BarCamp London Was Champion

03 SEP

I’ve just got back from a grueling couple of days at BarCamp London and I have to say it’s been one of the best events I’ve been to. I always enjoy going to conferences and have found nearly all of them valuable in one way or another but the informal approach and relatively small numbers gave the event a very two-way feel. Everyone of the sessions I went to was interesting and every conversation was valuable. I’ve came away with an enormous amount of tidbits of information, ideas and inspiration. Some discussions I had there have caused me to almost completely change the focus of my forthcoming presentation on Unobtrusive Ajax at RailsConf but it’ll definitely be for the better.

The notable talks for me came where Matt Webb’s presentation and discussion on the web apps of the future, All I Learnt About Programming I Learnt From Typography and the incredibly unpractical but entertaining presentation about 3D in JavaScript (which was quite impressive).

It was great to meet up with the Brit Rubists and JavaScript people in attendance and share a few ideas. The weekend finished with a few beers in the Curzon Cinema bar with Jonathan and Luke from Agile Evolved and Damien Tanner and alot of conversation about music, weird technology and good shit like that. All in all, excellent. Thanks to Ben, Ian, Paul and Murray for sorting it all out. I’ll definitely be there next year.