Open Source Convention OSCON 2014
It was great to be back in Portland to attend OSCON again and again was inspired by a community of enthusiastic people that truly love open source software. People travel from all over the US and overseas for the event. All with different careers but often using the same tools and always a love for sharing software and experiences.
Topics covered over the five days ranged from web front and backend technologies as well as compiled languages to philosophical talks on what is open source and open source communities and hardware such as RaspberryPi, Arduino wireless scanning devices.
I focused my time on technologies that I already use or intend to use for my work as a web developer. These included AngularJS, PHP and Golang. As all technologies are evolving so quickly it can be hard to keep up so it helps to be at a convention where you are immersed in it all. It was great to hear that Golang and AngularJS really are being embraced in the commercial world as leading technologies.
I was reminded how I want to adapt some hardware into the work I do. Either Arduino, Raspberry Pi and quadcopters. There is so much happening in to tech world and I just want to get immersed in it all.
See you next time, Portland.