Tag: talk

Video and slides from the Google talk

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I’m a little slow at posting this, because I’ve been really busy. Google had the video of the MythTV talk online a day after the talk, which was nice. I haven’t watched it myself, but hopefully it turned out ok. The talk got a little exciting when I had to reboot one of the machines…

MythTV talk at Google

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I’m giving a MythTV talk at Google in the next week (although I can’t find it on the events calendar at the moment, I’ll update this post when I do) so I’ve been playing with MythTV 0.21 a little more than I have in the past. Its pretty cool. I’m still writing the talk, so…

A MythTV Jabber bot

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While I love my wife and kids to distraction, the distraction bit is real. Then again, I’m sure they have a counter argument that I tend to end up deep in thought, and which point you could probably push me off my chair and I wouldn’t notice. Anyway, that’s mostly beside the point. What is…

MySQL Tech Talks

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Three intrepid MySQLers came to Google after the user conference to give internal tech talks. They were kind enough to agree to us hosting them for other people to see. The first two are up, so I’ll mention those now, and put a link to the last one when it’s available… Click on the thumbnail…

Twisted Python and Jabber SSL

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Ok, so I thought it would be cool to be able to send Google Talk messages to my MythTV box. Can’t be too hard to write a twisted python jabber client can it? Well, after an hour of surfing, I give up. I have the simple jabber client example, but it totally doesn’t work with…

Seth Godin at Google

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A while ago I mentioned attending a talk by Seth Godin at Google. I am delighted to notice that the talk is now available online via the selection of Google tech talks now available online. It’s also interesting that this collection has grown a lot since last time I looked, so it’s worth keeping an…