I'm at Open Source Bridge Wednesday through Friday. Wednesday I'm speaking on async, and doing a MongoDB Birds of Feather session.
Derick launching a rocket at 10gen's company meeting in Sonoma last year.
Another concurrency bug in old Python threadlocals. In Python 2.6, no one can hear you scream.
An excellent new O'Reilly book on MongoDB gives detailed, well-thought-out designs for a range of applications.
The O'Reilly book on cutting-edge web development encourages some bad habits but also demonstrates a lot of useful, elegant patterns.