Notes

CodeCon 2005 Trip Report

Reports on individual sessions are available via my weblog:

• CodeCon Day 1
• CodeCon Day 2
• CodeCon Day 3

The talks most relevant to Chandler were:

• Aura, a peer to peer reputation system.
• UltraGleeper^?, a recommendation engine for web pages (written in Python no less).
• The i2i identity broker system.

The CodeCon attendees are from a broad spectrum of interests from security to biotechnology. The conference is really a place for people to talk projects which are just starting to get going. This might have been a good venu for us to present about Chandler

I did talk to a few folks who were interested in Chandler, but their interested was general and not specific, at least not yet.

Capabilities and Python

Ben Laurie has been looking at capabilities for dynamic languages, and appears to have found a workable method. His method involves running capability enhanced code through a precompilation step which then generates regular code in the host language. RIght now he has this working in Perl and believes that he can get it to work in Python. This is good news because we need a way to solve the downloadable code security problem.