The Blog From Hell

After much hassling and tossing with the everybody from the United States Consulate through travel agents and several airlines – things are finally official.This coming Thursday I am leaving for San Francisco, which I will reach on Friday morning. During the following week I will be in a workshop for a customer with several other developers, which is the main reason for my going there.As a little bonus, Silvia's airmiles means she can join me there, so the weekend, and the evenings will be spent in that most glorious of states: hugging the woman I love. If any of my net.friends.list.members are in SFO at the time, pop me an e-mail and we'll go have some beers one evening.

Headed out to ((barcampjozi)) today with Denis and Jared. The day started off much funlly with a screeing of ((elephants dream)). Shortly afterward, Denis talked briefly about Haiti and handed a bunch out. In a bizarre first ever occurrence – one of our fellow geeks actually made us sign his copies – all three of them – that was cool.Then I handed out OpenLab disks for the break-the-beta session, got a bit of usefull feedback -and the likelihood of more to follow as people play with it. In this regard, look out for a surprize in the next few weeks. For now, my lips are sealed. To me the most interesting sessions was ((Mike Stopforth)), the web-2.0 addict whose indepth knowledge actually converted me a bit – hence the newly added digg and del.icio.us buttons up top (use them please), and ((Danie Roux)) who has a knack for conveying the energy of eXtreme Programming I had not hitherto encountered. I've known Danie for many years, we were at Varsity and in PLUG together – and we still meet up now and then, but this was the first time I saw him present. I loved it. I've been a fan of XP for years, and Danie has gotten very good at conveying that something that makes it fun. I took a bunch of pics which I will upload on Monday.