Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Demo Camp 4 - Toronto
Hello one and all!
I've switched formats, as I became unispired and disillusioned with my last attempt at keeping an active blog about all my development woes and solutions to those woes. This is the new format and we will see how it goes over the next few months.
So, first off I was at Demo Camp 4 (http://barcamp.pbwiki.com/TorCampDemoCamp4) and I am struck by how large it has grown from the last one I attended. There were close to 150 people from the GTA (Greater Toronto Area for you out of towners). Where the last Code Camp / Demo Camp was held at the tucows headquarters (King & Duffern) in a cramped area (no fault to tucows as it was the largest area they had and I dont think they were expecting so many people to attend) this time it was held at the MaRS building at 101 Collage St. ( MaRS Site ) it has recently been renovated (the building not mars! teraforming takes longer [sorry geek humor]) and the space that we were assembled in was great! I have a feeling that in the future we may have to take on even larger spaces.
So the presentations were very good as usual, and also very fun to participate in. I had passed the word out to the student of a class that I help coach at Ryerson University, also I let the Professor know about the event and he was in attendance. We met with some of the University of Toronto guys (they were at the other code camps too) and we hope to hook up with them in the near future and discuss some mutual intrests in Software Development.
I have rattled on for a bit about some high level stuff, my goal with this new blog is to provide an ongoing diary of the problems I encounter (technical and other) while working as a software developer. The next blog will be about the Amazon Web Service API's and why I think they are not all they are cracked up to be. I'll show some issues I have encounterd while trying to integrate them in the publishing platform I'm working on code named Portal Prophet.
So long for now....
I've switched formats, as I became unispired and disillusioned with my last attempt at keeping an active blog about all my development woes and solutions to those woes. This is the new format and we will see how it goes over the next few months.
So, first off I was at Demo Camp 4 (http://barcamp.pbwiki.com/TorCampDemoCamp4) and I am struck by how large it has grown from the last one I attended. There were close to 150 people from the GTA (Greater Toronto Area for you out of towners). Where the last Code Camp / Demo Camp was held at the tucows headquarters (King & Duffern) in a cramped area (no fault to tucows as it was the largest area they had and I dont think they were expecting so many people to attend) this time it was held at the MaRS building at 101 Collage St. ( MaRS Site ) it has recently been renovated (the building not mars! teraforming takes longer [sorry geek humor]) and the space that we were assembled in was great! I have a feeling that in the future we may have to take on even larger spaces.
So the presentations were very good as usual, and also very fun to participate in. I had passed the word out to the student of a class that I help coach at Ryerson University, also I let the Professor know about the event and he was in attendance. We met with some of the University of Toronto guys (they were at the other code camps too) and we hope to hook up with them in the near future and discuss some mutual intrests in Software Development.
I have rattled on for a bit about some high level stuff, my goal with this new blog is to provide an ongoing diary of the problems I encounter (technical and other) while working as a software developer. The next blog will be about the Amazon Web Service API's and why I think they are not all they are cracked up to be. I'll show some issues I have encounterd while trying to integrate them in the publishing platform I'm working on code named Portal Prophet.
So long for now....
# posted by Unknown @ 9:08 PM 
