cool, it seems to me to be the logical progression from xterm and friends. Time to write xldapsearch that will do the Right Thing (tm) with jpegPhoto, labeledURI, and other such useful attributes.

Not much else is news: just been organizing things for the WWDC trip and doing some practice for some forthcoming gigs; next week brings The Lovers, and Rufus Stone at Bennetts Lane.

Lkcl is in Canberra at the mo', on his way to the CIFS conference, so perhaps we will get to meet. I would like this very much, we've known each other on email for some time, and it would be exciting to put a face to the name. Besides, Luke has been dropping some strange hints about some LDAP stuff... we'll see, anyway.

Well, organized accommodation fairly close to the San Jose Convention Center, which is good. I read on Apple's website that Herbie Hancock is giving a presentation on the Monday!

Booked an airfare to San Jose today. I'm planning on going for a week for Apple's World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC), and to catch up with some of my friends at TurboLinux and HP. Should be fun, still got to organize accommodation though.

pam_ldap-51 includes some more patches by Scott Balneaves (thanks, Scott!) to handle expiry of shadowed users correctly and fix a few other bugs to do with changing passwords.