Daily Archives: October 14, 2007

About my Barcamp Atlanta posts

This is just a quick note to anyone confused by the flurry of posts I’ve put online recently.  Barcamp Atlanta was a two day event hosted at the Advanced Technology Development Center at Georgia Tech.  It was a great event gather approximately 100 hundred computer programmers, technology enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, investors, sponsors, and web developers.  The […]
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Not-Live from Barcamp – Day 2 – Session 6 [for me] Future of Democracy – Social Media

Presenter: Tim Moenk OK at this point I was getting tired — hitting the Barcamp ceiling for information absorption.  Also the room was packed and awkward for typing in so here’s a post-session recap: Tim presents some thoughts on the quad-umverate of Social Software, Gaming, Law, and UI.  Basically he contends that the increasing wave […]
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Live from Barcamp – Day 2 – Session 5 [for me] Facebook apps 101

Presenter: Sandro Turriate Whoa! – a real presentation with slides and everything! The paraphrase: Sandro new to facebook, relatively. It’s a platform — you write plug-ins It’s viral.  There is some funding happening, it’s easy to install. 3 steps to app interaction: 1. Facebook contacts appserver 2. App server uses facebook api 3. App server […]
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Live from Barcamp – Day 2 – Session 4 [for me] Ruby on Rails panel

Looks like just two panelists.  Didn’t get the names. Starting discussion with scaling issues of mongrel server.  I was expecting more of a discussion of rails, pros and cons, this seems to be more of a discussion of memory use on the server and scalability.  Database load failed to scale for Twitter, sooner than the […]
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Live from Barcamp – Day 2 – Session 3 [for me] Google Web Toolkit

Presenter – Robert Cooper Had a good lunch – everything food-wise that you can possibly put on a stick – finishing with chocolate covered cheesecake on a stick.  Who can complain about that? Now sitting in Cooper’s session on Google Web Toolkit – a Java to javascript compiler.  It’s certain to be way over my […]
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Live from Barcamp – Day 2 – Session 2 [for me] Second Life

Presenter – Michael Ivey Blow by blow – sort of: What is the value? Michael finds that using 2nd Life makes for richer distance communication, as an alternate to just chat or other non-visual communication.   Virtual marketing — Nissan had virtual cars to drive around and they came out of a giant vending machine.  Other […]
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