Kiwi Foo

Last weekend I was lucky enough to attend Kiwi Foo Camp, 3 days of hanging out with interesting geeks talking about interesting things. Rather than spend my time selling rails to everyone I could meet, I made a conscious effort to attend sessions outside my ‘circle of comfort’. While the evangelist in me still managed to escape at least once, on the whole I kept to the strategy.

The highlights for me were:

• Speaking with Robert O’ Callahan about gecko, caching and fetching external javascripts. More about that some time soon.
• Talking with Ben Goodger about how firefox handles the conflicting demands of plugin authors and core-refactorings. At topic pretty relevant to rails.
• Meeting local and international Perl guys, while I’m not a perl programmer, I really enjoyed hearing their perspective on the issues we have in common.
• Listening to Artur Bergman’s talking on ‘Fucking big Websites’. He’s the only person I’ve met who swears more than DHH, Zed Shaw and myself combined, and the material was good too. Best of luck with the surgery Artur.

Kudos to Nat, Janine and Russell Brown who put on a fantastic event, and to Mahurangi College for being such gracious hosts.

Oh yeah, the Maserati was awesome