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Sun 09.07.08 - Julia Elman at DjangoCon 2008.

Sun 09.07.08 - Day 2 at DjangoCon. Live blogging below the fold. :o)

Sat 09.06.08 - Flickr's Cal Henderson gave the best talk of the day at DjangoCon 2008. Cal's slides were full of win, esp. this one of Steve Marshall.

The transcript of Cal's keynote is in the More / Continue Reading section.

* Lines for the Men's Room and no lines for the Ladies. This makes the ladies happy that the usual tables are turned.

* The loos' seats at Building 40 of the Googleplex are heated! I have never met a warmed toilet seat before. The lap of luxury, indeed.

* Speaking of ladies, out of 200 Con attendees there are over 20 of us here. Better ratios than the RailsEdge 2007 in Chicago or the Rich Web Experience that I dropped into last Sept in San Jose.

Go Django Go! Now go out and get more ladies involved in web dev!

* Speaking of male heavy tech conferences, the upside is that there is plenty of eye candy if you prefer the gents. Slightly geeky eye candy, but delightful nonetheless.

* Translating Deep Geek: In Java all the dense, insider only names for things seem to be about African large mammals and their lifeways. In Rails, they are just dense and opaque acronyms and some names reflecting birds and their lifeways. In Django the dense, insider naming conventions are jazz greats or musical references (Django, Satchmo, Banjo, etc). The question remains will Django branch naming out to the lifeways of jazz musicians (Touring, Heroin, Speakeasy, etc.)?

* The amusing part of the Googleplex is the large number of signs with RULES (emphasis on the EMPHATIC nature of the signs for information that normally should be common sense) printed on 8.5x11" white paper that are everywhere. Some examples:
"PLEASE No table tennis during tech talks" (The ping pong table has 3 signs on it and 1 next to it on a file cabinet)
"No Wire" (This sign is in blue with a white circle and line through it and it is next to a wireless router. Abstractly bizarre.)

Sat 09.06.08 - I am at the DjangoCon at the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif. Per usual, I will be live blogging the event, please click on the "Continue Reading" link to get my transcript/notes.

I am now off to drive up to the San Francisco Bay Area to go to the DjangoCon 2008 that will be hosted at the Googleplex in Mountain View tomorrow & Sunday.

I am excited to be attending DjangoCon, Saturday night's Django 1.0 Release Party, and to visit the Googleplex for the first time. I had planned on staying up in San Francisco on Sunday night to have dinner with friends and generally wind down the weekend, but...

This morning I got a lovely email invitation asking if I wanted to attend the Nokia Open Lab* this upcoming week in Helsinki. Of course I said, "Yes, yes, yes!"

From the invite:

"The latest [Nokia Workshop] being a new annual workshop that hopes to involve an eclectic mix of the online community in a discussion of what the future holds for everything from mobile technology to media creation."

It will be a great whirlwind in the course of 8 days, all in the name of mobile and web creation! w00t!

* Big Thanks to Charlie for helping me out with the real name of the Nokia Open Lab event. As usual, Super Charlie to the Rescue.

Thurs 09.04.08 - Pup outside of the Pike.

Thurs 09.04.08 - My Favorite invention of the week : Champagne in a Can. Thanks, Sofia!

Wed 09.03.08 - Scruffy and the Labradoodle at Dog Beach.