The lightning talks were very fast paced (5 minutes) so I only jolted down some project names I want to check out and interesting tidbits, and missed speaker names just about all the time. Sorry!

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2 years and a half ago, SourceForge was all PHP except for one little Python service. SourceForge was originally written in 1999, when Python wasn't so great at the web. After 10 years though, it all started to atrophy.

So SourceForge decided to do a …

The origami workshop in Tog on Friday night was a success \o/

Turn-out was great despite a couple of late cancellations, another Tog member with strong origami powers stopped by to help out if needed, and everybody seemed to be having fun, and I think everybody learnt something new -- I …

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This talk was about non-relational databases. I didn't take a lot of notes :o) The most important morale is probably: don't keep the mind altering substances and the tools in the same shed.

With 2 decades of relational databases, they are pretty robust by now …

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I couldn't find the slides online but please do link me if you find them, they were a treasure trove of awesome tips and very well laid out!

The talk touched on many things, the following tips are unrelated to each other and in no …