Life is grand

TwitterCamp is an Adobe Apollo app. that displays a lovely view of your Twitter feed. Useful for Barcamps and other events where you want to display the buzz of the event.

Barcamp Dublin has been announced for the 21st of April 2007. Hope to see you there.

Barcamp Schedule

Originally uploaded by Irish Typepad.

BarCamp South East (of Ireland) happened this past Saturday and it seemed like a success. A fair number of people turned up, most speakers did their bit and there was a good buzz about the place. Well done to Tom and Keith for setting it all up. The juggling balls, and juggling master, was a great idea.

My talk, Ruby on Rails: Outside of its comfort zone, didn’t go down too well. The problem was that out of the 7 people listening to me only 1 had done any serious amount of Ruby on Rails. I had to scale it way back and even then it was too technical. Hopefully those who listened got the general idea though that Ruby on Rails works fine outside of its defaults (e.g. Oracle databases, non-Rails database naming standards, non-Apache/Linux hosting etc.) It also didn’t help that most of the technical people at the BarCamp were tied up at the WordPress.com talk which ran overtime. Next time I’ll pick a less technical topic.

The no shows

Originally uploaded by Joe Drumgoole.

Seems like Barcamp Ireland 2006 was a great day. A pity I didn’t make it. (Thanks to Chris for the photo link.)

Tom Corcoran contacted me yesterday and mentioned that he’d be happy to offer the TSSG or WIT facilities as a venue for BarCamp Ireland.

I work at the TSSG building and it is a lovely location with a great boardroom and other meeting rooms. WIT is also a good venue.

I have updated the BarCamp page but thought I’d mention it here too so that it is noticed.