Conference Talks and Poster Sessions

I think I might have more draft posts than published ones. That’s kind of sad. I’m going to try and ease the pain, if only just slightly, right here right now.

I had started writing a post while I attended Big LAMP Camp in Nashville, TN back in early November 2009. The conference and camp were a lot of fun and well attended. I met a lot of great people. The list of speakers shows just goes to show how the traditional LAMP stack has evolved to include languages besides PHP (Ruby and RoR had a strong showing). Although I was the lonely Python developer. My talk was about how Galaxy Zoo is using Python and Hadoop to process large astronomical data sets.

More recently I traveled to Washington D.C. with other members of the Galaxy Zoo team to the 215th meeting of the American Astronomical Society. There I presented a poster on the same topic.